While technically a Category III due to cartoonish, over-the-top gore, Riki-Oh is a cult classic worldwide. Set in a privatized prison in 2001, a superhuman prisoner fights corrupt guards.
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This film is notorious for a scene involving a pineapple bun (you will never eat one again) and a level of misanthropy that is almost comical. It answers the question: "What if a slasher villain had an airborne super-virus?" The racism, sexual violence, and biological horror push it to the extreme edge of the rating. Director: Lam Nai-choi Starring: Fan Siu-wong While technically a Category III due to cartoonish,
While the rating still exists (currently used for The Sadness or I Saw the Devil ), the golden age lasted from roughly 1989 to 1997. The top films on this list— The Untold Story , Ebola Syndrome , and Riki-Oh —are not just shock cinema; they are avant-garde expressions of rage. These films contain scenes of real animal cruelty
Based on the real-life "Jars Murderer" (Lam Kwok-wai), Dr. Lamb follows a shy, bespectacled taxi driver (Simon Yam) who is secretly a necrophiliac serial killer. The film is unique because half of it is a police procedural; the other half is a flashback to his murders.
No is complete without The Untold Story . Loosely based on the real-life "Eight Immortals Restaurant" murders in Macau, this film stars Anthony Wong as a psychotic serial killer who chops up a family and makes them into pork buns.