Incannerax What a waste of my time!!!

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

Cassandra Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Vultural ~ Somewhere, this tasteless, trashy, over the top, gleefully perverse Hong Kong Cat 3 masterpiece is flying off the shelves. Anthony Wong may be best known as the villain in Hard Boiled or Untold Story, but for sheer sleazy glory, this one is in a category all by itself. Without giving too much away, after he rapes his boss's wife, then kills her and his boss, lowly cook flees to Africa. There is a massive outbreak of ebola, so he and a buyer drive to an infected village to buy dead cows cheap. Blinded by lust, the cook jumps a corpse and catches the incurable. Only, instead of dying, he becomes a carrier. As soon as he realizes that, sharing time begins. Hong Kong bad boy director, Herman Yau, made many films like this, but this exploitative jewel is the best.

Leofwine_draca Hong Kong's extreme Category III rating allows producers and directors to cater to the sickest desires of their audiences by focusing on violence, sex, sexual violence and scenes of depravity normally not found in mainstream cinema. During the 1990s, there was a boom in such productions, with the most popular inevitably starring Anthony Wong as some kind of crazed killer or pervert.THE EBOLA SYNDROME is one of the best-known of its kind and that's no surprise; this is one hell of a ride of a film, chock-full of bad taste scenes in which the writer tries to go out of his way to offend everybody watching. The protagonist, played by Wong, is a guy who goes around raping women and eventually contracting and spreading the Ebola virus, which leads to much unpleasantness.From the opening set-piece you know what you're in for with this one: tons of bad language, naked women and gross gore effects. The directors throws in animal dissection, autopsies and all kinds of sickening stuff involving food production that's guaranteed to turn your stomach. Rape and murder are commonplace, and yet at the same time there's daft comedy to offset the darkness. It's all portrayed so over the top and ridiculously that none of it is disturbing.What surprised me most about THE EBOLA SYNDROME is that it's a well made movie comparable with other Hong Kong films of the 1990s. The technical values are strong and the acting isn't too shabby either; Wong is a commanding actor and you can see why he's enjoyed mainstream as well as cult success. Yes, this is an unpleasant and sometimes childish film in the way it seeks out one depravity after another, but at the same time it's undeniably entertaining and it goes down avenues that Hollywood wouldn't dare. The ending rampage is by far my favourite part of the movie and has to be seen to be believed.

EVOL666 Oh, Sheeiitt!!! Where to start with this one??? I'll try to be brief with the summary: **** Spoilers Abound...**** Kai (Wong) kills his Boss because he get's caught f'ing the Boss's old-lady. On the run, he relocates from Hong Kong to South Africa and ends up working - where else - but a Chinese restaurant (wink, wink to THE UNTOLD STORY...). It obviously costs too much to buy pigs for the restaurant in the city, so Kai and his boss decide to be thrifty and buy their pork from some tribesman who live far outside the city - always a smart idea), and who obviously don't know the going rate of pork...Anyway, the village is infested with Ebola, and when Kai decides to rape a local girl during this excursion, he is infected. Just so happens that Kai is one of the 1 in ten million lucky individuals who can carry the Ebola virus without suffering it's hideous side-effects (extreme fever, epilepsy-like seizures, and liquefied insides, among other fun things...). Feeling cheated by his new Boss's low wages and the Boss's wife's constant nagging, he decides to kill them, too. After raping the Boss's wife and infecting her with Ebola, he hacks them up and uses their remains to make "African Buns" (basically a Big Mac, or Whopper, depending on your preference...). Kai "unknowingly" infects others while in South Africa, but upon finding the Boss's secret stash of cash, decides to "get-while-the-gettin's-good", and heads back to Hong Kong. There, he infects some hookers and some other random citizens and then goes back to his original Boss's old-lady for some "seems-like-old-times" pussy. Of course, our upstanding citizen infects her too, and is FINALLY apprehended by the cops. Kai runs the streets spitting on everyone in sight and screaming "EBOLA, EBOLA" like an absolute f'ing lunatic!!!! I gotta tell ya, friends...It doesn't get much better than this. The story (although rife with plot holes and idiocy) was one of the most refreshing things this sick-o has seen in a long time. Completely original, disgusting, yet laugh-out-loud hilarious - EBOLA SYNDROME is not one to miss. This type of thing is by far not for everyone, but if you've seen THE UNTOLD STORY, or DOCTOR LAMB (or almost any other HK Cat III perversion), then you know what you're in for. Casual horror viewers need not apply - for you "hardcore" heads out there, buy this one IMMEDIATELY. As good as THE UNTOLD STORY, and better than DOCTOR LAMB. 9 out of 10...Highly Recommended, and Gahdzuhentheit ;)

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....