Lost Souls is a grim, incredibly heavy handed piece of disturbing exploitation cinema with a political subtext and is easily the most outrageous thing to come out of the Shaw Studios. The film follows a group of illegal immigrants from mainland China who, trying to escape the evil of communism, attempt to illegally enter Hong Kong. They are raided by the police and only three escape. However, they soon run into a group of vicious human smugglers led by Hok (Chan Shen), who imprison them along with a bunch of other poor mainlanders and put them through a regiment of torture and sexual abuse that would make the Marquis De Sade blush to try and get the phone numbers of their relatives in Hong Kong. The film features everything from a young woman having candle wax dripped all over her naked body to a woman being raped while spun around; to Hok haggling with a grotesquely obese pimp as he tries to sell the women to him, writing his prices on the girls’ asses, to a homosexual sodomy/birthday sequence involving Hok, who rubs lube on his poor victim before reaming him up the ass in a sequence that makes Deliverance look tame. Finally, the poor rapee gets sick of this treatment and kills Hok. As the remaining smugglers are wondering who should replace Hok, the refugees decide to rise up and take on the smugglers.
J. L. Carrozza / kfccinema
Simplemente brutal.
* En el CD1 hay un pequeño defecto, alrededor del minuto 19 la imagen se pixela y se congela unos segundos, pero se adelanta hasta el minuto 19:40 y solucionado. De este film existe también una versión .DAT. Aún la estoy bajando, así que no tengo info sobre la misma.
* En el link adjunto a la imagen la etiquetan como CAT. III, creo que se puede considerar una 'precursora' pero yo la veo más como xploitation y de la dura.
Saludos!
P.D. Añadida encuesta. 'Imprescindible' sobretodo interesante para ver 'ciertos' derroteros que estaba tomando el cine HK.
