Di yu wu men (1980)

Director:

Hark Tsui

Writers:

Roy Szeto (writer)
Hark Tsui (screenplay)

Release Date:

2 April 1980 (Hong Kong)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Horror | Thriller

Plot:

A secret agent investigates a village that is populated by crazed, inbred cannibals. |

Plot Keywords:

Cannibal | Secret Agent | Impalement | Raft | Knocked Out

Cast

  (Credited cast)

Norman Chu	...	Agent 999 (as Norman Tsui Sui-Keung)
Eddy Ko	...	Captain (as Hung Gao)
Melvin Wong	...	Rolex (as Kam-seng Wong)
Kwok Choi Hon	...	Pickpocket
Mo-lin Cheung	...	Lin
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Feng Feng	...	Village Head
Tin Sang Lung	...	Lin's brother
Kei Mai	...	Rolex's friend
Yung-sheng Pan	...	Zebra
Gwa-pau Sai	...	Villager
Kam Siu	...	Daughter of Village Head
Tin Nam Tam	...	Villager
Siu-Ming To	...	Blind Man
Choh Lam Tsang	...	Boatman
Hung Tse	...	Scholar
David Wu	...	Bisected Victim

Also Known As:

Hell Has No Gates
Kung Fu Cannibals
No Door to Hell
We're Going to Eat You (Hong Kong: English title)

Runtime:

Finland:87 min (25 fps) | Hong Kong:90 min

Country:

Hong Kong

Language:

Cantonese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:K-18 | USA:Unrated | West Germany:18 (cut) | Germany:BPjM Restricted

Company:

Seasonal

Movie Connections:

References Suspiria (1977)

Soundtrack:

Witch

Crazy Kung-Fu/Gore/Cannibal/Comedy Hybrid...

WE'RE GOING TO EAT YOU is definitely one of the stranger films I've seen in a while...and honestly one of the more enjoyable. It's a very strange hybrid of kung-fu action, cannibal horror, and comedy - with some really off the wall scenes, and some decent gore.

This one has a special government agent (known as agent 999) who goes to a remote island village to track down and arrest a notorious thief. Turns out the villagers are all cannibals who dine on unsuspecting visitors. Gore and hilarity ensue early on as our hero has numerous misadventures with the local townspeople which include various freaks, crazed mask-wearing butchers, a giant transvestite, and the towns chief - a greedy dick who hordes all the "meat" for himself and his security team, leaving almost nothing for the townspeople to live on.

This could have been a really dark film considering the subject matter, but WE'RE GOING TO EAT YOU is intentionally handled as a comedy with all sorts of goofiness to lighten the film - including the insatiable transvestite that doesn't take "no" for an answer, and a hilarious kung-fu segment involving roller-skates and fire-crackers. Many cross-genre films don't really work - but WE'RE GOING TO EAT YOU pulls it off. A great Sunday afternoon diversion - especially with a few drinks in ya...8/10