Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Bumpy Chip It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Leofwine_draca DEVIL FETUS is a Hong Kong horror yarn very much in the mould of the films made by Shaw Brothers such as BLACK MAGIC, MO, and the like. It was produced by Lo Wei, the guy who once directed Bruce Lee in the likes of THE BIG BOSS and its ilk a decade beforehand. The film is lower budgeted than Shaw additions to the genre, but still manages to pack a great deal of ickiness into the running time, even if the titular spirit doesn't appear much.The story is about the purchase of an antique vase that releases an evil demonic spirit that impregnates a young woman before killing her. The spirit emerges from her stomach before being captured and subdued by a Taoist priest for a decade or so until an unfortunate accident sees it released to attack the woman's family members. Initially a dog is possessed before the spirit enters the body of a young man and all hell breaks loose from there.Films like DEVIL FETUS are quite predictable and tend to borrow the majority of their scares from Hollywood hits like POLTERGEIST and THE ENTITY while adding a distinctly Asian vibe all of their own and this is no exception. The cast give nondescript performances and the direction is nothing special, but there's a high level of cheesy special effects mixed with the odd bit of unpalatable animal cruelty (a German Shepherd and an eagle being ill served by this film's plot). Expect flying beds, apparitions, nudity, the vomiting of worms, and an outlandish climax packed full of supernatural mayhem. It's lowbrow stuff, but sure to delight horror fans regardless.

EVOL666 DEVIL FETUS is another in the line of strange horror films that came out of Hong Kong in the 80's, before the big Cat III boom of true "roughie" exploit-style films. This one is pretty strange, as you would probably hope to expect from a film called DEVIL FETUS...This one starts off with a chick buying a strangely phallic vase at an auction. The seller advises her that the vase is meant to bring "good-luck" and she heads home with her new acquisition. Well, I think if I was her, I'd want my f!cking money back...Vase-owner becomes obsessed with the thing and when she starts fondling herself with it, a demon (that looks pretty much like a guy wrapped in bed sheets and covered in sh!t...) comes out and humps her. Her husband who's been away on business catches her at it one night, gets mad, and smashes the vase on the floor. Of course this isn't a good thing and the demon is released in a cloud of smoke that rots the husbands face off. Husband and wife both die, and at their funeral a priest notices the wife "give birth" to the offspring of her union with the bedsheet-demon thing. They try to contain it with some spells but apparently it doesn't work too well. From there on out, the demon's spirit jumps from host to host causing general mischief and un-merryment. It all gets kinda hazy from there, but there are some EXTREMELY ridiculous fight scenes (including some of the worst editing I've ever seen on film...)as various people try to exorcise the evil spirit...DEVIL FETUS just didn't live up to the hype for me. I had read several reviews claiming that the film was "gory" and "fun" and what-not...but I didn't get it. It's not really gory at all and it's more dull than fun. It may be that I've become slightly (or severely, depending on your viewpoint...) desensitized to this sort of thing because I had watched most of the truly rough Cat III HK stuff and "extreme" Asian ultra-gore films long before I got my hands on this one. I think if I'd have seen this 15 years ago it might have had more of an impact - but as it is, it just didn't. This would be a good starting point if you've never delved into strange Asian horror, but if you've seen any of the more "hard-core" HK/Japanese stuff of the last 10-15 years then you will probably just be bored. Recommended only to those who really have to see every strange film out there, or those who have never watched any Asian horror and can stand the $12 FX, editing and acting. 5/10

dbborroughs The plot of this movie doesn't make a great deal of sense. Part of the problem is that the subtitles on the print I saw were very small, (the VCD that I have is a widescreen print with the subtitles from the actual film itself so they end up being very tiny). Another part of the problem is that this movie wouldn't make sense under the best of circumstances.It all begins when two women buy a vase at an auction. The younger of the women takes it home and becomes "possesed" by it. What this means is that a big ugly monster comes out and has sex with her and changes her personality so as to be obsessed with the vase. One night hubby comes home and sees his wife with the monster and is killed by the beast. The wife, now pregnant soon gives birth to a mini monster and dies. The mini monster is caught and then things get less clear. (Thats about the first 12 minutes of screen time.) From here the "monster" jumps from body to body killing people and eating dead bodies, he keeps under a bed.I can't really tell you much more about the plot than that, except that the movie has several great set pieces mainly battles with the monster in human form, one with a priest who uses mini statues and the final one in the cellar of a house (That one had me murmuring "oh s#&%" a couple of times). There are numerous gore effects and moments of gross out horror. Best of all at times the movie achieves a wonderful nirvana when you're sitting there with a combination of being grossed out, a desire to laugh at the cheesiness of the visuals and a deep admiration at a film that is over coming everything to have a "really cool" moment.Understand, though, this is a mess of a film. It doesn't really come together well. There is the slenderest of threads keeping it all together (and it could be argued its not very together). The strength of the movie is its parts, the set pieces and gross out horror bits, this is the reason to see the movie and not for any hope of a clear plot. As a whole this film is really probably a 7 or 6.5 so giving it an 8 I'm over selling it on the basis of its parts, but I was really impressed by the parts. If you like gory horror and don't mind a lack of sense try it.

bastardx 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!