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  • Love to Kill

  • We're Going to Eat You

  • Love Battlefield

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Love to Kill

Most of the cast of Untold Story team up to see if they can do it again but this time giving Sleeping With the Enemy vibes. Turns out the answer is, yes.

We're Going to Eat You

Perhaps stung that his first film, The Butterfly Murders, had been accused of being overly-intellectual, Tsui Hark swung the other way, making We’re Going to Eat You overly-visceral. A gut-cruncher grotesquerie, it's one great big bloody joke — there's the scent of a political subtext to get intellectuals to lean in for a closer look, only to get a squirt of blood in the eye. A fast and grotty roughie written on the fly and shot on the cheap, in…

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Evil Fade

If you’re looking for a good movie, this isn’t it. But if you’re looking for a movie where Anthony Wong eats dinner while sitting on the toilet, a dead dad ghost offers up relationship advice like “Women are inferior. Kill her quick,” and a spirit saucer gets discovered during a Dance Dance Revolution session, welcome home. Movies like Evil Fade teach us the hard truths of life: you can’t be King of Tutors if you’re also busy being King of Maniacs.

Love Battlefield

In 2004, producer Joe Ma was King of the Yuppie Romance and Soi Cheang was a mean-spirited, up-and-coming director of low budget horror movies. This is their team-up no one asked for, a rock solid, unpretentious, hard-hearted thriller that does its job, tells its story, counts up its dead, then rolls the credits. No lectures, no moralizing, no lessons about life. Just sheer mayhem.