Tacticalin An absolute waste of money

RipDelight This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

ThrillMessage There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

Luecarou What begins as a feel-good-human-interest story turns into a mystery, then a tragedy, and ultimately an outrage.

Leofwine_draca SUCCUBARE is one of those bizarre little black-magic themed Asian films that were all the rage in the early 1980s. It's stylised as a kung fu film and even features a role for kung fu star Carter Wong who shows up as a bodyguard. However, it's more like DEVIL WOMAN in terms of plot, with a number of witches holding sway over the locality and casting curses on the menfolk. There are some gruesome moments, typically involving the vomiting of worms and the like as in the various Shaw Brothers horror flicks, but the worst moments of the film are those involving real-life animal cruelty. One supporting character merely shows up to devour living creatures - mice, toads, etc. - and incredibly these moments seem to be played for laughs. There's also an ox execution reminiscent of APOCALYPSE NOW. It's rather unpalatable, and otherwise the film is too cheap and derivative to enjoy.

Darkling_Zeist Succubare (1982) is a profoundly odd Asian horror/Kung Fu hybrid that rabidly earns its status of being one of the most eccentric HK flicks available; due primarily to a plethora of grisly scenes featuring crazed epicurean, Cho King furiously munching on all manner of still-living animal tissues. Happily the frequent sight of, Carter Wong's familiar stoic visage lends a brief sense of normalcy to an otherwise confounding and stomach-churning affair. Even within the richly bizarre canon of Asian cinema Succubare sticks out like the proverbial cock in a nunnery. Which, of course, is precisely why you should see it. Enjoy!

BA_Harrison If, like me, you actively seek out the rarest and weirdest (and often most awful) that world cinema has to offer, then you should look no further than the supernatural horror output of Hong Kong in the early 80s. Often mixing bizarre black magic with kung fu and silly comedy, and usually packed with plenty of creepy crawlies (snakes, worms, eels, centipedes etc.), these movies are about as bizarre as it gets.Succubare is definitely a case in point: featuring a mountain tribe whose women keep their men from straying by casting nasty spells over them (that, should they leave, cause them to fill up with writhing creatures and die an agonising death), some so-so martial arts, and lots of real life animal killing (much of which is perpetrated by a geek who has absolutely no bearing on the story), this film is just plain strange.A prolonged scene in which the tribeswomen hunt for snakes and insects, casually throwing the creatures into the baskets on their backs, is quite fascinating; a tribal feast that sees a poor ox bashed on the head and then torn apart is totally disgusting; and the moments that show worms crawling in open wounds and being vomited onto the floor will have the squeamish losing their appetite for a while.However, it's the live animal munching that really qualifies Succubare for legendary status amongst fans of out-there movie-making. It's thoroughly vile to watch and yet strangely compelling: the geek chomps on a snake, woofs down a fat, juicy toad (nasty!), and hungrily devours a mouse (biting off its head and then shoving the rest in afterwards).Not a great movie (hell, it's not really even a mediocre movie), Succubare is recommended only to people who think they've seen it all. This one gets 4 out of 10 from me, which is probably more than it deserves, but I begrudgingly respect it for being able to make me feel slightly ill.

HumanoidOfFlesh This Hong Kong horror film is loaded with animal cruelty.An ox is graphically killed and sliced apart on camera.Snakes,toads,lizards and mice are eaten alive in inserts by the same man at various times during the film and other reptiles and animals are tortured.Add a little bit of kung fu,martial infidelity and colorful costumes,mix in some curses and what you get is "Succubare".The main story is about a bunch of women who live in a remote town who put curses on their men if they leave town and don't come back in the allotted time.One cheating man's belly swells-up the size of a balloon and when a surgeon cuts him open,worms,snakes and centipedes spill out of his stomach as he wakes up and dies.The main plot deals with a man whose brother is killed by one of the spells and goes out to get revenge.What he doesn't count on is falling in love with the head priestess.Director Wai-Yip Wong fills the screen with atrocious acts of animal cruelty that lies head-and-shoulders above anything the Italians have produced.Still the story is quite interesting and fans of objectionable extreme cinema should give it a look.7 out of 10.