What to say of this film? Maybe I had too high hopes for "Ebola Syndrome" as it was directed by Herman Yau, who also directed the "Untold Story". Both films have an eerily similar premise(Where the hell is your imagination,Yau?!!),featuring the same type of psycho courtesy of Anthony Wong, but whereas "The Untold Story" is somber, filthy and "evil", and doesn't really hold back when it comes to close-ups of slaughter and mayhem, "Ebola Syndrome" doesn't really deliver any murderous goodies in nearly the same vein I'm afraid. I had hoped dearly that the corpse-to-hamburger-transition would be succulently detailed and outstretched, but alas, what I got was not a beautiful dismemberment of a woman, but merely some off-screen sawing, and then a close up of bones with slinters of flesh attached. Not meaning to imply that this wasn't appreciated, merely saying that if Yau could let us see parts of a detailed autopsy(Which was quite nice, by the way!), why not so when it came to the butchering? The killings are pretty mundane, and knowing that I saw the "Strong Uncut Version", I begin to wonder how they look in the rated version. All in all I feel this is a film that is more focused on the tackiness of bodily fluids, the pathetic antics and sounds of the main-man, and not so much on creating a sinister and murderous vibe like "The Untold Story". Which, by the way, I would recommend watching instead of this.
Review of Ebola Syndrome
