Ebola Syndrome (1996)
Reviewed by: Anticlimacus on 2007-11-12
Summary: What Are You People Thinking?
I'm perplexed as to why so many like this movie.

It's just another exploitation flick that relies on disgusting the viewer instead of enduring the inconveniences of skillfully crafting effective scares or interesting concepts. Anthony Wong infects people with the Ebola virus by raping, killing, and serving dubious assortments of meat at his restaurant. That’s it. The death scenes are decent and bloody (e.g., the autopsy scene, etc.), but everything else is badly done. The dialogue is especially awful.

And no, this film (if you really want to call it that) is not disturbing in the least. Disgusting? Yes. Disturbing? No. It takes a bit more than gory tripe to affect this viewer - perhaps some interesting character/storyline development would have been nice.

This is very similar to The Untold Story (another trashy film), and one wonders why the filmmakers even bothered to make another one. If you want to see a really good CAT III film, check out Dog Bite Dog (2006) - which blows Ebola Syndrome out of the water.

Reviewer Score: 4