Man-Ying
goes to the jungles of Borneo looking for his lost uncle. Not five minutes into journey does he run into
a gang of killer lepers. He kills one of
them and there's a cool Wolf Man-style transformation scene where the leper
turns back to normal. Man-Ying learns the
evil witch doctor Abdula put a curse in the guy and sets off into the jungle.
In
another awesome sequence, Abdula casts a spell on a native woman who’s getting
frisky with her boyfriend in a nearby stream. He turns her into a fanged killer and she bites
her boyfriend’s penis off. Then, the camera
cuts to another native in the jungle eating a banana. Brilliant.
Along
the way, Man-Ying falls in love with Filona, the goddess who protects the
jungle. When he goes back home to settle
his uncle’s affairs, she places a curse on him and tells him not to mess around
with another woman. Naturally, he can’t
keep his dick in his pants.
If
you thought the editing on the banana-biting scene was great, wait till you see
the part where Man-Ying is getting it on with a chick he picked up at the
club. Just as he's about to climax, they
cut to a shower head shooting water. I
love it. This is just the set-up for
the centerpiece of the movie. It’s
essentially the Psycho shower scene, but with snakes. (Later, there’s a staircase death that’s also
reminiscent of Psycho.)
Things
sort of take a nosedive in quality during the third act though. It’s here where Man-Ying goes back to Borneo
with a detective to prove that he is in fact, under the curse of Filona. None of this is as compelling or as memorable
as the craziness of the first hour, and the finale where Man-Ying and Filona
square off against Abdula is lame too.
It’s
also odd that Man-Ying pretty much takes her back, no questions asked. The fact that she killed two women out of
petty jealousy is never brought up, nor does the detective arrest her for the
crime. (I guess the fact that Filona was
in Borneo at the time gives her an airtight alibi.) Still, would YOU want to marry her if she
uses snakes to kill anyone you bat an eye at?
After all, relationships that are built on this kind of distrust are bound
to go up in smoke eventually. Besides, can
you imagine what THAT divorce would be like?
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