HUMAN PORK CHOP: Well now, I'm just not too sure what to make of
this movie. It's another one of those heart-pounding,
bile-churning, vomit-inducing Oriental Category 3 "BODY HORROR"
flicks and it's aim is to inflict as much pain as possible to the
victim of the movie... as well as the viewer. Director BENNIE CHAN
got it going right from the start though. The Hong Kong police bust
in, find the boiled remains of the deceased victim in question, and
nab the suspected evil-doers (led by the bloodthristy pimp Hok,
perfectly played by actor WAYNE LAI). So through their confessions,
the tragic story is now told to us. It's a sobbering, very powerful
film with the subject matter being of the most extreme in nature. I
will say that I do really LOVE the name of the movie but watching
it is, indeed, a totally different disgusting animal altogether.
It's not nearly as graphic in it's malicious realism as the popular
Japanese snuff-wannabe series, GUINEA PIG, but it's pretty damn
painful punishment to view none-the-less. Yet I suppose that if
you're a true sadist, then you're into seeing a group of some
really unlikable people (let's do this in degrees shall we) kidnap,
mistreat, humiliate, degrade, torment, hurt, beat, burn, torture,
murder, and finally mutilate another human being for a hour and a
half, then this just might be your cup of tea. It wasn't mine at
the time. And the toilet scene was almost enough to send me spewing
chunks just from simply watching it, no smell or touch needed.
FUCK! It's something I can NEVER "un-see" and really made me wonder
why I ever wanted to watch this filthy mess to begin with. Those
horrid scenes of feces eating lingered in my mind LONG after the
film had actually ended. EMILY KWAN, you're certainly an actress
that deserves a Golden Dragon (the Chinese equivalent of an Oscar
Award) because you made it all seem so damn real from the first
beating, to the "human plunger" scene, and right down to the final
inhuman violation and ultimate visceration of your body. And
believe it or not, they say that this film (along with two others,
entitled THERE'S A SECRET IN MY SOUP and THE UNTOLD STORY aka HUMAN
MEAT PIES) is based on an actual true crime event in Chinese
history (known as the "Hello Kitty Murder") so that makes it even
that much worse and just goes to show you how wickedly perverse and
evil some people can really be. And that, my friends, just might be
the greatest horror of them all.
-Steve