Pretty Good

Nice effects though.

Absolutely brilliant

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Anthony Wong brings the madness again here in Love to Kill. He plays the sexually deranged husband who suffers some from serious sexual and past issues. His poor, cute wife is the victim of his sexual desires (reading sexy talky to him and acting like she's getting all hot and bothered, while he roughs her up in more ways than one), and she's had enough. Bring in the cops, whom one ends up falling for the lass, and a kinda game of hide and seek for Anthony so he can get his wife back. End with your classic CATIII over-the-top last act and you have a pretty solid flick.Love to Kill was a pretty good CATIII flick. It had the manic acting job by Wong, some choice sleaze scenes that would haunt any girl's dreams, and a cool and violent ending. But there were some lulls in this flick. Any scene with the cops girlfriend, or with any cops for that matter were pretty boring, and didn't bring much to the table. And I was kinda surprised in the lack of nudity. The actress who played the wife, the lead victim, doesn't even show her goods. Not even a nip. And the chances are numerous. You'd think that wouldn't be a big deal, which it normally wouldn't be but with a CATIII flick, it is. You normally bask in the nudity, but here you only get a couple boobs shots which were more for comedic effect than anything else.The flick itself did have that classic dirty CATIII sleaze feel, but ultimately didn't really end up delivering the goods until the final act. Kinda disappointing. But luckily the story delivered with Wong, the non-nudity sleaze, and a pretty realistic approach to child-hood trauma. Without the trauma aspect, this would be a CATIII to possibly pass on, but with it, it's one any CATIII lover should definitely see.I just happened to see that there are two versions out there, one with subs and one without. I hear the one without is the true Uncut version. I guess it really just depends if you want a tad more sleaze. I'd say pass on the unsubbed one, cause I don't think the leading lady is showing any of what she's got.

Not my favorite CATIII film - but LOVE TO KILL is a suitably sleazy and twisted genre entry that is a definite must-see for CATIII fans. Anthony Wong is at it again in another classic scumbag role, and he shines as usual in this type of material.Wong plays a wife abusing asshole whose wife has gotten tired of his violent ways. With the help of a friendly cop, she and her son stay with the officer while she tries to straighten out her affairs. Wong figures out what's going on and is determined to get his wife back at all costs...LOVE TO KILL has all the sleazy sex and violence that CATIII fans have come to love. It drags in a few parts, but is overall entertaining and Wong steals the show as always. I believe that my copy is chopped in a few scenes, but the end of the film is sufficiently tense and violent. Definitely one of the stronger films of the genre which rightfully earns it's reputation amongst other CATIII classics...8/10

Love to Kill (1993) is another rough ride that is the Category III cinema. Anthony Wong stars as a brutish and controlling husband who always keeps his wife (Elizabeth Lee) and son in check. After another sadistic night of love making, Elizabeth takes her son and leaves the flat. She seeks refuge in a police station. A nice but skirt chasing cop (Danny Lee in an out of character role) takes a liking to her and the kid. He agrees to let them stay at his flat. His live in girlfriend is out on a modeling assignment. Whilst Elizabeth is living their, Lee begins to have erotic day dreams about Elizabeth in various situations. Across town, Anthony is beginning to snap. He fantasizes all the time about what's Elizabeth is up too and who's she sleeping with. Feed up, he goes to Elizabeth's sick mother and waits for her. He sees her with Inspector Lee and he loses it completely. After stalking him some more, he sees her girlfriend coming home and savagely assaults and rapes her. Still not satisfied, he collects his son and wife and takes him to a house that he was having built for his family.The mother-in-law, son and wife are all present. Armed with an ax and other tools, Anthony decides to have some fun and games with his family. He chases them all around the house. Lops of the mother-in-law's head and continues to brutalize his wife. We learn that Anthony's parents were both crazy and he watches one of them kill the other when he was a child. Elizabeth and Anthony go at it one on one, using whatever's handing to punish each other. Anthony is bludgeon, stabbed and slashed to death. Inspector Lee and the cops arrive but it's too late for her mother. The film ends with Elizabeth walking the streets of Hong Kong reliving the events of the movie in her mind and possibly losing her sanity.Whoa, more craziness from Hong Kong. The movies that would come out later would try to top these earlier Category III releases but they could have never achieve the level of madness that made the first batch of C3 films so great. Adults only, no kiddies allowed.Highly recommended.

"Love to Kill" is directed by Billy Chung and it also stars Anthony Wong as a sadistic husband that tortures and abuses his wife and this leads the thing into a typical hyper strong HK terror cinema climax that is filled like the whole film with extreme violence and brutality.This film is easily among the most outrageously sick Cat III films ever made as it features plenty of misogynistic violence and several nasty rape scenes.Like my friend Bogey Man noticed there are two versions of "Love to Kill":the pretty rare Taiwanese DVD with subtitles and the unsubtitled HK DVD which turned out to have longer and nastier rape scene of Julie Lee on the table,near the end.There is also an insanely bloody axe decapitation that left me stunned.I think that the whole film is redeemed by a gritty performance by victim Elizabeth Lee as well as the dependably creepy Anthony Wong.The climax is brutal and horrifying but it never reaches the levels of intensity of "The Untold Story" finale.Still this film is so extremely rare that I'm glad to have it fully uncut in my collection.7 out of 10.