TheExpatriate700 If you want a horror movie that has everything, this is it. Gore, graphic nudity, sick comedy-everything a horror film should have. It takes a loser who would be played by Seth Rogan if it was an American film, and turns him into one of the most outrageously horrifying villains in horror film history.One of the fine points of The Ebola Syndrome is that it manages these shifts in tone-from a mostly comic (if repulsive) first half to a down right nihilistic ending-with aplomb. Somehow, they make it all fit together, in a stew only a Category III Hong Kong film can bring you.If you thought Friday the 13th was scary, stay away. However, if your taste runs to gonzo horror, this is your movie, bar none.

massaster760 If I was asked to describe Ebola Syndrome in one word, it would have to be; hilarious. "What?" You might be thinking, "How can you describe a movie that features dismemberment, cannibalism, animal mutilation, self-mutilation, rape, gratuitous nudity, racial slurs, autopsy dissections, and an infamous masturbation scene with pork meat, as hilarious? How? Because in spite of all the nastiness featured in Ebola Syndrome, it actually resembles a gross-out comedy, than a horror film. That's not to say the the film doesn't have it's share of edgy, disturbing violence... it's just done very comically. And better yet, it works damn well.Anthony Wong reprises his psycho/rapist/killer role again for another outing with director Herman Yau. Along with Danny Lee, these two were behind the much more serious and darker "Untold Story." Drawing comparisons between the two films seems inevitable because they are very similar in plot and both feature Anthony Wong doing what he does best... acting like a raving maniac. But while Untold Story is a dark and mean monster of a film, Ebola Syndrome is it's more light-hearted cousin. Kai(Anthony Wong)is a psycho, who flees Hong Kong after brutally murdering the family of his employer (all of which happens before the opening credits) to take a job in South Africa working as a chef in Chinatown. Ten years pass, and Kai finds himself stuck in a dead end job with no way out. After visiting a local Zulu tribe to purchase pigs, Kai gets infected with the lethal Ebola Virus. But Kai is "one in ten million" and instead of dying he becomes a carrier for the disease. Shortly after an argument ensues at his work, Kai ends up murdering his employer and his wife, chopping up their bodies, and feeding their Ebola infected bodies to customers as "African Pork Buns (Notice any similarities)." After finding his employer's cash stash, Kai decides to return to Hong Kong; but not without a trail of bodies along the way.The secret of Ebola Syndrome's success is that it's not afraid to go completely over the top. Combined with genuinely funny humor, the film manages to be one fun ride. Anthony Wong gets to deliver a multitude of great lines with dead-pan nonchalance while he's ruthlessly dismembering or raping one of his many victims. I guess you have to have a dark sense of humor to get this film, and it's not for the squeamish- the autopsy scene is truly disgusting- but if ultra-violence is your thing, Ebola Syndrome delivers a wildly entertaining and sadistic ride.Bottom Line-If you like extreme cinema seek this out. A blissfully disturbing fun time.

Matthew Jaworski I have no frame of reference as to how much of this film was cut from the actually originally HK release. However after doing some serious research, I have come to the conclusion that this film is only missing 3 minutes from the original disease infested masterpiece. It appears that all current DVD versions of this film came from the same print (which is actually the only print known to be in existence). Therefore, this is the best version any of us are likely to ever have the pleasure of viewing...That being said, I found this film to be incredibly entertaining and highly amusing. Once again, director Herman Yau and Cat III Master, Anthony Wong have teamed up for an exploitative winner. The first film I had the pleasure of viewing from this winning team was the amazing 'The Untold Story'. That film was based on a true story and was much more serious in tone. This little gem was much more exploitative and over-the-top...I absolutely love the plot of this masterpiece. The movie starts out with a bang (literally). Anthony Wong is caught having sex with his bosses wife. He then quickly and violently dispenses with both of them. Now of course he needs to disappear so he heads to South Africa where he obtains work in a filthy restaurant. The price of meat becomes too much for him and his boss to handle so they head into the bush to acquire some 'bush-meat'. On the way back to the city he rapes one of the natives. This woman happened to have the Ebola Virus...Luckily for us, Mr. Wong is a rare one-in-a-million case of individual who will carry the Ebola Virus without succumbing to it's terrible deadly side-effects. The rest of the film is a joy to watch as Mr. Wong careless spreads the disease to the terrified populations of South Africa and Hong Kong in various entertaining ways...Anthony Wong is pitch perfect as the perverted psychopath and Herman Yau once again provides the deft direction needed to please use gore & sleaze fiends...I don't want to give away too much of the plot (like it matters), but as a fan of sleaze, exploitation, and gratuitous entertainment I can wholeheartedly recommend this sweet little film. If you are a fan of wonderful Cat III filth directly from Hong Kong, the 'Ebola Syndrome' does not disappoint....

jaibo This nasty little motion picture belongs to a class of Hong Kong cinema known as Category 3 films, movies expressly designed to appeal to the worst in cinema-goers of all ages, but preferably adolescents at heart. Ebola Syndrome boldly reaches depths of depravity and offensiveness which other movies can only dream of. I found it a curiously charming experience, which had the virtue at least of not being boring for a single second and of featuring some of the most relentlessly gratuitous moments which have ever been committed to celluloid. There's no excusing Ebola Syndrome; no self-regarding, heart-on-their-sleeve "I strive to be a better person" pundit will ever appear on your TV screen extolling its virtues and fibbing to you how it made them a better person, encouraged them to "go for their dream", awoke them from some terrible prejudice or made the world one iota of a better place. For this, if nothing else, it deserves some praise.Ebola Syndrome is jam-packed with enough plot for three films. It begins inauspiciously, with the low-life protagonist Kai - perhaps the least sympathetic character in movie history - being caught screwing his boss's wife and almost getting himself castrated. He fights his way out of the situation, bloodily kills the boss, his wife and a flunky, and goes on the run to South Africa. There, he slaves away in the kitchen of a Chinese Restaurant, underpaid and the brunt of his new boss's wife's contempt. One day, his new boss takes him to a local Zulu village (in pursuit of cheap meat supplies); it just so happens that the village is in the grip of an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus, which our dirty little protagonist proceeds to contract by raping a suffering tribeswoman on the banks of the village stream. This scene, with his coitus climaxing with her death rattle, is the most depraved moment in a film which truly earns the title of a feast of depravity. Kai turns out to be the one in ten million person who can contract the Ebola virus and not break out in its terrible symptoms: complete meltdown of the bodily organs coinciding with fits and frothing at the mouth. After killing his new boss and wife (this guy goes through bosses like Harold Shipmen went through patients), Kai returns to home as the Typhoid Annie of Ebola, with his least bit of bodily liquid (bloody, saliva, come) being highly infections, causing corpses to drops dead in his wake as an epidemic grips Hong Kong.It doesn't take a genius to work out that Ebola is being used here as a exaggeration of HIV, and so the film is a kind of hypochondriac maniac's nightmare of A.I.D.S. Kai is an enormously inflated hallucination of the fabled Patient Zero, the mythical A.I.D.S sufferer who supposedly took the virus round the capitols of the Western World in the early 1980s. By the film's absolutely berserk final moments, the anti-hero has progressed from a psychotic flunky with a brutal temper and a penchant for muttering about being "bullied" by all and sundry, to a walking, talking and running wild personification of infectiousness, careering around the streets, spitting infected saliva at people, screaming "Ebola! Ebola" before being shot at, set fire to and rubbed out like some creature from a 50s horror film. The adolescently mean-minded ending has a dog which has feasted on a bit of the dead Kai's flesh licking an ice cream which he is sharing with a little girl. No one is safe from Ebola, there is no cure, the whole world is going to hideous-death hell in a handcart.The film is, as I say, absolutely inexcusable. It is made for the worst of motives, by the meanest of minds (although palpably minds possessed of chutzpah, cheek, imagination and a goodly amount of film-making talent). It is flagrantly offensive to any civilised sensibilities. It is packed with gratuitous moments - such as a POV shot from inside the protagonists mouth, showing animated specks of saliva flying from between his rotten teeth - and includes what must be the single most gratuitous shot ever included in a film, where our hero's taxi runs over a rat FOR ABSOLUTELY NO REASON AT ALL. Anthony Wong's performance as Kai is utterly insane: grimacing and moaning, improvising little bits of mean activity to ornament every scene; it's one piece of acting which never was gonna win any Golden Globe award, yet he's absolutely mesmerising from start to finish, as it the rotten, stinking, mean spirited, foul-mouthed and dirty-minded film which showcases him. I am certain that Ebola Syndrome would give any movie a run for its money as the most offensive film ever made; equally certainly, it is one of the most entertaining and compelling films of all time, from its first 5 minutes which ticks off every exploitation ingredient in the book (rape, violence, bloody murder, cruelty to children and animals) to its insane, positively Pythonesque apocalyptic finale.