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Untold Story [VHS]

Untold Story [VHS]
Directed by Danny Lee, Herman Yau

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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Lives up to its word
this movie is one that lives up to its a word and is extremely gorey, screwed up, and merciless. i dont remeber his name but the main character makes the story and movie so much more convicncing. the story is pretty good as for gore there not to much but theres a lot! the scnes are horrile theres rape, cannabalism, killing, murdering and other awful things your'll have to see for yourself


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Hey! Thats not what chopsticks are used for !!
Remember those horror movies when the camera pulls away?
You know what I'm talikng about.
Right when the knife's about to fall;
and the camera decides now is the appopriate time to look over at the tile pattern on the bathroom wall.
Remember how cheated you felt?
Well this is the first movie I've personally seen that had me thankful for that squeamish camera.
Not every scene mind you,
Just the ones concerning chopstick rape, and child murder.
In those scenes you don't need to see the violence,
'cause you feel it in your stomach.
There was however an attempted suicide scene shown in full detail;
where our antagonist drags his wrists back & forth
across the jagged edge of a rusted basin.
And when that doesn't seem to cut it,
he decides to tear them open with his teeth.

The story concerns "The Eight Immortals" Chinese Restaurant and its current owner,
(Who just so happens to have to killed the previous owner,and his entire family.)(kids too)
Investigating the case is the most slapstick group of cops this side of "Police Academy"
And when "they" start getting close he starts killing off his staff and grinding them into pork buns.

As good as it is;
the tension in this movie is undermined by its humor.
Every scene with the owner, makes your skin crawl,
however every scene with the detectives tickles your funny bone,
So what you ultimately wind up with is a disjointed feeling,
like you're watching two different movies at once.
It either should have been a comedy or a horror movie, not both.
If the director seriously wanted it to be both,
it should have been seamlessly blended as one.
When this movie tries to make you laugh,
it comes across as feeling kinda cheap
But when it aims to make you cringe,
boy will you be cringing.
Like I said,
there'll be scenes, when you're gonna be thankful the camera bailed out.
And when it doesn't.....
You're gonna wish it was showing you
the pretty tile patterns on the bathroom wall.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Don't Order the Pork Buns !!!





Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - It's Untold for a Reason
This is one of those true stories that most people wish were not true. It's a ghastly tale of an employee at a Chinese restaurant who cheats, murders, and uses the bodies of his victims in his recipes. He was the Jeffrey Dahmer of the Far East. And this movie shows all the gory details, including some things that conventional Hollywood movies avoid. This is a big step beyond the routine horror/screamer cinema fare.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Mind Blowing Cat III Horror Story... One of the Best...
'The Untold Story' is purportedly based on a true story. If that is indeed the case, this film is one of the more horrifying endeavors I have had the pleasure to witness in all my years. Even if it is not, this still quite a film...

Herman Yau directed this HK horror masterpiece masterfully. Anthony Wong (as Kai) gives one of the most convincing psycho performances I have ever encountered (at that's saying a lot)...

The story is a relatively simple one (albeit very effective). At the outset, Kai and his boss have some sort of monetary dispute involving gambling and cheating. An argument ensues, at which point Kai than proceeds to go sickhouse, and kill the man... Fast forward 8 years...

Kai is running a restaurant. Mysteriously, the previous owner and his family are nowhere to be found. As the police and various people begin to inquire about how Kai came into ownership of the restaurant, the questions begin to pile up (as do the missing bodies)...

Kai, being witty as well as psychotic devises a clever and creative way to dispose of the various bodies that he has created. By the way, don't eat the 'pork buns'...

Eventually the local police (who are portrayed as silly, Police Academy-esquire buffoons) become suspicious, leading to the arrest and eventual imprisonment of Kai. Torture and brutality ensue, culminating in a coerced confession presented beautifully and horrifically by Yau...

Much has been made of the violent and wicked nature of this film. Perhaps I am jaded, but I did not find this film to be gratuitously violent. All of the violent and wicked acts depicted were in context, and served the purpose of showing what a monster Kai is..

This may sound like a rather simple film. Plotwise it is. However, the story was well-constructed, and Yau's capable direction keep things moving forward engagingly so. This is a captivating and enthralling story, all the more incredible because it allegedly happened. If you love a good true crime/horror story (and are not of the squeamish variety), you will most likely find this to be a fascinating and well-done film...


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Now This is What I Call a Horror Film!
Fasten your seat belts because you're in for a hell of a ride of no holds barred horror! The story of the film centers around the "Eight Immortals Restaurant", where a gambling addicted, fugitive, psychotic cook slaughters his employer and his family to death only to declared himself as the new owner. He would then murder anyone to avoid suspicion including murdering and chopping up his employees and turning them into "human roast pork buns" where he would then sell and feed it to his patrons including the police, who are investigating the whereabouts of the previous owner and his family. Warning....This film does not shy away from violence! Head bashings, human torching, eye gouging, stabbings, rape, chopsticks inserted into female genitelia, throat slashings, beheadings, chopped up bodies,etc. Of all the horror films I've seen and I've seened plenty...this film went a little to far. How far? The sequence of the restaurant's previous owner and his family including their six children being chopped up in gruesome detail, would've alone had any American director in the U.S. shot to death. Believe me...it's that revolting. Although the violence is way over the top...the film is supported by a good script, good production values and an excellent performance by Anthony Wong as "the Bunman". Two thumbs up!



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, HONG KONG STYLE
Primarily I expected this film to be rather stupid as many of the flicks of this genre are. Gory and shocking but stupid. Well, it wasn't stupid. It was pretty serious-minded unexpectedly. I can say the movie is directed well and the acting really surprises sometimes. Expecting it to be extremely graphic and shocking I was a bit baffled at first - there was a couple of gross scenes in the beginning and then nothing. In general the first part of the film is a little slow-paced and seemingly dull, but you definately have to wait for the second one. That's when everything happens. Including the part with the whole family murder which is done just gruesome. I couldn't imagine it'd be like that.
Now I can say "The Untold Story" tops many other similar films regarding its viciousness and brutality, the music adds a lot of mood being one of the key instruments here.
Truly, the story of people being murdered, dismembered and then fed to others as "barbecue pork buns" shocks and stays with you for a long time. The only things I disliked here were those humorous moments involving the police - strange jokes and silly acting. Without all these the film would be as twice as powerful.
And for collectors I'd advise the German edition by Raptor. It's a limited box-edition with chinese chopsticks and two plastic "barbecue human buns" to freak out somebody who saw the film with you!


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - A near perfect serial killer/cannibal flick
"Untold Story" (Original Cantonese title (romanized); Baat sin faan dim ji yan yuk cha siu baau) certainly goes to the extremes of serial killer horror. The violent scenes in this movie are some of the worst I can recall ever having seen. And I'm not quite unexperienced on the matter; besides having seen nearly all mainstream horror/slasher/gore-films in existence (which generally has relatively limited amounts of violence) I've also seen the gist of the more notorious cult films of the horror/slasher/gore/exploitation genres (including, but far from limited to; "Cannibal Holocaust","Cannibal Ferox", "Salò", "Bad Taste", "Braindead", "Pink Flamengos","I spit on your corpse, I piss on your grave", The Guinea Pig series, The Virgin trilogy, "Evil Dead Trap", "Bloodsucking Freaks", "House of 1000 corpses", "Ichi the Killer", "Kichiku Dai Enkai", "Men behind the Sun", "The Devil's Rejects", "Murder Set Pieces"). Now, while these movies range from exploitation comedy/trash to slasher/serial killer films they all more or less contain elements of violence to a greater or lesser extent. So, in all humbleness, I should be entitled to comment on the violence "Untold Story" portrays with at least some credibility.

(WARNING; MAYOR SPOILERS)
The story, set in Macau, revolves around a psychopatic cook/restaurant worker, Wong, who has killed his boss including all of his nuclear family over a game of mahjong. Wong "wins" by cheating, making him insist he is entitled to some 183,000$ (Hong Kong dollar). The following dispute thus results in his murder of boss Cheng and his entire family (though this first is shown at the end of the movie, in retrospect). Wong is also involved in a previous murder in Hong Kong, as we see in the opening scene. As will be a familiar method of disposal later in the movie, he grinds the flesh of the bodies and uses them in "human pork buns", serving them to customers. After some limbs wash up at a nearby shore in Macau, the police start investigating the matter. The police investigation makes up about half of the film, in effect adding a definite crime/thriller element. It is also through the investigation crew, led by Officer Lee, that the comic relief is given, with the three clumsy and horny guys (always checking out Officer Lee's newest "girlfriend" and the self-confident Bo who don't seem to be taking their investigation too seriously. Later Wong also kills his two employees before he is caught and incarcerated, facing a harsh prison environment and leading to his confession and later suicide.

The violent and/or gory scenes in the film are;
1. The immolation of a man in the opening scene (the Hong Kong murder)
2. The disembowelment and dismemberment of a pig
3. The killing, disembowelment and dismemberment of a cook/waiter, and the grinding of his meat and offal into pork bun filling.
4. The graphic rape and murder of a female cashier/waiter, killed by insertion of chopsticks into her vagina.
5. The graphic murder of Wong's boss Cheng Lam and his family. Cheng's youngest son (at about 3-4 years old) has his throat slit, Cheng's wife is stabbed in her stomach, two daughters (some 7-10 years old) are slit in the throat, one graphically decapitated on a table.
6. The killing of Chan Lai Chun, Cheng Lam's mother in law, and the following dismemberment of the whole family

(SPOILERS END HERE)

Despite the somewhat inferior acting by the police investigation team as a result of the so called "comic relief" that is supposed to give, both Wong's and his victims' acting is irreproachable. Wong himself is so convincing as a creepy sociopath that he easily could be mistaken for a real one. As for the violence, it's seriously graphic, and will be disturbing for anyone unaccustomed to cult film violence or violence in general. Sure, you will find films that contain much stronger sexual violence ("Murder Set Pieces", "Irreversible", "August Underground Mordum"), more gore ("Bad Taste", "Braindead"), more dismemberment-in-action ("Flower of Flesh and Blood") and far more explicit cannibalism ("Cannibal Holocaust"), but "Untold Story" combines these elements with a totally believable plot, redeeming qualities and great editing. Thus, hadn't it been for the stupid, so called "comedy" that the police investigation team at times provided, this would be a perfect "serial killer/insinuated cannibalism"-movie. Especially if the investigation team would be as interesting as in, say, "Se7en" or "Saw", and the atmosphere had been more sombre. Yet it still ranks high among "Se7en", "American Psycho", "Silence of the Lambs" and "Natural Born Killers" in quality and entertainment value, IMHO, even though it surely is a different experience. Moreover, this isn't simply a gore fest exploitation flick; there's also insinuated cannibalism as both several customers and the investigation crew themselves have a treat to Wong's special "human pork buns", which also adds a dark wit to the story that I found appealing.

If you're a fan of horror in general and/or cannibal serial killer movies with crime/thriller elements in special, you should definitively give this one a try. If you like this one you can try "Dumplings" as well, another Chinese cannibal film, revolving around a beauty expert offering special dumplings containing aborted human foetal meat to alleviate symptoms of aging. All in all, "Untold Story" is an impressing effort of a serial killer movie that in my opinion manages to incorporate the good qualities more often found in mainstream cinema (a proper plot, in part convincing acting, fitting editing etc.) and underground/exploitation cinema (excessive ( i.e. satisfying amounts of) violence, gore and limbs) to a successful end product. Both in-your-face shocking and indirectly disturbing. Thumbs up.



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Great!
There seems to be some controversy about whether or not this is a true story. I can only speculate but I tend to believe this is a true story due to the straight-forward nature of it. There are no wild twists or exaggerated story line. Just a guy who went on a killing rampage attempting to take over his boss's business. The police figure out it's Bunman without him being to deceive the facts in some elaborate storyline. The movie is pretty much straight forward violence from beginning to end. Guy commits violent crime. Police arrest him and do violence on him in jail. etc. It seems to me this is pretty much how something like this would occur and it is likely a made-up story would have events that didn't fall in such a natural predictible fashion as they would in real life.

The film not embellishing the storyline does work in its favor by not diverting attention from the violence. The acting is top-notch and is perhaps the only convincing "psycho killer" acting job I have ever seen.

The film also works surprisingly well in having a lot of side comedic aspects mostly involving the police. I can't explain (and probably can't understand) why this itself didn't divert attention from the violent realism of the story.

That is not to say the violence is realistic. I don't know of any film that has portrayed dismemberment in graphic realism and this film uses the standard techniques of having the chopping occur offscreen with blood flying into frame and onto objects. But as far as the limitations of showing the "uncreatable", this movie was as effective as any I've seen in this area.

The thing that really carries this movie is Anthony Wong's acting. This is what I would imagine a real life "Bunman" (if there really was one) to behave.

I don't think a movie like this would be made in the U.S. even by the most independent of independent producers. One scene is particular has Bunman mutilating an entire family with young child actors with Wong acting in the most intense psychotic way possible in a room full of severed body parts and blood, as well as the children being splattered with blood.

This movie is enjoyable to watch mostly because it is fresh due to there not being others that I know of that are anywhere similar.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The Ultimate Slasher/Gore Flick!
I never thought a film could be made like the 1992
Chinese presentation of "The Untold Story". Let me
start by saying that this is the only film in all my
years of moviegoing that actually nauseated me. Give
me credit. I have a very strong stomach. Maybe what
makes it so horrific is that it is based on true
events. I thought I had seen it all...now (maybe) I
have. I love horror, gore, frightening tales of
terror, but this one crosses the line. It is
shocking...to say the least...and it doesn't start out
that way.

The crew of police officers and detectives in this
film are a bunch of comedians. They are constantly
ribbing one another...find excuses not to work...and I
thought I was in store for a Chinese rendition of Mel
Gibson and Danny Glover in "Lethal Weapon". In
afterthought, their comedic relief is to take pressure
off the gruesome antics of a psychotic killer Anthony
Wong, who won Honk Kong's Film Award for Best Actor in
1993. Best actor? This guy is so convincing he
scared the hell out of me.

While I find it just as hard to understand how such a
film could be made, I was more perplexed over the fact
that I WATCHED IT! Wong is a true psycho-maniac.
There are moments that are simply
disgusting...overboard...unthinkable. And, of course,
I had to buy the ORIGINAL UNCUT VERSION! Guess what?
There's nothing "uncut" about it...if you get my
drift. Words of wisdom:

Stay away from the barbecued pork buns and beware of
the chopsticks.

If you're brave enough to watch this, you may want to
be selective as to who (if anyone) joins you. I've
seen "Silence of the Lambs", "Dahmer", "Portrait of a
Serial Killer", "Bundy", "Helter Skelter"...and a host
of deranged serial killer flicks, but this one takes
the cake...or, better yet, "cuts" it.

In the gruesome serial killer genre', this one is a
"10". If you can't handle this type of flick, I
recommend "Shrek 2"...your side will split from
laughter...not via a meat cleaver.


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - fun for the whole family
well what can I say about this film that hasn't been said? Its violent(very very violent) twisted, gory and if your a little sick yourself a bit funny. It does shock(made my freind get all queezy and sweaty) but it lacks substance and any likeable characters. If your a shock buff this will be a treat for you everyone else should prob rent a tarintino flick:)




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