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When he defends his coconut oil plant against some crooked
businessmen, Ah Ba accidnetly kills a man & is thus sentenced to
death. Before dieing he puts his daughter Ah Yue (Chen Ping) in the care
of Sheng Yung (Danny Lee), even though this man is disabled due to
suffering from polio. To fix that, Ah Ba also lets him in on a family
secret he has learned from his father a shaman, but at first Sheng Yung
has little use for that, but after Ah Yue rejects him because of his
polio, rather willing to face the world & its dangers alone, Sheng
Yung grows curious & tries the magic on himself - a magic that
causes him into an invulnerable monster with the ability to turn into a
blob everytime he covers his body in oil.
This ability comes in pretty
handy when he passes by Ah Yue's house where some gangsters are already
getting ready to rape the girl - gangsters he kills. In his monstruous
form, he soon becomes famous as the Oily Maniac, but in his human form
he is still the crippled weakling Sheng Yung, whose proposal Ah Yue
rejects, instead dating Fu Sin, who is in cahoots with the crooked
businessmen who killed her father. Such facts are turning Sheng Yung
more & more into a woman hater, & he soon starts killing evil
women he learns about at Hu's lawfirm he works at, like Miss Lam, a
woman that charges men with rape for money, or Miss Yoko, a crooked
plastic surgeon. The only person who learns about his double identity
(apart from a pimp whom he kills, too) is his co-worker Xiao Ly (Lily
Li), who is in love with him, & tells him of a crooked plan to sell
off the coconut oil plant & sell off Ah yue into prostitution that
is made up by both Mister Hu, the boss of their lawfirm & Ah Yue's
lover Fu Sin. Even though Xiao Ly tries to stop him from taking
revenge into his own hands, even warns his prospected victims &
spills the beans to the police, Sheng Yung as the Oily Maniac kills all
the evildoers, before being killed himself by Xiao Ly - apparently the
only one clever enough to know that oil might burn when lit - with a
burning torch. Though based on an old folks tale but
mordernized, Oily Maniac has more in common with American
pulp-comics about superheroes with a darker twist, like Swamp Thing
(also a strong visual resemblence) or The Incredible Hulk, but on
a much more misogynous level. However, if you're willing to not take the
movie & especially its woman-hating tendencies seriously, it's an
entertaining sci-fi-horror romp, with no real substance but high trash
value. |
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