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逃出珊瑚海 (1986)
Escape from Coral Cove


Reviewed by: AkiraRus
Date: 12/06/2009

If not a fact that it has Elsie CHan in swimsuit it would be a terrible movie - not frightening but extremely boring. Besides, VCD is heavy cut for violence - even the sort when a girl kicks a boy in the groin. For a horror movie it's a deathmark.

Reviewer Score: 4

Reviewed by: STSH
Date: 02/18/2001
Summary: Not bad, and unusual

Well, unusual for HK. A competently-made and very well-photographed thriller/horror film with almost no special effects, fairly low on blood'n'gore but nevertheless delivers a few shocks (if rather mild ones). Also, this is the only HK film I've seen with such lovely (or, for that matter, any !) underwater photography.

Interesting for the intro of two well-known actors, Alex Fong and Elsie Chan. Alex displays a commanding presence, and must have shown potential even then. And Elsie took every opportunity to flash her excellent cleavage in a very flattering swimsuit.

But there's no nudity here, so the credit of "naked woman" at the bottom of the cast list is a puzzle. If there was a naked woman anywhere there, she must have been well-covered.

The subtitles were nice and large but, unfortunately, they mostly feel out of the bottom of the frame.

The story is unremarkable, following the conventional normal-life-gradually-gets-creepy formula, with several nods to JAWS. The ending is clearly telegraphed at least twenty minutes before, so the end is almost a groan, and a bit hard to swallow.

Overall, pretty good and undemanding.

Reviewer Score: 6

Reviewed by: pjshimmer
Date: 10/29/2000
Summary: awesome!

a spectacular, magnificent horror extraveganza that is about as good as is gets. Featuring many Asian actresses and actors among the most popular during the 70's and 80's. Not one to be missed! [10/10]