morrison-dylan-fan On the IMDb Horror board (RIP) I would see the regs on the board talk about seeing CAT III films from Hong Kong. Whilst very interested in seeing these movies, I could not decide where to start. Taking part in a poll on ICM for best films of 1983,I found a title which allowed me to finally grab the CAT III tail.View on the film:Rolling this devil fetus in any Horror sub-genre they could get their hands on, the screenplay by Wen-Hua Cheng & Ging-Jiu Lo goes for a wonderfully bonkers slap-dash approach which leaps from gross-out body horror to husky monster movie action in a blink of an eye. Withholding the chance for the flick to settle by keeping the demon/monster always on the move with the family,the writers use the lone thread of the demon jumping from victim to victim,to string together weird set-pieces from a cake packed with worms, to a woman getting intimate with the devil.Playing Keepie uppie with the head of CAT III, director Hung-Chuen Lau goes all-out to embrace the freedom it offers, via rising above the low budget with tracking shots and whip-pans springing out from each demonic possession. Whilst the dark synch score (sadly uncredited) casts a brooding mood, Lau shoves it aside to go for delicious gore that has the set-pieces bursting with rubbery monster effects and lashings of slime spread across the devil fetus.

jadavix "Devil Fetus" is one of the few movies that was retroactively rated Category III when that infamous rating - roughly equivalent to the US NC-17 - was introduced. As such it's not anywhere near as gratuitous as latter flicks that got that rating, but still far from family-friendly.A young woman finds an ugly vase for sale and takes it home with her, where it morphs into a hairy demon and makes love to her. She is killed, and the demon's baby comes to term during her funeral, apparently escaping and possessing a dog, which then goes to a man, possessing him.The "story", despite many unmemorable characters, is more or less nonexistent. The movie jumps around too much, so you never get a feel for anything you're seeing, and will only come away with a memory of a few nasty scenes - such as the aforementioned demon sex scene (still nothing shocking to anyone who saw "Rosemary's Baby"), and a cake scene. The nasty bits are too few and far between when nothing else in the movie generates interest.

EVOL666 DEVIL FETUS is another in the line of strange horror films that came out of Hong Kong in the 80's, before the big Cat III boom of true "roughie" exploit-style films. This one is pretty strange, as you would probably hope to expect from a film called DEVIL FETUS...This one starts off with a chick buying a strangely phallic vase at an auction. The seller advises her that the vase is meant to bring "good-luck" and she heads home with her new acquisition. Well, I think if I was her, I'd want my f!cking money back...Vase-owner becomes obsessed with the thing and when she starts fondling herself with it, a demon (that looks pretty much like a guy wrapped in bed sheets and covered in sh!t...) comes out and humps her. Her husband who's been away on business catches her at it one night, gets mad, and smashes the vase on the floor. Of course this isn't a good thing and the demon is released in a cloud of smoke that rots the husbands face off. Husband and wife both die, and at their funeral a priest notices the wife "give birth" to the offspring of her union with the bedsheet-demon thing. They try to contain it with some spells but apparently it doesn't work too well. From there on out, the demon's spirit jumps from host to host causing general mischief and un-merryment. It all gets kinda hazy from there, but there are some EXTREMELY ridiculous fight scenes (including some of the worst editing I've ever seen on film...)as various people try to exorcise the evil spirit...DEVIL FETUS just didn't live up to the hype for me. I had read several reviews claiming that the film was "gory" and "fun" and what-not...but I didn't get it. It's not really gory at all and it's more dull than fun. It may be that I've become slightly (or severely, depending on your viewpoint...) desensitized to this sort of thing because I had watched most of the truly rough Cat III HK stuff and "extreme" Asian ultra-gore films long before I got my hands on this one. I think if I'd have seen this 15 years ago it might have had more of an impact - but as it is, it just didn't. This would be a good starting point if you've never delved into strange Asian horror, but if you've seen any of the more "hard-core" HK/Japanese stuff of the last 10-15 years then you will probably just be bored. Recommended only to those who really have to see every strange film out there, or those who have never watched any Asian horror and can stand the $12 FX, editing and acting. 5/10

Dan Devil's Fetus is certainly one of the weirdest films that I have had the pleasure to watch.The story is very strange, I still cannot figure it out out fully. The film starts with a public sell in which a young lady obtains a desired product which is some sort of a lamp. Later, she arrives at her home, and starts enjoying herself with that lamp, then a very strange demon f**ks her before her boyfriend comes and later discovers that his girlfriend's dark side, then the demon disappears and the boyfriend breaks the lamp and gets hurt, and then they both die heh. This description is just the first five minutes from this obscure little film. It becomes much nastier, crazier and odder later on.At certain moments this flick can be similar to a supernatural kung fu flick, however , this film combines no fights, just wacky supernatural incidents like those of the Evil Dead.Devil's Fetus contains gore, nudity, supernatural content and ghosts, demons that rape young girls, crazy religious people and so on.I can recommend it to fans of supernatural horror movies and fans of Asian cinema. Recommended 7/10