Yan pei go jang haai (1996) Reviews

• incoherent category 3 fun

  vilegore2004-06-14

  This is a thoroughly perverse and gore addled category 3 film from Hong Kong. For those who don't know, category 3 basically means 'rated as containing nudity and/or hardcore violence', and if thats what your looking for, this totally incoherent film delivers. I'm not too sure if the lack of linear structure is down to bad subtitles, s****y cuts or a godard fetish or even an excess of drugs, but this does deliver on important scores of bezerk originality, up front nastiness, and frothing insanity. If you manage to track a copy of this increasingly rare film down you will see what i mean; human skin is turned into ladies leather shoes at a luckless shoe factory, a maniac does something very very odd with a duck and a photo of a co-worker, cute asian girls are hassled in pretty bizarre ways by the killer of the title....... Well its a sleazy piece of schlock. Its very good but make sure you've got a 6 pack and you aint expecting Kurosawa, if you get my drift. L8R

• A Righteous Fiasco of Sleaze and Chunkblowing!

  rustyangel132002-03-02

  Yup, you're probably wondering about the name. Nope, it's NOT a transvestite or homosexual film! It's more wacky fun from the "Body Horror" genre. Triple H (no, not the wrestler) is Category 3 at it's best (or worst, whichever the case may be). It's ingredients are: one part porn movie, one part Kung-Fu Theatre, one part cheezy B action flick, and one part TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE. Well, how can you go wrong with that, huh?! Basic storyline... a group of gangsta's help to supply a shoe store with a new fantastic line of special imported leather. The reason it's so special is because it's made from human skin! Anyone's a potential victim but they prefer young men and women. Softer and more elastic, I guess. If they catch ya, they'll kill ya, cut ya up, and skin ya for shoe leather. But not only that, there's scenes a-plenty of rape, murder, exploitation, and foul behavior that can only be seen as totally vile, totally loathsome, and just down right nasty. One in particular involves a picture of a woman's face with her mouth cut out taped to a live duck ass-end up. I'll let your imagination fill in the blanks of that story. And one thing I just couldn't quite understand, if you love someone, why would you want to urinate on them the first chance you get them alone? Like I said before, just plain nasty. Movies like this could give China a really bad name.

• This is not a very good movie!

  handodk2000-07-11

  If you want to watch this movie after my comments I will suggest you use the fast forward button. This movie is very confused..it is poorly acted and lousy written. I could forgive all this if it was groundbreaking in any way, but no. It´s about this shoefactory were people disappear and end up as fine quality shoes. All the characters are unpleasant, so who cares who kills who. There is a subplot involving some local thugs - an excuse to make some lame shootout in the end. The only good thing about this movie is a lot of softcore scenes, but it cant save this turkey. A fair amount of blood though, if anyones interested.

• A valuable lesson on how not to run a business

  fertilecelluloid2005-08-06

  Good title, totally inept movie. The score is actual cues from the soundtracks of NEAR DARK, BODY DOUBLE and PHANTASM. A shoe company depends on human skin for its leather. Not a great business plan, but it works for a while. This is a sleazy little number with a generous helping of rapes, dismemberments and stabbings. Some of the more horrific scenes display a little style, but, overall, this is a very amateurish attempt to jump on the DR. LAMB/LOVE TO KILL/UNTOLD STORY bandwagon. Shing Fui-On, who has seen much better days, plays a wheelchair-bound crime boss who conducts his shoe wholesaling business at a card table under a freeway. "Betrayers must turn out to be the merchandise!" is his business motto. Another not-so-great business plan, but it works for a while. When a couple discover the severed head of a missing friend, they see the discovery as an opportunity to get married. When the killer cuts a bitchy woman open and holds up her entrails for viewers, he declares: "I will have my shoe business soon!" The same bitchy woman is forced (earlier on) to caress her bloody breasts with a dead hand and kiss a head. Yes, it's that kind of movie, and no thought was given to its script, if in fact there ever was one. The close-ups are mismatched, the softcore sex is bungled, and the final shoot-out is ludicrous. As a lesson on how not to run a business and how not to make a horror film, much can be learned from HORRIBLE HIGH HEELS.

• Texas Chainsaw Massacre meets I Spit On Your Grave

  newkfl2007-06-14

  When I saw "Horrible High Heels" I was completely blown away by what was playing on the television screen. The opening scene with the cow being gutted made me think of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. By the time the ending rolled around, the body count was so high from revenge that I Spit On Your Grave entered my head. It was a different movie for sure and if you want to being surprised at every turn, this would be the movie to check out. It really blew my mind!!! I wanted to thank the friend that lent it to me with the warning of not to eat any type of meat while watching "Horrible High Heels" but I did anyway. I was completely shocked by what I seen and will purchase it on DVD if I happen to run into it at some of the local video stores. It would be one of the movies to be shown to viewers with a high tolerance for pain, agony, violence, sex, nudity and death. What a rush!!!