Ebola Syndrome (1996)

Director: Herman Yau
Stars: Anthony Wong


Review:
The chance is you probably do not know this movie, except you are a HongKong-er like me. But alongside Riki-Oh (1991), this is one of the best cult movies from Hong Kong.

The movie starts with Ah-Kai (meaning Chicken in cantonese) fucking his boss' wife, and get caught shortly thereafter. He killed his boss and his boss' assistant, and fleed to South Africa, layed low and worked in a Chinese Restaurant. On a trip to an africian tribe to trade for some meat with the restaurant owner, he raped a black girl and caught Ebola virus. The good news is he is immune to Ebola, and the bad news is he gonna flee again and spread the virus to anyone he meet.

The black girl had a seizure while being raped, and Ar-Kei killed her to make her release his dick.

The plot actually also involves survivors from his first murder and the police pursuit, but it doesnt really matter in this movie. This movie is all about this character Ah-Kai. He doesnt eat dog shit but he is a candidate for the filthest person alive. He is even crazier than Mr. Blonde from Reserviour Dog (1991). He tried to burn a girl of maybe 10 years old and told her that burning to death is not painful. He is splitting everywhere, masterbate with a piece of pork meat and make hamburger out of human meat. He doesnt get dirty only on himself but on you also. He make meals in the restaurant using the meat he jerked off last night, and serve the human hamburgers to customers. He never feel sorry or apologize for any deeds he did, but only blaming on others and thinks he is the victim. He is scary that he resembles the normal guy you meet everyday, but with all his secrets revealed.

"It wont fucking hurt burning to Death! (燒撚死, 唔撚痛架!)"

The infection with Ebola virus only makes him more menacing. If he spits on anyone, that person is dead and horribly so. In movies like Outbreak (1995), you know there is a group of scientist taking control of the situation. In this movie, the crazy guy took total control. He went everywhere he wanted and spread the decease everywhere, and the most scary part is he resembles a normal man you meet on street, and you can really imagine this happening right besides of you. This makes the movie so effective in giving you chills.

Pork meat as sex toy. Will Lady Gaga wear this particular one?

In the last review I said that it is dirty that we scared, and this is the reason. Differ from the cool, calm seriel killer that we almost love, we do not want Ar-Kai close to us lesser than 30 feet.