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Fear Factors

Hong Kong/Taiwan/China 2007
produced by
Tony Leung Hung Wah (executive), Liang Hung-Chih (executive, segment Subconscious) for Motion Times International
directed by Cousin Mak (segment Subconscious); Wong Ka Fai & Wang Tao-Nan (segment Crazy Analysis)
starring segment Subconscious: Chang Tzu-Yao, Candy Lo, Kno Tang-Yu, Luu Shu-Tung, Xiao Bao; segment Crazy Analysis: Terence Yin, Tiffany Lee, Hui Siu Hung
written by Polly So (segment Subconscious), Aric Lung (segment Crazy Analysis)

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Subconscious:

It should have been easy: Dinosaur (Kno Tang-Yu) and Sister (Candy Lo) simply wanted to grab victim Ah Wah (Chang Tzu-Yao) and hold him for ransom at an abandoned warehouse, but something goes horribly wrong when they first accidently stab him, then a thief (Xiao Bao) who's at the warehouse by coincidence, locks Sister in with him, and then the thief also kills Ah Wah's girlfriend Sze (Liu Shu-Ting), who has come to his rescue. And in the end, only Sister makes it out of the warehouse alive, and that only after killing Dinosaur, thinking he has crossed her ...

Crazy Analysis:

Tin King (Terence Yin) has to spend three nights in his deceased uncle's abandoned office building in order to inherit it ... thing is, the place might be haunted. And soon enough, he meets a crazy bum (Hui Siu Hung), a female ghost who turns out to be blind deaf-mute Yuk (Tiffany Lee), and a violent watchman. And when Tin King thinks he has sorted everything out anyways for his final few hours in the building, Yuk turns out to be neither deaf nor mute nor blind, but a knife-wielding maniac - and essentially, she drives Tin King into committing suicide ... when everything turns out to be just an experiment, with dead Tin King having been the guinea pig. But wait, Tin King isn't really dead, he has teamed up with Yuk - only an actress hired by the experiment's leader who has turned against him - to sabotage the experiment ... and thus, everybody loses, even Tin King, who has at one point tried to rape Yuk, and now she's going to report him for it.

 

Fear Factors is made up from two featurettes that, concerning their stories and narrative build-up, couldn't be more different:

Subconscious is an experimental featurette that repeats telling its same basic story, but each time from a different perspective, and thus it only gradually reveals the complete picture. This might sound a little brain-heavy, but in the case of Subconscious, the experiment actually works out to make up a nice and entertaining genre picture.

Crazy Analysis on the other hand is pretty much a straight-forward horror comedy with a far-fetched set-up and a rather silly pay-off. However, what happens in between is not bad at all, and while it might not be wholly original, it profits greatly from a moody direction and a few pretty funny bits.

In all, although Fear Factors is incredibly uneven concerning its two segments, the segments for themselves are pretty well-made (with Subconscious being the superior by far) and entertaining enough to make the film well worth watching.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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