Devil Fetus
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Directed byLau Hung-chuen
Written byWen-Hua Cheng
Ging-Jiu Lo
Ging-Jiu Lo
Produced byLo Wei
StarringShirley Lu
Lau Dan
Eddie Chan
Lau Dan
Eddie Chan
| Devil Fetus | |
|---|---|
Original Hong Kong release poster | |
| Directed by | Lau Hung-chuen |
| Written by | Wen-Hua Cheng Ging-Jiu Lo |
| Produced by | Lo Wei |
| Starring | Shirley Lu Lau Dan Eddie Chan |
| Cinematography | Lau Hung-chuen[1] |
| Edited by | David Wu |
Production company | Lo Wei Motion Picture Company |
| Distributed by | Golden Harvest |
Release date |
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Running time | 86 minutes |
| Country | Hong Kong |
| Language | Cantonese |
| Box office | HK$ 3,920,445 |
Devil Fetus (魔胎) is a 1983 Hong Kong horror film directed by Lau Hung Chuen.
A woman buys an antique vase, which contains a demon that is unleashed to cause mayhem and take possession of people it encounters.
Cast
- Eddie Chan as Kent Cheng
- Pak-Kwong Ho as Mr. Cheng
- Hsiu-Ling Lu as Juju
- Ouyang Sha-fei as Granny Cheng
- Lau Dan
Production
The soundtrack of the film includes "La Petite Fille de la Mer" from the Vangelis album L'Apocalypse des animaux (1973).[1] It also contain samples from Ennio Morricone's soundtrack for the John Carpenter film The Thing.[1]
Style
John Charles, author of The Hong Kong Filmography 1977–1997 referred to the film as part of Hong Kong's "early '80s gross-out cycle" of horror films.[1]