(1983)
Donald Guarisco
With a title like Devil Fetus, the audience should know what it is in for. The film is every bit as ridiculous and sleazy as the title suggests: characterizations are practically non-existent and the ramshackle plot thwarts logic at every turn but none of that matters because the film is essentially a rollercoaster of shocks. As a string of goofy/gross setpieces, Devil Fetus delivers the goods for fans of schlock. Director Hung Chuen Lau might be lacking in subtlety but he delivers a film that moves fast and keeps the viewer engaged by throwing something insane at them every few minutes: highlights include a scene where the parents of the family are "attacked" by the rooms they're in and the crazed finale, which mixes swordplay and slime-spewing in equal measure. Genre fans will also be interested to see how the film takes cues from obvious sources like Poltergeist and the 1982 version of The Thing and reinterprets them through the prism of Chinese supernatural folklore. In short, Devil Fetus is trash -- but it's the kind of energetic, eccentric trash that is likely to win over fans of the bizarre.
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Devil Fetus (1983)
