For this month of Halloween, the editorial staff of Konbini is preparing a horrifying series for you. From creepypastas to little-known horror films, including curses from elsewhere, a daily article will make you shiver until the Day of the Dead. today is really not the easiest. Neither to watch nor to defend. Because on paper, a film that presents a nasty, disgusting character, who rapes, kills, and where racism, gore, and other more than problematic aspects are mixed would not really have a place here, with us. And yet, Ebola Herman Yau Syndrome is the symbol of something else entirely. Explanations. See also on Konbini A last moment of freedom concerning the cinema, and the threat of strong censorship from the communist regime. In reaction, a movement was born: that of category 3.Understanding: going beyond the classification of the censorship committee for so-called embarrassing works, whether by their psychological or physical violence, for sex scenes or political messages. Some only went there to compile crap, each more trashy than the other, to shock or take advantage of the publicity that this can generate. Nevertheless, for some filmmakers, category 3 is imposed for the simple highlighting of social subjects that are too spicy for the regime. We are not going to lie to each other: Ebola Syndrome is a very crude and hard to watch category 3. The ban at least 18 years old is logical, as there are difficult scenes. We follow Sam, a restaurant worker who has to flee Hong Kong after sleeping with his boss’s wife. Landed in South Africa, exploited by an employer who knows his past and despised by his wife, he contracts Ebola by raping a sick woman in a village, and will more or less voluntarily spread the disease behind him. Cannibalism, scatology, exploitation of all types of bodily fluids, sexual disgust, infanticide, and even an autopsy where one scalps the skin of a patient’s face in a fixed shot: it’s all there, and it’s all there to shock. It is difficult to have empathy for this selfish monster, rapist, killer, who transforms his bosses into minced meat and has no pity for anyone. ‘Halloween? Because it’s not just a work that confines us to the limits of our cinephilia. It is also a reflection on the violence of everyday life. Because if the latter is the worst of bastards, no one will deny that it is a question, for him in any case, of a form of rebellion against the brutal and violent capitalist exploitation of a society which has no pity for the greater world. The answer is radical, too much, bordering on anarchy. But perhaps that’s precisely why the film has become the symbol of this movement. Hong Kong’s best-known, most representative and well-researched Category 3 film. yes, because Ebola is almost a remake. But if you want a form of disgusting, the choice is wide. From Takashi Miike’s Feminist Audition, to the recent foul horror of The Sadness, passing through some Saw (yes, we sincerely believe that the 3 and the 6 try to affix moral and political reflections not necessarily uninteresting), you have what to do.Ebola Syndrome is available on Shadowz, on VOD and on Blu-ray in a remastered version from Spectrum Film.
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