The Untold Story (1993) poster
1993 · category-iii · horror · crime

The Untold Story

Directed by Herman Yau1h 35m1993
ElsewhereIMDb6.85kTMDB6.3149
  • heavy
  • brisk
  • extreme
  • bleak
  • cold
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Heavy, kinetic, extreme category-iii / horror, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Macau cops begin to suspect a man running a pork buns restaurant of murder, after tracing the origin of a case full of chopped up human remains that washed ashore, which leads them to him.

Our read · The Untold Story (1993) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive category-iii · horror · crime entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want extreme CAT III Hong Kong horror based on real cannibal murders.

ends unsettlingit will wreck youa rollercoastergrips by minute 20attention 4/5earns its lengthsubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violencegoresexual violencenuditychild perilsuicide theme

Skip it tonightYou have any sensitivity to graphic gore, rape or child violence.

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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