Shi yao

1981Movie⏱️ 1h 21m

CrimeHorrorMysteryThriller

⭐ 6.3

IMDB Rating

681 votes

A necrophiliac killer is murdering the prostitutes at Madame Lan's brothel.

Director

Chih-Hung Kuei

Writers

Chih-Hung Kuei, On Szeto

Stars

Ni Tien, Jung Wang, Tsui-Ling Yu

Release Date

October 7, 2008

Language

Cantonese, Mandarin

Country

Hong Kong

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Reviews

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🎭 Top Cast

Ni Tien

as Madame Lan

Jung Wang

as Inspector Chang

Tsui-Ling Yu

as Yen-Erh

Siu-Kwan Lau

as Lin Pin

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Erik Ka-Kei Chan

as Li Cheng-Yuan

Tat-Wah Tso

as Chief inspector Liu

Wei-Tu Lin

as Li Cheng-Wen

Ching-Ho Wang

as Drunkard

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Chun-Te Tai

as Deputy Liu Chun-Te

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Jenny Liang

as Li Hung-Mei

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio

1.85 : 1

Sound

Mono

Color

Filming Location

Hong Kong, China

Production

Shaw Brothers

🏷️ Keywords

prostituteslasherrepublican era chinafemale frontal nudityfemale rear nudity

🎯 Categories

CantoneseBody HorrorSlasher HorrorCrimeHorrorMysteryThriller

⭐ Featured Review

Dead and loving it/them

by kosmasp • 2024-11-21

8/10

"No pun intended - Shaw Brothers are best known for their martial arts movies - but they did try to reach out and make movies with different themes ... with directors that were trying to do different genres ... and we have one here. Now the movie did not age greatly in quite a few aspects. One of them being women and how they are treated ... or random quite offensive male character - with sexual preferences that are not consensual ... just saying. On the other hand there are quite a few interesting cases of special effects ... you still get to see "dummys". Better that way than havin..."