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The severed arms and legs of an old lady are washed ashore on a beach in Macau, something that leaves Officer Lee (Danny Lee) and his team  (Emily Kwan, Eric Kei, Lam King-Kong, Parkman Wong) baffled - until he receives a seemingly unrelated letter from Mainland China inquiring the whereabouts of Cheng Lam (Lau Siu-Ming), owner of the Eight Immotrals Restaurant. And interestingly, Cheng Lam is the son-in-law of the dead lady. Lee's men check up on the restaurant and find no trace of Cheng Lam and family, with the new owner Wong claiming they must have emigrated to Canada. However, his story isn't free of holes, and when Lee and company want to re-check on his statement, they curiously find his cashier (Julie Lee) gone. Wong claims she has returned to Mainland China, but lacks any real conviction, so Lee puts him under observation. And his suspicion is of course well-founded because only last night Wong killed the cashier, chopped her up, and worked her flesh into his delicious pork buns. Lee of course doesn't know that yet ...

Eventually, Lee gets his hands on Wong when he and his team find the passports of Cheng Lam and family in Wong's trash - which is pretty damning evidence but not yet a smoking gun, so they try to beat a confession out of him, but that only leads to newspaper reports about police brutality. But Lee figures there's another way to get Wong to confess, by throwing him into prison with Cheng Lam's brother (Shing Fui-On), as should the two stumble across one another, the brother will beat Wong to a pulp - and of course Lee sees to it that they meet. Wong makes many attempts to escape or to kill himself, but eventually Lee has him exactly where he wants him - but Wong's confession is harder to stomach than anyone could have expected ...

The Untold Story is a weird movie indeed, as on one hand it's ultra violent and a true gorefest, and on top of that very cynical about its own brutality - and on the other hand it's broad comedy, with most of the jokes slightly sexist in nature, and with the one female member of Lee's team (Emily Kwan) being on the recieving end of many of them. But while other films from roughly that era managed to blend ultra-violence and comedy to a homogenous whole - best example being of course Peter Jackson's Braindead -, the two very disparate elements just won't merge here and seem to stand in contradiction to one another, especially since the comedy does nothing to drive the story. Curiously though, these rather jarring shifts in tone really make The Untold Story into what it is, a very bizarre piece of horror that might be slightly aimless in regards to its direction but that most certainly doesn't fail to shock at all the right moments, and Anthony Wong's almost camp performance as lead psycho sure manages to leave a disturbing impression. Not a classic per se, but if one's at all into gore cinema, this sure is a must-see oddity.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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