
An abnormal taxi driver lusts for blood every rainy night, and several young women are killed as a result. The muderer, Laiu, likes to take photos of the victims dismembered bodies as momentos. Inspector Lee is called onto the case in this bizarre thriller.... (Full plot summary below)
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An abnormal taxi driver lusts for blood every rainy night, and several young women are killed as a result. The muderer, Laiu, likes to take photos of the victims dismembered bodies as momentos. Inspector Lee is called onto the case in this bizarre thriller.
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| User ReviewChristopher BSimon Yam goes loco in this wonderful Cat III classic. Truly disturbing scenes mixed with those wacky police and their brutal tactic. First time I saw this, well before I became accustomed to Cat III weirdness it confused the heck out of me. Why were there so many different genres in the same scene. One minute we see a brutal murder scene, played seriously, then there's a "light comical" scene with a dismembered breast. Now I love that crazy crap, but boy, it's not for the faint hearted. |
| User ReviewAdam LLam Kor-wan, the 27-year-old Hong Kong taxi driver who strangled four female occupants in 1982, later fielding dressing his victims in the family flat and preserving their sexual organs in jars earning him The Jars Murderer moniker throughout the media is given the full-court press in "Dr. Lamb," a Category III update of the proceeding year's made-for-television "Hong Kong Criminal Archives: Female Butcher" based on the infamous case also starring Simon Yam in the titular role. While not a provocation of Lam's gruesome crimes, recreated here in all the sordid details far too graphic for its televised predecessor, "Dr. Lamb" does at least -- albeit in brevity -- give one of Hong Kong's most notorious serial killers some semblance of context by attempting to understand what might have helped shape Lam's pathology. (The film's prologue portrays the serial killer as an anti-social adolescent trapped in a dysfunctional home with an onerous fascination with human sexuality). Given the Category III subgenre largely exits to exploit sex and violence "Dr. Lamb" rarely approaches its subject matter with the same nagging sense of cognitive dissonance much of Hong Kong wrestled with when the case went to trial. Was Lam simply a bad seed or actually clinically insane? Co-star, producer, and director Danny Lee fails to even approach the question -- he's too preoccupied with the specifics of Lam's sickening crimes (which, unfortunately for us, involved necrophilia) in addition to his own umpteenth turn as a hard-nosed investigator; however, with its chintzy lighting, sleazy cinematography, intermittent peppering of gross-out humor and occasionally over-the-top performances "Dr. Lamb" sort of works as a vice mag exploit of Lam Kor-wan's crimes which were tailor made for this brand of uber-lowbrow entertainment. |
| User ReviewJohn WFinally saw this one and the gore wasn't as good as I hoped but that's life. There was still some pretty decent stuff going on in this film. Laiu and I totally need to compare photographs some rainy day. |
| User ReviewJuuso LSo-so category III thriller about a sexually repressed man who kills girls and photographs them naked, believing he is carrying out some sort of divine duty on the impure. Like Danny Lee's more infamous film, The Untold Story, Dr Lamb is still tongue in cheek occasionally, though sometimes this unintentionally turns into farce. Not particularly gory or thrilling, it still manages to hold some likeable characterisation like Lee's other movies, which isn't always the case for films in this genre. |
| User ReviewMartin Sgruesome- i pity the actresses in this movie |
| User ReviewPaul MAt first you would be led to believe that there's nothing remotely nasty to have given this movie a Cat III rating as the opening 45 mins is just a straight forward story of the cops arresting a suspect of murder and trying to get a confession out of him. But once he starts telling the cops what happened, the red stuff starts getting shown on screen. But even then it's not terribly shocking. You do see a scalpel being plunged into skin around the breast of one unfortunate murder suspect and see blood being spurted around a room when a victim gets cut up with a buzzsaw. I've seen far worse in other Cat III gorefests such as Ebola Syndrome or The Untold Story (shot by the director and star of this movie Danny Lee the following year). Lee took some of the best aspects of Dr Lamb and upped the gore level in The Untold Story. Dr Lamb was the catalyst for a slew of Cat III grisly horrors to come out of Hong Kong. Believe it or not, the movie is also based on a graphic real life murder case. I've said it before but I'll say it again - Simon Yam is excellent whenever he plays a psychotic insane maniac just like the taxi driver in this movie. He portrays the killer as an OTT nutjob who howls like a dog, twists and contorts his face whenever he has killed a victim. Apart from Danny Lee as Inspector Lee who has nailed playing a cop to a tee due to similar roles in other movies, the rest of the actors who play the C.I.D officers are only average in their roles. I don't understand why there was a need to inject some silly slapstick comedy into this serious movie. It just looked out of place and stupid. Naturally this movie will disgust some people with it's content and it's certainly not for the squeamish. As for myself, I enjoyed this sleazefest especially Simon Yam's menacing performance. I'm sure this movie would not have been half so good if he wasn't in it. |
| User ReviewSteve KFrom these jaded American eyes, the film fails to be a gripping police procedural or creepy look into the mind of a killer. It is successful, though, as a look at how Hong Kong cinema was trying to ape American crime thrillers of the time, down to the lighting and ridiculous police banter. The film is graphic in places, but never believably so. |
| User ReviewKeiko AThis movie completely sucked. Not one redeeming thing about it. Nothing worth viewing. Not even Simon Yam. |