Review: Gong Tau – Cat III Horror From Hong Kong

Officer Rockman Cheung (Mark Cheng) has just lost his infant son to an extremely horrifying death and at the same time, his wife Karpi (Maggie Siu) has practically gone insane because of this tragedy and the constant, needle-like pain she is experiencing all over her body. The doctors are unable to determine the source and feel it is psychosomatic and suggest that Rockman take her to see a psychologist. But when some of Rockman’s fellow police officers start dying nasty deaths with hints of ritualism, it is determined that Gong Tau, the Eastern equivalent of voodoo, is at work and Rockman and his fellow officers are the target.  Who is actually behind these gruesome deaths and why, is all revealed in a fairly enjoyable throwback to Hong Kong’s blood-soaked horror “extreme” movies of the ’90s. It’s been awhile since a decent Category III – the equivalent to the Western X or NC-17 – horror movie has come out of Hong Kong but Gong Tau is here to remedy this problem…maybe. [Read more...]