We're Going to Eat You

1980
6.5| 1h30m| en
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A secret agent investigates a village that is populated by crazed, inbred cannibals.

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Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.
Taraparain Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.
Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.
Leofwine_draca The second horror film from Chinese director Tsui Hark (after 1979's BUTTERFLY MURDERS) is a crazed, madcap variation on the old Texas CHAIN SAW MASSACRE theme, with a gang of insane masked cannibals wielding meat cleavers making life difficult for our hero, the oddly-named 999. 999 is a kung fu fighting hero (is there no other?) who is searching for the equally bizarrely-monikored Rolex (just who chose the names in this movie?), a missing criminal who has vanished into a remote island off the coast of China. What follows is like one live-screen cartoon as 999 and his various friends repeatedly fight off attacks from dozens of hungry cannibals, who themselves are starved of food due to the rule of their nasty leader, the power-mad Eddy Ko (from John Woo's HEROES SHED NO TEARS).This bizarre, one-of-a-kind movie has plenty of diverse ingredients to recommend it. Unusually for what is primarily an action movie, there is plenty of characterisation and throwaway lines for both the good guys and the villains, and the acting is of a strong standard throughout with plenty of amusing performances. Hark mixes plenty of well-choreographed martial arts into the film's formula, as 999 fends off a dozen cleavers and battles it out with the leader of the village. The film has a distinctive visual style, with the emphasis on the bizarre and unnatural, and plenty of music is ripped off SUSPIRIA which makes for a weird experience. Not only are there a gang of gargoyle-like baddies on the loose, but there's also a sex-mad transvestite and twisted, contorted appearances a plenty. The film is fairly violent but with the emphasis on the humour in the violent scenes, with bubbling stews of human entrails and limbs being torn off. But in the end the wild mix of humour, horror, and kung fu comedy is what makes this concoction work.
Woodyanders Secret agent 999 (a solid and likable performance by Norman Chu) gets sent to a remote Chinese island to arrest thief Rolex. Things go horribly awry when said island turns out to be almost entirely populated by crazed bloodthirsty cannibals. Director Hark Tsui, who also co-wrote the loopy script with Roy Szeto, keeps the entertainingly off-the-wall story moving along at a breathless brisk clip, milks plenty of laughs from the amusingly twisted sense of spot-on silly and sidesplitting black humor, maintains a cheerfully deranged tone throughout, delivers a plethora of over-the-top violent and gory carnage, and stages the copious exciting and energetic martial arts fights with rip-roaring brio. The villages are a colorful assortment of complete kooks, with a homely and lecherous lady giant rating as the most delightfully daffy of the berserk bunch. Kwok Choi Hon easily steals the whole screwy show with his winningly wacky portrayal of a wily and elusive pickpocket while the lovely Mo-lin Cheung makes a favorable impression as the sweet Lin. The familiar music cues from Goblin's score for "Suspiria" further add to this picture's considerable infectiously insane appeal. Hung-Chuen Lau's vibrant widescreen cinematography boasts plenty of crazy camera angles. A seriously nutty riot.
BA_Harrison Switching from gross-out gore, to slapstick comedy, to entertaining martial arts mayhem in the blink of an eye, 'We're Going To Eat You' grabs your attention from the word go and doesn't let go until the credits roll.Tsui Hark's second movie as a director sees Norman Chu as Agent 999 who, whilst tracking down the notorious bandit Rolex (Eddy Ko) on a remote island, stumbles upon a town inhabited by cannibals. Agent 999 spends the majority of the movie avoiding being filleted and served as a main course, only to be captured when he arrives back on the mainland. But with the help of some unlikely allies, some firecrackers and a couple of handy pairs of roller-skates, the good guys fight back and kick major cannibal ass!! This totally mad movie feels as though Tsui Hark made things up as he went along, but this only adds to the brilliance of the film—all semblance of logic quickly goes out of the window and it soon becomes apparent that anything might happen, and probably will.Even with the occasional lull in the action, the loads of blood and guts, nicely choreographed fights courtesy of Corey Yuen, and truly unforgettable characters (including a sex mad giant of a woman and some of the ugliest actors ever committed to celluloid), ensure that We're Going To Eat You is solid trashy entertainment from start to finish.
EVOL666 WE'RE GOING TO EAT YOU is definitely one of the stranger films I've seen in a while...and honestly one of the more enjoyable. It's a very strange hybrid of kung-fu action, cannibal horror, and comedy - with some really off the wall scenes, and some decent gore.This one has a special government agent (known as agent 999) who goes to a remote island village to track down and arrest a notorious thief. Turns out the villagers are all cannibals who dine on unsuspecting visitors. Gore and hilarity ensue early on as our hero has numerous misadventures with the local townspeople which include various freaks, crazed mask-wearing butchers, a giant transvestite, and the towns chief - a greedy dick who hordes all the "meat" for himself and his security team, leaving almost nothing for the townspeople to live on.This could have been a really dark film considering the subject matter, but WE'RE GOING TO EAT YOU is intentionally handled as a comedy with all sorts of goofiness to lighten the film - including the insatiable transvestite that doesn't take "no" for an answer, and a hilarious kung-fu segment involving roller-skates and fire-crackers. Many cross-genre films don't really work - but WE'RE GOING TO EAT YOU pulls it off. A great Sunday afternoon diversion - especially with a few drinks in ya...8/10