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WE'RE GOING TO EAT YOU

Dir. Tsui Hark, 1980.
Hong Kong. 90 min.

A grim fantasy about Mainland China, Harks second directorial effort took the form of a sort of Hong Kong New Wave version of THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE. While on the surface, the film is much simpler than Harks densely plotted debut, it dips into multiple genres while working as a steely anti-communist allegory that probes the relationship between Hong Kong and China.

The films follows Secret Agent 999 of the Central Surveillance Agency, as he pursues a mysterious thief named Rolex. The hunt leads him into a cannibalistic village, where residents subsist on visitors they capture and cook. The film is part horror, part Kung Fu, and part slapstick comedy, and Tsuis most overtly anti-communist film (although it treats religion, intellectuals, and bourgeois romanticism with equal satirical acridity).