Best movie of this year hands down!

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

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.

"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.

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

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!