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...Mood, shmood - Hong Kong movies, always in a hurry, don?t take long to put the horror goods on the table. Consider the first 10 minutes of Lau Hung-chuen?s sublimely titled ?Devil Fetus,? for me one of the exhumed treasures of ITMFG. At an auction, a woman buys a jade vase without realizing there?s a devil inside. That night, her sister holds the vase in her lap and gets, as wonderfully euphemistic Hong Kong subtitles usually put it, ?comfortable.? The devil assumes a sort of protoplasmic human form, enters the sister and impregnates her. Her husband walks...
...response to the furor over a cover photo of a movie star photographed topless against her will during a 1990 kidnapping. The star is believed to be Carina Lau, whose long-time boyfriend is Tony Leung Chiu-wai, star of Wong Kar-wai?s rapturous romance ?In the Mood for Love...
...homage to this appetite for destruction, the mad lads at Subway Cinema have commandeered Anthology Film Archives in New York City this weekend for an 11-film binge titled ?In the Mood for Gore.? The series may sound like a nostalgia nosh for Democrats still smarting from the 2000 election. But the subtitle explains all: ?22 Years of Deliciously Evil Hong Kong Cinema.? The bestial festival, which runs through Thursday the 14th, assembles films famous (Samo Hung?s ?Close Encounters of the Spooky Kind,? Ricky Lau?s ?Mr. Vampire?), infamous (?The Untold Story,? ?Dr. Lamb?) and unfamous (?Devil Fetus...
...steaming caustic poured into it. He writhes in pain and explodes naked from the earth as the film?s title flashes on the screen. It?s like ?Jackass? in Cantonese, but faster, funnier, and with a little craft up its Merlin sleeve: an efficient mood-stoker...
...Subway collective might have chosen other films in this mood. Ng See-yuen?s 1982 ?Seeding of a Ghost? was a worthily loopy predecessor to ?Devil Fetus.? Wong Chang-yeung?s ?Holy Virgin vs. the Evil Dead? (1991) is up there with ?Eternal Evil of Asia? as a spiked cocktail of Taoism, terror and tits. ?Run and Kill,? which Billy Tang made between ?Dr. Lamb? and ?Red to Kill,? matches those films in deranged fury with its tale of a fat shlub (Kent Cheng) whose wife is killed, and child char-broiled, by every triad goon and psycho slaverer west...