With the theatrical market for B-movies now all but extinct, some HK filmmakers are following the example set by their Japanese counterparts and switching to digital video. CRIME OF A BEAST is one such production and the medium in which it was produced is the only novelty this dreary, hypocritical exercise has to offer. Assigned to track and apprehend a serial rapist, Inspector Wong (Chan Kwok-bong) tries to question the latest victim, psychiatrist / screenwriter (!) Mazy Hui (UN BAISER VOLE's Natalie Ng Man-yan, badly miscast), but she is too distraught to offer any leads. Flashbacks reveal her assailant to be Sin Ho-fun (Samuel Leung Cheuk-moon), a homely, put-upon crew member, whom Mazy tried to help via a free discussion session in her office. The paranoid and delusional Sin soon misinterprets one of her comments and, later that day, drugs and rapes the woman, the first in a series of assaults he perpetrates. Once she has recovered, Mazy and Wong join forces in order to apprehend Sin, who has now graduated to murder.
CRIME OF A BEAST is one of those exploitation films that tries to justify its excesses by making a half-assed condemnation of some societal ill. Director David Lau Tai-wai would have us believe that he is doing just that (via a post-script crawl that offers up an incredibly simplistic bit of psychology to account for Sin's sociopathic actions), while including numerous shots down tops and up skirts, and a sequence where Mazy kisses and fondles a female patient, while the latter is hypnotized (all in the name of therapy, of course). The procedural aspects of the plot are completely unconvincing and the final reel concludes with a series of events so absurd, one can scarcely believe that they were actually shot. Grace Lam Nga-sze and Wong Yat-fei have supporting roles but the Joey Wang and Stanley Tong listed in the credits are not the ones you are thinking of.
For no clear reason, the English subtitles are missing part or all of the last word in a number of sentences, and an intertitle is left solely in Chinese.
Hong Kong Digital
Hilarante, no hay por dónde cogerla...para colmo, los subtítulos (vete a saber por qué) en las segundas líneas quedan palabras a mitad o faltan, pero se puede seguir bien. Ejemplo (a no seguir) de mezclar thriller criminal con unos policías peores que los de
The Untold Story pero sin gracia, un
psycho que parece un clon del feo de los Hermanos Calatrava, sexploitation, psicología baratucha y didactismo cutre, aparte de unas interpretaciones simplemente risibles, sin olvidar una banda sonora como mínimo de ascensor...¡Vamos, todo un
must see .gif ":P")
! Esto...¿qué por qué posteo esta
joyita? Pues porque en la variedad está el gusto y la diversión, y porque este tipo de
cine también tiene sus fans. ¡Disfrutadla!
Saludos!
P.D. Lo más currao es la portada, supongo para engatusar a los incautos que no saben lo que les espera
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