Friday, April 12, 2019

Girl with a Gun (1982)

Yin Hsia plays an unfortunate girl, mute after being orphaned who is raped on the way home. And when she gets home she disturbs a burgular who tries to rape her again, but she grabs an iron and clobbers him. Then she cuts his corpse up and puts it in the fridge... as you do. She grabs his gun and begins a one-woman crusade against anything male... No it's not a comedy.

The action is furious, the shootings are rather unrealistic (she doesn't seem to aim very well but shoots them stone dead every time), especially in the gang fight scene which borrows heavily from one of the best films of all time The Warriors. The action even takes place in a fairground (but its not Coney Island obviously).

Alan Tam plays her boss and at the end she is invited to a party which involves ...er... limbo dancing. But by now the police are on her trail as her landlady has become suspicious, investigated her apartment and found something rather ewww in the fridge. Best not tell her though that Yin Hsia has already fed the landlady's cat human meat. Burp!

And Yin Hsia ends up in the asylum. She doesn't utter a single word throughout the entire film. Which is probably just as well as the film doesn't score highly for acting, though does for the sheer nonsense of the revenge plot.