Waste of time

Dreadfully Boring

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

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

DEVIL FETUS is a Hong Kong horror yarn very much in the mould of the films made by Shaw Brothers such as BLACK MAGIC, MO, and the like. It was produced by Lo Wei, the guy who once directed Bruce Lee in the likes of THE BIG BOSS and its ilk a decade beforehand. The film is lower budgeted than Shaw additions to the genre, but still manages to pack a great deal of ickiness into the running time, even if the titular spirit doesn't appear much.The story is about the purchase of an antique vase that releases an evil demonic spirit that impregnates a young woman before killing her. The spirit emerges from her stomach before being captured and subdued by a Taoist priest for a decade or so until an unfortunate accident sees it released to attack the woman's family members. Initially a dog is possessed before the spirit enters the body of a young man and all hell breaks loose from there.Films like DEVIL FETUS are quite predictable and tend to borrow the majority of their scares from Hollywood hits like POLTERGEIST and THE ENTITY while adding a distinctly Asian vibe all of their own and this is no exception. The cast give nondescript performances and the direction is nothing special, but there's a high level of cheesy special effects mixed with the odd bit of unpalatable animal cruelty (a German Shepherd and an eagle being ill served by this film's plot). Expect flying beds, apparitions, nudity, the vomiting of worms, and an outlandish climax packed full of supernatural mayhem. It's lowbrow stuff, but sure to delight horror fans regardless.

"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.

I had heard a few good things about "Devil Fetus", but unfortunately it didn't live up to any of the hype for me. Pretty much Dullsville without all the gore people had mentioned in the reviews I had read a while back.There's something to do with a vase that is bought at some Chinese auction. The chick who buys it starts getting all horned up and when her businessman hubby comes home to find her getting boned by a demon, he smashes the vase and his face gets all rotted and maggot-covered. Then he jumps out the window. Cut to years later, there's some spells, a couple of brothers who were around when the sh|t at the beginning went down and a love interest. One of the brothers becomes possessed by the malevolent demon from before and some random sh|t happens...The plot of this thing was SO f*cking arbitrary and disjointed. Definitely a weak example of CATIII cinema that did nothing for me. You got a worm-filled birthday cake, a dude munching on the guts of his dead German Shepherd and some ridiculous 'showdown' between the possessed guy and a samurai wizard - complete with laser-beams shot from eyeballs. It's all just so stupid and boring. Avoid.More Gorepump reviews at http://swinesewage.blogspot.com/

Coming across as a manic and unholy mix of 'The exorcist', 'Amityville horror', 'Plan 9 from outer space', 'Evil dead', 'Poltergeist', 'War of the gargantuas' and Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' video with a single-digit budget, this brilliant and idiotic Hong Kong flick keeps the freak-outs coming fast and furious throughout. Acting is non-existent and the, uh..."minimal" plot apparently exists only to provide a framework in which to present gratuitous scenes of worm-vomiting, demonic possession, decapitation and nubile starlets making congress with giant, grunting, slimey green Sasquatch-looking monsters. Generally pointless film features some of the worst special effects ever seen but is never less than massively entertaining-- by no means miss the opportunity to catch this on a big screen, as I was fortunate enough to last night!