Devil Fetus

Hong Kong, 1983, directed by Hung Chuen Lau

35mm, 88 minutes, screening Friday, Oct 29th at 7:00 pm

A birthday cake full of worms; a possessed maniac eating the entrails of an exhumed German Shepard; a slimy green demon forcing himself on helpless women; a man squished to death by the walls of a sauna. Few other movies…OK, no other movies can boast the goofy but inventive gross-outs in Hong Kong filmmaker Hung Chuen Lau’s DEVIL FETUS.

The madness begins when a woman is compelled to buy a rather phallic-looking jade statue at an auction. When she brings it home its demonic sexual power takes hold, and her husband catches her fondling it in bed. After making quick work of him, it turns on her. An old mystic finally imprisons the evil in a shrine, but years later one of the couple’s sons’ girlfriends accidentally breaks the seal, reawakening the curse. The demon possesses the family dog before literally beaming into the younger son, who sets about killing, molesting and eating whoever he can get his mitts on. Influenced by The Exorcist and shaped by early-‘80s special effects, DEVIL FETUS also features a have-to-see-it-to-believe-it exorcism full of fiery swords, animated eye laser beams, and flying puppets.

Devil Fetus

October 26 - 31

for more info call: 780.433.0600