12 WTF Horror Films You Need To See Before You Die

9. Ebola Syndrome (1996)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9bC03tgb_A

No stranger to playing slimeballs, Anthony Wong pulls out all the stops in this would-be comedy, portraying a character who when he’s not shooting his load onto a steak he allows to be served to a complaining customer, wets himself in public, blows his nose on undergarments in a clothes store and berates hotel employees who’re unable to procure prostitutes for him. And he’s the hero.

While working in a restaurant in Johannesburg, Wong witnesses a Zulu tribeswoman’s collapse and, sensing an opportunity, starts raping her (“these black babes are great!”). When he falls ill, he’s eventually diagnosed as having contracted Ebola, which he shrugs off and casually passes on to most of Johannesburg and, later, Hong Kong.

Any film whose protagonist sucks out a woman’s eyeball before snapping her neck and grinding her and her family into hamburger (which he allows to be served in his restaurant) could not, strictly speaking, be considered a laugh riot. That said, watching Wong, transformed into a human torch by flame-thrower wielding cops, charge down the street while screaming “How dare you bully me!” is pretty amusing, and when was the last time you heard a film’s protagonist say, “Your wife bullied me, so I screwed her”? 

 
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Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'