EVOL666 Not my favorite CATIII film - but LOVE TO KILL is a suitably sleazy and twisted genre entry that is a definite must-see for CATIII fans. Anthony Wong is at it again in another classic scumbag role, and he shines as usual in this type of material.Wong plays a wife abusing asshole whose wife has gotten tired of his violent ways. With the help of a friendly cop, she and her son stay with the officer while she tries to straighten out her affairs. Wong figures out what's going on and is determined to get his wife back at all costs...LOVE TO KILL has all the sleazy sex and violence that CATIII fans have come to love. It drags in a few parts, but is overall entertaining and Wong steals the show as always. I believe that my copy is chopped in a few scenes, but the end of the film is sufficiently tense and violent. Definitely one of the stronger films of the genre which rightfully earns it's reputation amongst other CATIII classics...8/10

fertilecelluloid As Category III sleaze goes, this may be Anthony Wong's finest hour, if not his second finest. Perhaps his finest is "The Untold Story", perhaps not. I loved him in Ringo Lam's "Full Contact" and the recent "Infernal Affairs", but "Love To Kill" occupies a special place in my dark heart because it's so unrelentingly grim and nasty.Wong plays a violent, jealous husband (and father) who treats his wife like crap and rapes, assaults and humiliates her constantly. He also incarcerates her in her own apartment and forbids her to have any friends. His son isn't treated any better and is witness to much of the defilement his mother bears.Danny Lee ("The Killer"), a local cop (what else?), befriends Wong's wife after learning of her predicament and hatches a plan to save her from her brutish husband. Naturally, Wong is at odds with Lee's good intentions and a bloody confrontation looms. When said confrontation occurs, the gore flies and the corpses crash to the floor. Even Wong's son gets the sharp end of his father's stick."Love To Kill" is sensational exploitation, a film that goes all the way and keeps going until it becomes repugnant and has alienated most reviewers... and that's what makes it so admirable. Several versions exist, and the version I caught has an end credit roll over shots not appearing in the movie. These shots feature Wong's wife in a graphic bondage scenario and wearing a long chain as she clutches the bars of her front door.Wong is hissingly convincing and the music score insinuates itself into your soul.Add it proudly to your vile collection.

Joseph P. Ulibas Love to Kill (1993) is another rough ride that is the Category III cinema. Anthony Wong stars as a brutish and controlling husband who always keeps his wife (Elizabeth Lee) and son in check. After another sadistic night of love making, Elizabeth takes her son and leaves the flat. She seeks refuge in a police station. A nice but skirt chasing cop (Danny Lee in an out of character role) takes a liking to her and the kid. He agrees to let them stay at his flat. His live in girlfriend is out on a modeling assignment. Whilst Elizabeth is living their, Lee begins to have erotic day dreams about Elizabeth in various situations. Across town, Anthony is beginning to snap. He fantasizes all the time about what's Elizabeth is up too and who's she sleeping with. Feed up, he goes to Elizabeth's sick mother and waits for her. He sees her with Inspector Lee and he loses it completely. After stalking him some more, he sees her girlfriend coming home and savagely assaults and rapes her. Still not satisfied, he collects his son and wife and takes him to a house that he was having built for his family.The mother-in-law, son and wife are all present. Armed with an ax and other tools, Anthony decides to have some fun and games with his family. He chases them all around the house. Lops of the mother-in-law's head and continues to brutalize his wife. We learn that Anthony's parents were both crazy and he watches one of them kill the other when he was a child. Elizabeth and Anthony go at it one on one, using whatever's handing to punish each other. Anthony is bludgeon, stabbed and slashed to death. Inspector Lee and the cops arrive but it's too late for her mother. The film ends with Elizabeth walking the streets of Hong Kong reliving the events of the movie in her mind and possibly losing her sanity.Whoa, more craziness from Hong Kong. The movies that would come out later would try to top these earlier Category III releases but they could have never achieve the level of madness that made the first batch of C3 films so great. Adults only, no kiddies allowed.Highly recommended.

HumanoidOfFlesh "Love to Kill" is directed by Billy Chung and it also stars Anthony Wong as a sadistic husband that tortures and abuses his wife and this leads the thing into a typical hyper strong HK terror cinema climax that is filled like the whole film with extreme violence and brutality.This film is easily among the most outrageously sick Cat III films ever made as it features plenty of misogynistic violence and several nasty rape scenes.Like my friend Bogey Man noticed there are two versions of "Love to Kill":the pretty rare Taiwanese DVD with subtitles and the unsubtitled HK DVD which turned out to have longer and nastier rape scene of Julie Lee on the table,near the end.There is also an insanely bloody axe decapitation that left me stunned.I think that the whole film is redeemed by a gritty performance by victim Elizabeth Lee as well as the dependably creepy Anthony Wong.The climax is brutal and horrifying but it never reaches the levels of intensity of "The Untold Story" finale.Still this film is so extremely rare that I'm glad to have it fully uncut in my collection.7 out of 10.