Rating of
3/4
Warning: Not for the Faint of Heart!
Chris Kavan - wrote on 07/21/08
One a 1 to 10 on the perverse, disturbing scale, this gets cranked all the way to 11. For those not familiar with Cat III films, it's a division of Hong Cinema that deals with everything from pornography to gristly exploitation films. Ebola Syndrome is a little of both, though it seems to be parodying itself.
As the plot says, the film follows a degenerate man as he rapes and kills indiscriminately - and he happens to catch the Ebola virus and be one of ten millions who carries the disease but doesn't die from it. He then goes on a merry Ebola-spreading spree, including serving human hamburgers (infected of course) to unwary patrons.
As a person who is always looking for something to shock and / or disturb, I was not disappointed. This isn't a movie you want to watch with the family, though it would make a great midnight movie double-feature with Ichi the Killer. I think this was a tongue-in-cheek film by Cat III mainstay Herman Yau. There's no way you can take this seriously, because it is so out there.
