Ebola Syndrome (Herman Yau, 1996)
Probably one of the most offensive entries in the list, "Ebola Syndrome" revolves around Kai San, a fugitive who ends up in Johannesburg after killing his boss and his wife. While there, he finds work in restaurant. The actual plot initiates when his boss takes him with him to an Ebola infected virus to buy pork meat. While there, Kai rapes and kills a local woman and contracts the disease.
However, he appears to be immune to the disease and soon after je embarks on a killing spree that begins by raping, killing and dismembering his boss and his wife, and serving them as hamburgers to customers, passing them the virus.
Herman Yau directs a film so despicable that eventually becomes funny, although in a highly
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Lastly, Anthony Wong is great in the protagonist role, elaborately portraying a genuinely evil character.
Bio Zombie (Wilson Yip, 1998)
Kind of a parody of "Dawn of the Dead" and "Braindead", "Bio Zombie" is a comedic approach to the zombie genre.
The largely incoherent script revolves around two low-level triads, Woody Invicible and Crazy Bee, who sell bootlegged DVDs at a stall and eventually are caught in a situation where a soft drink has been mixed with a bio-weapon that turns people into bloodthirsty zombies.
Wilson Yip directs a hilarious film where the tone is constantly switching from drama to horror to comedy while retaining many splatter notions, including graphic violence, cannibalism, and many images of bodily fluids. The film, however, is very entertaining and even artful, at moments, particularly due to the chemistry between Jordan Chan and Sam Lee, who feature in the protagonist roles.
The Eye (Pang Brothers, 2002)
Twenty year old Mun, a violinist living in Hong Kong, has been blind since the age of two. After receiving an eye cornea transplant, she starts seeing some bizarre entities that seem to predict violent
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Rigor Mortis (Juno Mak, 2013)
Co-produced by Takashi Shimizu, creator of the "Ju On" franchise and functioning as a tribute to the "Mr. Vampire" film series, with many of its cast also featuring here, "Rigor Mortis" is also the debut Juno Mak, a prominent singer-actor of the Hong Kong scene.
Siu Ho, an ex horror films star suffers from severe depression over his failed career and the loss of his family, which leads him to a failed suicide attempt. After this acts, he finds himself living in an estate for retirees that eventually is proved haunted. The estate also accommodates housewife Feng, seamstress Auntie Mui amd two Taoist masters, canteen operator Brother Yau and Gau. Eventually, a vampire appears in the builiding.
"Rigor Mortis" features a not-so-impressive combination of psychological thriller and horror film, particularly due to the somewhat confusing storyline. However, the impressive production values and particularly the stunning visuals make up for the script's lack of elaborateness, along with the cast, which consists of 80's film stars, including Chin Siu Ho, Kara Hui and Anthony
The novel, “The Hot Zone”, by Richard Preston, is an extraordinary tale about a virus called the Ebola virus. The author interviews a number of different people that all had encounters with the virus and records their stories. He is very interested by what they tell him and throughout the novel he is always seeking to find more information about it. There were many different encounters in this book but in my summary I am going to explain the ones that interested me the most.
Dan Dalgard, the veterinarian who cared for the monkeys, feared they were dying. from Simian Hemorrhagic Fever, a disease lethal to monkeys but harmless to human. The sexy of the human. Dr. Dalgard decided to enlist the aid of the United States Army Medical. Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) to help diagnose the case.
In Richard Preston’s “The Hot Zone” there is the overarching theme which is that nature is a power that dwarfs the achievements and power that humans possess. This lends to the consideration that humans should strive to understand the viruses and diseases that nature “throws” at the human race. Preston uses gruesome imagery, and characterization to persuade the reader to take the direction of overcoming the viruses and horrors of nature through research to better society.
Some would say watching horror movies and being scared out of your wits is a fun way to spend their hard earned money. They go see these movies on average once a week, each time choosing a newer version of a trilogy like “Chucky” or “The evil Dead”. Film making has come a long way over the last few decades, the graphic...
As of late, society has stolen the traditional idea of a vampire. These undead creatures are manipulated in countless genres and media, ranging from comedic reliefs and complex villains to sparkly heartthrobs. Songs, video games, movies, books, and TV shows all are guilty of this. Movies in particular have done the most with vampires, and clearly show their evolution in society’s eyes. In the earliest movies such as Nosferatu; directed by F. W. Murnau, and Dracula; directed by Todd Browning and Karl Freund, vampires are used as devices of horror. They are meant to be unhuman and terrifying. As time passes, they become portrayed in sympathetic lights and with more human traits. Emotions such as love, guilt, and fear were added to vampire vocabulary,
The zombie sequence has become extremely popular with the increase of novels and films recently produced. George Romero and Maximillian “Max” Brooks are two popular screenwriters focusing on zombie stories and horror films. George Romero is an American-Canadian film director and producer best known for his horror film Night of the Living Dead (Staff, 2012). Max Brooks is an American horror author and screenwriter best known for his novel and now film World War Z (Staff, 2012). Romero and Brooks are both zombie fanatics who have many similar interest in undead creatures and numerous differences as well. The ideal view preferred in society is fast-moving zombies. Both authors scripts reflect this preference. Romero and Brooks are both talented authors in showing others their beliefs in zombies.
A zombie is a monster that has been a horror movie legacy for many years now. Zombie is defined as “a dead person who is able to move because of magic according to some religions and in stories, movies, etc.” Zombies haven’t always been the creature that we see today though. George A. Romero merged the old-forgotten zombie into the standardized version we see today. James Conroy writes, “With his 1968 film Night of the Living Dead, George Romero brought the concept of the slow-moving, flesh-eating zombie into mainstream American culture.” (1) Night of the Living Dead not only set an iconic image for zombies, but it also brought issues you would not normally see in a Zombie film, dealing with race and gender stereotypes.
This virus is similar to Ebola, because it started in the same place. Lab workers in Germany, in 1967, contracted the new virus while working with African Green Monkeys, which had the virus. The virus is described as a hemorrhagic fever. It has a fatality rate up to 90% and spreads through human to human contact. The first symptoms can be as simple as a fever and a headache, then can progress to organ failure, and fatal internal bleeding.
Too many horror films provide scares and screams throughout their respective cinemas. Not many viewers follow what kind of model the films follow to appease their viewers. However, after reading film theorist Carol Clover’s novel, watching one of the films she associates in the novel “Halloween”, and also watching the movie “Nightmare on Elm Street” I say almost every “slasher” or horror film follows a model similar to Clover’s. The model is a female is featured as a primary character and that females tend to always overcome a situation at some point throughout the film.
Horror movies have been part of mainstream cinema since the early 1930s when films such as Dracula and Frankenstein were created. As the horror genre evolved, so did the stories in the films. Friday the 13th (Marcus Nipsel, 2009) is a very good example of this evolution. Even though it is a remake, Friday the 13th changed the way horror movies were seen by the audience. The ideas and theory behind this slasher sub-genre of horror films can be summed up in a book. Carol Clover, an American professor of film studies, wrote a book in 1992 entitled Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film in which she described the horror film genre. In a chapter entitled “Her Body, Himself”, Clover describes how weapons play a very important role in horror movies as well as explaining her Final Girl theory. Her book’s ideas changed not only academic notions but also popular beliefs on horror films. The 2009 remake of Friday the 13th implies that Carol Clover’s ideas about 80s slasher films, including male tormentors, the importance of weapons, and the Final Girl, have stayed the same through the years.
In 1976 the first two Ebola outbreaks were recorded. In Zaire and western Sudan five hundred and fifty people reported the horrible disease. Of the five hundred and fifty reported three hundred and forty innocent people died. Again in 1995 Ebola reportedly broke out in Zaire, this time infecting over two hundred and killing one hundred and sixty. (Bib4, Musilam, 1)
Ebola started its first outbreak in West Africa. According to the World Health Organization (2014) “Ebola first took place in 1976 in 2 simultaneous outbreaks, one in Nzara, Sudan.., in Yambuku, Democratic Republic of Congo... [and the] latter occurred in a village near the Ebola River, from witch the disease takes its name”. The disease has also started spreading through countries such as Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia (which are West Africa countries).
Horror films are designed to frighten the audience and engage them in their worst fears, while captivating and entertaining at the same time. Horror films often center on the darker side of life, on what is forbidden and strange. These films play with society’s fears, its nightmare’s and vulnerability, the terror of the unknown, the fear of death, the loss of identity, and the fear of sexuality. Horror films are generally set in spooky old mansions, fog-ridden areas, or dark locales with unknown human, supernatural or grotesque creatures lurking about. These creatures can range from vampires, madmen, devils, unfriendly ghosts, monsters, mad scientists, demons, zombies, evil spirits, satanic villains, the possessed, werewolves and freaks to the unseen and even the mere presence of evil.
I believe she is a vampire because they bolt down the coffin hoping she will not escaped. As some days pass his mental condition worsens...
The setting of the movie takes places in the jungle of Zaire where an outbreak had already occurred. The monkey from the jungle was the carrier/host of the pathogen. The monkey was then captured and held in a government storage facility and then traded to a local pet shot in a small community. The infectious agent was the Motaba Ebola Virus.