For fans of mind-bogglingly bonkers cinema, the weird and wonderful world of Category III is a veritable gold-mine, and with endless scenes of sheer lunacy, bizarre sex, and sadistic violence, A Chinese Torture Chamber Story is like hitting the mother-lode!!!
Totally mad and breath-takingly inventive, this erotic martial-arts/fantasy/horror comedy, from writer Bing Cheuk, director Bosco Lam, and prolific producer Wong Jing, opens by graphically depicting a variety of nasty torture methods, which include being forcibly held against a red-hot brazier, castration, being chopped in half (although this seems like less a method of torture and more a means of instant death!), and skin removal. If you make it past these scenes without switching off in disgust (in particular, the image of the castration victim's bloody junk being slung into a metal dish), then you're exactly the kind of twisted deviant Cheuk, Lam and Jing had in mind when making this movie, and you'll have an absolute blast!
The story revolves around the trial of a beautiful young maid known as Little Cabbage, who is accused of murdering Got Siu-Tai, her well-hung husband, via an overdose of aphrodisiac (which caused his penis to explodeand not in a good way!). Also implicated in the crime is Little Cabbage's boss, Scholar Yang Ni-mu: he is in love with Little Cabbage and had hoped to make her his concubineuntil his jealous wife sold her to Got in order to get rid of her.
Little Cabbage and Scholar Yang continually protest their innocence, even after they are viciously tortured in a variety of nasty ways, but their judge will not accept their cries of innocence. Perhaps this is because he already knows who was really responsible for Got's death: his own son, who has been secretly having an affair with Scholar Yang's wife!
During the course of the trial, we get to see, via a series of flash-backs, the events leading up to the exploding donkey-schlong incident. Including tales of adultery, lesbianism, mid-air kung fu sex, and invisible rapists, it's the kind of salacious case that would evoke gasps of disbelief and shock from the juryif there was a jury.
Finally, broken, battered, and missing a few finger nails, Little Cabbage and Yang are tricked into pleading guilty by the corrupt judge, and are sentenced to death. Fortunately, however, their crack legal team (which consists of Yang's tasty sister, a pair of sex-mad martial artists, and a flat chested nanny who yearns for bigger breasts) do not give up hope, and discover, in the final hour, a vital piece of evidence. Yang's sister convinces a supreme judge to arrange a re-trial (proving her sincerity by rolling on a bed of pins), and wins the couple their freedom.
Meanwhile, the real guilty parties are punished for their crimes: the judge is exiled, his son is sentenced to drowning, and Yang's wife gets to ride a wooden horse with a particularly uncomfortable looking saddle.
With tons of hot Asian women in various states of undress, steamy soft-core sex aplenty, ejaculation jokes, and that unbelievable shot of poor old Got's pecker erupting blood over his bare-breasted wife, A Chinese Torture Chamber Story is an extremely entertaining example of Asian sexploitation.
8.5 out of 10, rounded up to 9 for IMDb.
Totally mad and breath-takingly inventive, this erotic martial-arts/fantasy/horror comedy, from writer Bing Cheuk, director Bosco Lam, and prolific producer Wong Jing, opens by graphically depicting a variety of nasty torture methods, which include being forcibly held against a red-hot brazier, castration, being chopped in half (although this seems like less a method of torture and more a means of instant death!), and skin removal. If you make it past these scenes without switching off in disgust (in particular, the image of the castration victim's bloody junk being slung into a metal dish), then you're exactly the kind of twisted deviant Cheuk, Lam and Jing had in mind when making this movie, and you'll have an absolute blast!
The story revolves around the trial of a beautiful young maid known as Little Cabbage, who is accused of murdering Got Siu-Tai, her well-hung husband, via an overdose of aphrodisiac (which caused his penis to explodeand not in a good way!). Also implicated in the crime is Little Cabbage's boss, Scholar Yang Ni-mu: he is in love with Little Cabbage and had hoped to make her his concubineuntil his jealous wife sold her to Got in order to get rid of her.
Little Cabbage and Scholar Yang continually protest their innocence, even after they are viciously tortured in a variety of nasty ways, but their judge will not accept their cries of innocence. Perhaps this is because he already knows who was really responsible for Got's death: his own son, who has been secretly having an affair with Scholar Yang's wife!
During the course of the trial, we get to see, via a series of flash-backs, the events leading up to the exploding donkey-schlong incident. Including tales of adultery, lesbianism, mid-air kung fu sex, and invisible rapists, it's the kind of salacious case that would evoke gasps of disbelief and shock from the juryif there was a jury.
Finally, broken, battered, and missing a few finger nails, Little Cabbage and Yang are tricked into pleading guilty by the corrupt judge, and are sentenced to death. Fortunately, however, their crack legal team (which consists of Yang's tasty sister, a pair of sex-mad martial artists, and a flat chested nanny who yearns for bigger breasts) do not give up hope, and discover, in the final hour, a vital piece of evidence. Yang's sister convinces a supreme judge to arrange a re-trial (proving her sincerity by rolling on a bed of pins), and wins the couple their freedom.
Meanwhile, the real guilty parties are punished for their crimes: the judge is exiled, his son is sentenced to drowning, and Yang's wife gets to ride a wooden horse with a particularly uncomfortable looking saddle.
With tons of hot Asian women in various states of undress, steamy soft-core sex aplenty, ejaculation jokes, and that unbelievable shot of poor old Got's pecker erupting blood over his bare-breasted wife, A Chinese Torture Chamber Story is an extremely entertaining example of Asian sexploitation.
8.5 out of 10, rounded up to 9 for IMDb.