The Untold Story

Because I guess China already had enough "serious" crime dramas, the Untold Story's writers decided to fill it with jokes about the lead detective bringing hookers to the station, jokes about those hookers' tight asses, jokes about a tomboy cop's tiny teats, and jokes about how oh-so smelly severed arms are. Because, you know, humor is always welcome in a movie about a cook who rapes a cashier with chopsticks then grinds her up into cha shu bao filling. YUMMY!

Creepy, surreal and supposedly true story of a Chinese killer who served up his victims as the lunch special in his restaurant. Some pretty stupid "Hong Kong comedy" moments aside, this film is unashamedly brutal. NOT for the squeamish.

I love these CAT III movies, they’ll show some disgusting depraved nonsense but than any tension is immediately destroyed because people in Hong Kong can’t go five minutes without pantomiming and slapstick.

Top badass moment? In the middle of cutting a load of people up, it was good to see Anthony Wong take time out to sharpen his meat cleaver. (He forgot to wear safety goggles or gloves whilst using the grinder though.) Caring about your tools is good practice and therefore badass. They do say a blunt tool is more dangerous than a sharp one. No cats or chainsaws and three decapitations; two were after they were dead though. It's not often you see a child have her head cut off in a film...

What's great about this movie is that as a crime procedural you're not spending the whole movie trying to solve who the killer is or having the characters track him down until the end. He's front and center throughout and what's most important about the story is how low this character can sink in depravity, that's what everyone's trying to solve. There are moments when even after you've seen him commit heinous crimes, you still care about the law taking too many liberties and playing dirty.

I don't know how to feel about this. Wong may be one of the best actors to play a psycho killer ever. When he gets started nothing can stop him. It's really scary. Then there are the cops. At the beginning they are just goofy (and very sexist which definitely is a major flaw of the movie) but then they try to solve everything with violence too. And then there's the prison where there is more violence. Heavy stuff.

really creepy and suspense.

One of the most brutal films I've watched. What bothers me most about it is the impression that all that horror is real. Watch it isn't like a ghost train ride at an amusement park, but a disgusting experience of witnessing acts of sadism and extreme cruelty.

Best WTF movie I have seen. Not as great as Old Boy but it's up there. I will never look at BBQ pork buns the same way again. lol I was also pleased that they slapped the kid gloves on when the violence towards the children started. If the scene was handled with less care than that, it would've scarred me for life. Not for the squeamish. Fair warning.

Horrible stuff sandwiched between moronic comedy and boring old cannibalism (maybe cannibalism was once shocking, but now having seen it in a thousand horror films it loses it's edge)

Anthony Wong is the standout here, I love that this is the movie that got him his first best actor award. The film's treatment of women is very bad, but there's something here for anyone into fucked up extreme violence and gore

Viewed June 5, 2021. The combination of abject horror and unwieldy lowbrow humor is key to its success, the cognitive dissonance between the crimes that are occurring and the actions of the people in charge of stopping it. It does feel like the line is crossed a couple of times during that final murder sequence.

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Based on a true story, "The Untold Story" is a notable HK exploitation film, yet it's too similar to "Ebola Syndrome" also directed by Yau and starring Wong. Though released first, it's bettered by "Ebola Syndrome" because it's too grounded and not exploitative enough (which you might not believe if you've seen the rape and murder scenes). In other words, this one feels like it's here to shock you, the other wants to morbidly entertain you by shocking you. A subtle, but important distinction.