Ahh, come to daddy

Here it is!! The ultra ultra ultra rare UK precert VHS release of Dennis Yu's ultra violent Hong Kong video nasty THE BEASTS. The film is from 1980 (some sources say 1981) and apart from being a legendary horror-rape revenge film it's also an important entry to the original Hong Kong new wave films. Very happy to have finally got hold of this tape. I wonder if it's uncut. o_O
EDIT: Yes, the UK pre-cert is uncut.


In regards to HK new wave films: It's a label used for first time directors who made gritty movies about life in HK around 1980. There's a Wiki article here (unfortunately, the author includes both John Woo and Wong Kar-Wai in that article and that's just silly! They probably did it because often in the west you get the impression those two directors basically CREATED the Hong Kong film industry. Kar-Wei didn't make his debut until 1988 for crying out loud! And the well-dressed gangsters of John Woo's films hardly portray real life lowlife crooks on the street).

THE BEASTS (Hong Kong, 1980)

aka FLESH AND BLOODY TERROR

Directed by Dennis Yu.

VHS / UK / FS or LBX? / English dub / no subs / uncut pre-cert release / original version


This is the fully uncut ORIGINAL version of THE BEASTS. The bootleg company Video Search of Miami "released" a version they called FLESH AND BLOODY TERROR which cut out dialogue scenes and added hardcore porn inserts. This version is not an official edit and quite frankly it's an awful version!!! No, I'm not being prudish here but if I wanna watch HC porn I'll watch a HC porn movie. I have no wish to see an awesome film from HK's new wave genre ruined by infantile horny dickheads. ;-)

There is a DVD from Hong Kong (Cantonese with English subs, lbx) but I'm told it's cut by a minute or so. I haven't compared the two versions myself. However, the HK DVD is a good enough version so if you can't get the Dutch VHS (or a dupe of it) you'll be well served with the HK DVD.



VHS / Holland / letterbox / English dub / Dutch subs / uncut / original version

The above tape from Holland presents the very best version of the film: fully uncut and letterboxed - but the cover is an abomination, haha. Just who is that gwilo dude on the cover? He sure as hell isn't in the movie!! The by far (very far!!) best cover is the awesome pre-cert release from the UK (the top scan).



THE BEASTS on mega rare VHS from Korea.


[click scans of the UK and NL covers for bigger size]


I'm not sure if this is an official trailer or a fan made one - but in any case it's a pretty cool one!




Thanks to Matt (a nice Québécois who fortunately lives in Korea) who got me the Korean scan. His blog "Unknown Kino" is in the blog-roll on the right. And thanks to Teade in Holland who got me the Dutch scan (and later sold me a different copy of that release!).