Kattiera Nana I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Humbersi The first must-see film of the year.

lee_hkfan RUN AND KILL (1993) - When returning home from work one day, Cheung (Kent Cheng) finds his wife having sex with the local grocer. In a state of shock, Cheung walks out and ends up at a sleazy bar to drown his sorrows. Having one too many, he unintentionally hires a local gangster to kill his wife. When he comes home the following day, men attack and kill his wife and her lover, leaving him in the frame for the murders. Cheung doesn't remember hiring the men but is soon reminded when they come calling for the rest of the money.Fleeing his apartment, Cheung hides out at the old family home in china, only to find his old neighbour and a group of professional killers held up there. The neighbour agrees to help Cheung with his trouble back home but proves to be a fatal mistake, leading to events that are far worse than he could imagine.Run and Kill is a bleak and gloomy CAT III classic from the 90's starring Kent Cheng as the extremely unlucky fatty Cheung who inadvertently runs into Simon Yam's psychopathic ex war veteran character, played here with his usual great charm. I did find Kent Cheng kind of annoying at first, and Danny Lee barely even has a role in the movie but still, Run and Kill deserves it's place as one of the CAT 3 classics from this period in HK cinema. Not wanting to spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it but ending is worth watching the film for that scene alone, even if the dummy corpse looks more like a statue of a monkey!

trashgang Just after directing Dr. Lamb, Hin Sing 'Billy' Tang, made this action flick. I didn't like Dr. lamb but what I did like was the performance of Simon Yam who played Dr. Lamb. Here he is again as Ching Fung.Again for a CAT III flick it is low on everything. Okay, they do fight and slash and blood is sputtering around but again, scriptwise it sucked a lot for me. Again some situations looked ridiculous just like Dr. lamb. The most disturbing scene must be the one were a kid is being burned alive while the father is watching, but he ran away with the burned corpse and loses it's head, again, it looks ridiculous.I had so many expectations for a CAT III flick, sadly they weren't fulfilled.Gore 2/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 2/5 story 2/5 Comedy 0/5

BA_Harrison I'll never complain about having a bad day again! Sure, work can get me down sometimes and having to do D.I.Y. on my weekend is never fun, but this is nothing compared to the dreadful time poor 'Fatty' Cheung has in Run and Kill.Firstly, he discovers his wife is having an affair. Then, after a quite understandable drinking binge, he accidentally gets his adulterous wife murdered by gangsters. Before long, he finds himself fighting for his life after having witnessed the deaths of both his mother and his young daughter at the hands of a psychotic killer.Director 'Bloody' Billy Tang's tale of an ordinary Joe plunged into an unfamiliar nightmarish world of violence is a typical slice of Category III nastiness: taboos are broken, the innocent die, and there is definitely no happy ending. Whilst Run and Kill isn't the most extreme example of the genre (the first half of the film is rather subdued for a Cat III film), there are still plenty of moments which should satisfy fans.Kent Cheng gives a reasonable performance as the unfortunate 'Fatty', but it is Simon Yam who excels as Ching Fung, the loony who pushes our tubby good guy over the edge. Yam is no stranger to playing the bad guy, but in Run and Kill he gives us a truly scary villain. Ching Fung is so evil, he thinks nothing of setting fire to Fatty's daughter, and then tormenting the poor man by parading his girl's charred corpse in front of him. And then shooting the crispy remains for good measure.Yes, Run and Kill is extremely excessive in places, but then this is what makes Cat III films so compelling. Seeing exactly how far the makers will go in the name of entertainment is all part of the fun.

contronatura Believe it or not, this film was intended as a dark comedy. And comedies don't get much darker than this. Hong Kong's master of depravity, Billy Tang, has made an exploitation film so far over the top that it's funny. The plot is fairly complex, actually, and ingenious in how it arrives at where it does. Fatty (Kent Cheng), tired of his cheating wife, mistakenly hires a triad to kill her. Upon her demise, he is presented with the bill, which he cannot pay. He seeks refuge with a band of former Vietcong mercenaries. When the one who has taken him in is killed by the triads, the dead man's crazed cousin (Simon Yam) seeks revenge on not only the triads but Fatty as well, whom he blames for his cousin's death. This all culminates in one moment so startling that it's shocking and funny at the same time. Let's just say it involves Fatty's 12 year old daughter and a lot of gasoline. I'm not sure anyone but Billy Tang could have gotten away with this film (for an even more depraved exercise, seek out his serial-killer-run-amok flick Red to Kill). A must for fans of twisted cinema.