Thank you Keith Li for reminding me that I still can get physically sick while watching a movie. I thought that I had become numb to such a thing and then i watched your 1982 blast of insanity, Centipede Horror.
Centipedes may not get much love - well, they did get a video game back in 1980 - but they're pretty horrifying. All centipedes are venomous, most are carnivorous and they can inflict painful bites that inject poison through their pincers. And they don't just have a hundred legs. Nope, they can have anywhere from 30 to 382 legs.
A rich young woman named Kay goes to Thailand, despite her grandfather warning her to never visit there. Of course, as you can guess from the title of this movie, she's assaulted by hundreds of centipedes, which causes her wounds to fester and bubble as only a category III would can become. She dies, which brings her brother Wai Lun to Thailand to watch her die and then get on the case of who did this to her.
If only she had worn the ugly necklace that was to protect her from centipedes! Yet as we all know, fashion can be dangerous.
Wai Lun brings his friend Yeuk-Chee along to figure out how they can make up for the crimes of his grandfather and stop a wizard's curse. A wizard who curses and uses ghost children in his nefarious plans! This movie has it all and by all, I mean thousands of centipedes, including Margaret Li - who plays Yeuk-Chee - being an absolute trooper by sitting there with a mouthful of live centipedes crawling around her mouth waiting for Keith Li to say action so she can throw them up all over the place.
So yes, the pace is slow, it even drags until we get to the sorcerer battle at the end. But a reanimated chicken skeleton shows up and, yes, we have the heroine blowing centipede chunks and how can you ask the filmmakers to give us more than that?
Centipedes may not get much love - well, they did get a video game back in 1980 - but they're pretty horrifying. All centipedes are venomous, most are carnivorous and they can inflict painful bites that inject poison through their pincers. And they don't just have a hundred legs. Nope, they can have anywhere from 30 to 382 legs.
A rich young woman named Kay goes to Thailand, despite her grandfather warning her to never visit there. Of course, as you can guess from the title of this movie, she's assaulted by hundreds of centipedes, which causes her wounds to fester and bubble as only a category III would can become. She dies, which brings her brother Wai Lun to Thailand to watch her die and then get on the case of who did this to her.
If only she had worn the ugly necklace that was to protect her from centipedes! Yet as we all know, fashion can be dangerous.
Wai Lun brings his friend Yeuk-Chee along to figure out how they can make up for the crimes of his grandfather and stop a wizard's curse. A wizard who curses and uses ghost children in his nefarious plans! This movie has it all and by all, I mean thousands of centipedes, including Margaret Li - who plays Yeuk-Chee - being an absolute trooper by sitting there with a mouthful of live centipedes crawling around her mouth waiting for Keith Li to say action so she can throw them up all over the place.
So yes, the pace is slow, it even drags until we get to the sorcerer battle at the end. But a reanimated chicken skeleton shows up and, yes, we have the heroine blowing centipede chunks and how can you ask the filmmakers to give us more than that?