Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Greenes Please don't spend money on this.

Glimmerubro It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Leofwine_draca DEVIL FETUS is a Hong Kong horror yarn very much in the mould of the films made by Shaw Brothers such as BLACK MAGIC, MO, and the like. It was produced by Lo Wei, the guy who once directed Bruce Lee in the likes of THE BIG BOSS and its ilk a decade beforehand. The film is lower budgeted than Shaw additions to the genre, but still manages to pack a great deal of ickiness into the running time, even if the titular spirit doesn't appear much.The story is about the purchase of an antique vase that releases an evil demonic spirit that impregnates a young woman before killing her. The spirit emerges from her stomach before being captured and subdued by a Taoist priest for a decade or so until an unfortunate accident sees it released to attack the woman's family members. Initially a dog is possessed before the spirit enters the body of a young man and all hell breaks loose from there.Films like DEVIL FETUS are quite predictable and tend to borrow the majority of their scares from Hollywood hits like POLTERGEIST and THE ENTITY while adding a distinctly Asian vibe all of their own and this is no exception. The cast give nondescript performances and the direction is nothing special, but there's a high level of cheesy special effects mixed with the odd bit of unpalatable animal cruelty (a German Shepherd and an eagle being ill served by this film's plot). Expect flying beds, apparitions, nudity, the vomiting of worms, and an outlandish climax packed full of supernatural mayhem. It's lowbrow stuff, but sure to delight horror fans regardless.

gorepump I had heard a few good things about "Devil Fetus", but unfortunately it didn't live up to any of the hype for me. Pretty much Dullsville without all the gore people had mentioned in the reviews I had read a while back.There's something to do with a vase that is bought at some Chinese auction. The chick who buys it starts getting all horned up and when her businessman hubby comes home to find her getting boned by a demon, he smashes the vase and his face gets all rotted and maggot-covered. Then he jumps out the window. Cut to years later, there's some spells, a couple of brothers who were around when the sh|t at the beginning went down and a love interest. One of the brothers becomes possessed by the malevolent demon from before and some random sh|t happens...The plot of this thing was SO f*cking arbitrary and disjointed. Definitely a weak example of CATIII cinema that did nothing for me. You got a worm-filled birthday cake, a dude munching on the guts of his dead German Shepherd and some ridiculous 'showdown' between the possessed guy and a samurai wizard - complete with laser-beams shot from eyeballs. It's all just so stupid and boring. Avoid.More Gorepump reviews at http://swinesewage.blogspot.com/

BA_Harrison With a terrific title and its Cat III rating, I was hoping that Devil Fetus would be the ideal antidote to some of the dreadful US horror output that I have seen recently. Unfortunately, with an incomprehensible story and risible effects, this low-budget Hong Kong effort is hard-going, even for a fan of bad movies like me.A woman buys a strange jade vase, which the seller says will bring her good luck. However, in reality, a nasty randy demon resides within the ornament and emerges from time to time to get it on with its new owner. When the woman's husband comes home to find the slimy creature banging his missus, he smashes the vase, releasing the monster in a cloud of smoke. The husband's face rots away and both he and his wife wind up dead.At their funeral, a priest witnesses the dead woman giving birth to the demon's offspring and attempts to trap it using magic. This works for a while, but inevitably, the 'devil fetus' is eventually freed and sets out to cause all sorts of trouble...From hereon in, things get kind of confusing (thanks to dreadful direction and lousy editing), with the creature possessing various people (and animals) and 'jumping' from host to host when necessary, and I found it a struggle to remain interested. When the viewing of a film takes me three consecutive nights to complete, I know it's a stinker! For those who manage to stay the distance, there is some half decent gore (my favourite moment being a head which is squished against a pane of glass), a couple of iffy moments involving real animals suffering for their art, and a whole shed-load of shonky visual effects (which include laser-beam eyes, flying furniture and what I can only describe as a multiple tentacled-head attack!).But for those looking for truly a satisfying outrageous and gory piece of Cat III fun, I would definitely recommend trying elsewhere.

EVOL666 DEVIL FETUS is another in the line of strange horror films that came out of Hong Kong in the 80's, before the big Cat III boom of true "roughie" exploit-style films. This one is pretty strange, as you would probably hope to expect from a film called DEVIL FETUS...This one starts off with a chick buying a strangely phallic vase at an auction. The seller advises her that the vase is meant to bring "good-luck" and she heads home with her new acquisition. Well, I think if I was her, I'd want my f!cking money back...Vase-owner becomes obsessed with the thing and when she starts fondling herself with it, a demon (that looks pretty much like a guy wrapped in bed sheets and covered in sh!t...) comes out and humps her. Her husband who's been away on business catches her at it one night, gets mad, and smashes the vase on the floor. Of course this isn't a good thing and the demon is released in a cloud of smoke that rots the husbands face off. Husband and wife both die, and at their funeral a priest notices the wife "give birth" to the offspring of her union with the bedsheet-demon thing. They try to contain it with some spells but apparently it doesn't work too well. From there on out, the demon's spirit jumps from host to host causing general mischief and un-merryment. It all gets kinda hazy from there, but there are some EXTREMELY ridiculous fight scenes (including some of the worst editing I've ever seen on film...)as various people try to exorcise the evil spirit...DEVIL FETUS just didn't live up to the hype for me. I had read several reviews claiming that the film was "gory" and "fun" and what-not...but I didn't get it. It's not really gory at all and it's more dull than fun. It may be that I've become slightly (or severely, depending on your viewpoint...) desensitized to this sort of thing because I had watched most of the truly rough Cat III HK stuff and "extreme" Asian ultra-gore films long before I got my hands on this one. I think if I'd have seen this 15 years ago it might have had more of an impact - but as it is, it just didn't. This would be a good starting point if you've never delved into strange Asian horror, but if you've seen any of the more "hard-core" HK/Japanese stuff of the last 10-15 years then you will probably just be bored. Recommended only to those who really have to see every strange film out there, or those who have never watched any Asian horror and can stand the $12 FX, editing and acting. 5/10