The Untold Story (1995)

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

Blistering performances.

The Untold Story is one of the sickest, but most well made films ever. Anthony Wong plays a lunatic like no one else and even won best actor award for his inimitable, awesome performance in this film. The film is a police procedural in the vein of Dr. Lamb, also based on true events and also produced by Danny Lee. Danny Lee also appears as Inspector Lee and his team of goofball cops provide out of place comedy that actually make the film darker and more disturbing . All of the scenes with Anthony Wong are brooding and intense. Director Herman Yau did an awesome job telling the story and preserving its dark tone. The violence is very extreme and pulls no punches in its brutality . There is rape, murder, torture ,child killings ,bodily dimemberment and cannibalism. This a very nasty and extreme film, rated Category III ( HK X or NC17 equivalent ).If you are a fan of dark , extreme , disturbing horror this is one flick you should check out. I highly recommend The Ebola Syndrome and Dr. Lamb as well.

I had heard a lot about this notorious CAT III over the last two years. How brutal and shocking it was, how I had never seen anything like it. The Untold Story certainly blew me away. It's visceral and graphic in a way that only an Asian film would have the guts to be and get away with it. It's also superbly done.The Untold Story is not a straight horror film. At its core, it's a crime thriller. A game of cat and mouse between the police and the killer. There is also a comedic "sub-plot" so to speak. This is one film that definitely lived up to its reputation for me. Untold Story does not shy away from depicting controversial subject matter. Including but not limited to: chopstick rape, child murder, urine drinking and severe police brutality.Show this to anyone who claims that they have seen it all or if you consider yourself jaded and need a jolt.

I've waited to watch this one for a long time, having eagerly read up about it before actually managing to find it. Yes, I'm one of those horror fans who salvage through tons of reviews and stuff, taking it upon themselves to find a worthy film to behold. I was excited by this film's reputation... it was hailed as something for the gorehounds, something sick yet funny, a reputation which Peter Jackson's Braindead also shares. Well, I've watched both and some other movies as well so I'll throw in my two cents. 1) Does it live up to the gory reputation? No, not really. First thing, the blood. It seemed as though Herman Yau had two kinds of blood in use for the movie. One is the common overly bright red you see in old horror movies and the other is the deliciously realistic dark coloured blood we all love. If you want to see gore, you can see much more from any respectable zombie movie. Or you could try the Guinea Pig series instead :)2) The funny scenes ruined the movie!That's what lots of reviewers who've watched the movie and actually liked it seem to think. I think the humour in this film doesn't spoil the movie, it's the typical Hong Kong humour you see from films like Troublesome Night, to Bio Zombie. People who say the funny scenes ruin the serious mood of this movie totally fail to see that those scenes are everywhere. Not just from the parts where the female cop is made fun of. This movie is darkly camp and the black humour is persistent and liberal. Now, I won't say I'm a fan of the sexist humour, but I did like the surprise that Anthony Wong's character had for a certain auntie waiting to see her sick nephew... :)3) The 'Chopstick' scene Some people seemed to have a problem with this one. Ignore them! It's not a great scene, nor does it deserve its notoriety, to me it's just... kind of lame. The most brutal rape scene I've seen still belongs to Boys Don't Cry.Finally, if you decide to see this movie, make sure you see it not just for the gore or you might be disappointed. This isn't a bad movie, but it works much better on all levels, than just the 'exploitation' reputation it's been slapped with.

This is my first 'Cat III' flick, so while I'm not qualified to compare this to other genre entries; I've heard this is the pick of the bunch, and I wouldn't be surprised to find that is indeed the case. I guess this is the sort of film that people mean when they talk about completely sick Asian cinema, as The Untold Story doesn't exactly hold back and while the plotting is largely uneven and sometimes doesn't flow well; there's buckets of blood on display, and the film always at least has that to fall back on. The film plays out something like a cross between a psycho killer flick and a police drama, as we follow Wong Chi Hang; a man who brutally murdered a family after a card game, and took control of the Eight Immortals Restaurant. Various members of the restaurant staff are going missing, and it's no coincidence that the restaurant happens to serve 'pork bao'. The story really starts when some kids discover a hand on the beach, and following an investigation into the hand's former owner; it comes to light that it once belonged to the mother of the restaurant family...The film starts off slowly, and I can't say that I was enjoying it too much by the end of the first half. However, things really pick up in the second half and by the end we are treated to what is surely one of the most brutal murder sequences ever committed to screen! There's a distinct element of pitch black humour to the film, and this is shown through the bumbling police officers and even some of the murder scenes themselves. The way that the film is shot is fairly stylish and certain sequences; such as the one that sees the main character welding a huge butcher's knife, are very memorable. The Untold Story does a good job of drawing the audience into the central character's story, and this is why the second half of the film works better than the first. The title of the film comes from the fact that our murderer tries his best not to divulge the story surrounding the murders to the police, and the torturous sequences that see the fuzz trying to get it out of him add nicely to the brutal atmosphere of the film. Overall, this is a great slice of nasty cinema. Since it's one of the better known 'Cat III' films, I guess all the experienced viewers will already have seen it; but if you've never seen a Cat III film, this looks like as good a place as any to start!