Yi Boh Lai Beng Duk (1996)
Genre: Horror / Comedy
Duration: 98 minuten
Alternative titles: Ebola Syndrome / Yibola Bing Du / 伊波拉病毒
Country:
Hong-Kong
Directed by: Herman Yau
Stars: Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Vincent Wan Yeung-Ming and Shing Fui-On
IMDb score:
6,5 (5.481)
Releasedate: 15 June 1996
Yi Boh Lai Beng Duk plot
A waiter in a restaurant kills his boss and mutilates his wife and flees to South Africa, where he goes back to work in a restaurant. There he rapes a Zulu woman infected with the Ebola virus...
Actors and actresses
Kai San
Kei, restaurant owner
Har
Ma
Lily Chow
Sergent Yeung
Annoyed Husband
Kei's Wife
Reviews & comments
Lennert
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- 2412 messages
- 1400 votes
After a lot of stories on the internet I expected a lot more gore. The film works mainly because of its completely monstrous first 40 minutes in which sex and bizarre dialogues follow each other in rapid succession. Also the first time I have seen sex in a Hong Kong film, usually they are a bit more prudish than here when it comes to nudity. Also immediately completely distasteful scenes, which only increase the hilarity.
However, the film collapses dramatically from the moment the main character returns to Hong Kong. No hilarious dialogues and the gore and nudity are almost gone. This makes for a rather long-winded ending, which unfortunately undermines the brilliant beginning.
Still a very nice film, but it could have been a lot more over the top than it was.
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Woland
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- 4810 messages
- 3826 votes
Herman Yau was there in the nineties when a mysterious, bloody disease broke out in Africa. Good material for a bad taste film, he must have thought, and he is right about that. Now I saw The Untold Story of his not so long ago, and there too Anthony Wong is the lead actor, in a very similar role and also with very similar scenes. And to be honest, I had a great time with Ebola Syndrome, but The Untold Story is the better and also somewhat grimmer film.
Now Ebola Syndrome also has a fair amount of bad taste; not only the concept, but Anthony Wong is also a very dirty bastard (smearing and all) who murders, rapes and is a reprehensible jerk in every way. Perfect to have such a ranting monkey in the lead role. Just like in The Untold Story he murders several people and then serves them as food in a Chinese restaurant, but here it's actually quite tame. On top of that, he's also spreading Ebola, although he does so unconsciously at first. It's entertaining nonsense, but it's also fine that it's over after an hour and a half, because the humor and the bad taste aren't that great. And you don't need horror anyway.
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Fisico
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- 10039 messages
- 5398 votes
Very amateurish film with also very long boring parts. In between, but then mainly from separate scenes, they try to shock something. First of all with sex or rape scenes. However, they were not that interesting. In addition, we are dealing with a psychopath who has a few deaths on his record. Emotions - except anger - he does not know. He always acts very brutally here, with a lot of blood flowing.
I also found it very incoherent at times. That Ebola story, for example, was unnecessary. You already had a great theme and they would have done better to work that out than to add a few more subplots. That's why the film comes across as chaotic with those scenes in the bush (the cheetah and that in the village).
All in all very poorly developed. The antagonist is extremely arrogant jerk, fine character in itself, but rather weakly acted and brought forward.
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