Seeding of a Ghost (1983)

I have been a bold boy over the last few months and been neglecting the sleazier side of my viewing needs. It's swings and roundabouts for me in terms of what I watch, some months I will watch nothing but exploitation and 70's porn, then for the next 6 months it will be a straight up horror binge. There just isn't enough hours in the day to watch all the crap I wanna watch, but sometimes I just need a good gore and rape fix. Hey, it beats having to go down to the local park with a tyre iron to look for a victim...A good buddy of mine gave me a stack of Shaw Brothers flicks a few months ago. And after watching Seeding of a Ghost, I'm kicking myself for not jumping into these before. I can say with my hand on my sick little heart, that this is probably the most fun I have had watching a film in a long time.Philip Ko Fei is a taxi driver who happens to save a black magic sorcerer from an angry mob one dark night. The taxi driver's wife is a blackjack dealing cutie bored with her married life. She starts receiving the attention of a rich business man at the table and eventually starts having an affair with him. Soon this affair turns a tad foul, and she finds herself out on a lonely street late one night. Unlucky for her, she gets terrorized by two scumbags and they try raping her in an old building, but she takes a dive off the roof and meets a splatty end on the pavement.The taxi driver swears revenge on those who messed with her, so what does he do? He tracks down the black magic guy from the opening scene, and gets him in on the act. The sorcerer digs up her rotted corpse and summons her ghost. They then start playing pranks of the ghostly and murderous kind on her enemies, and it leads to a finale that has to be seen to be believed! Seeding is a definite slow burner. It does take about 50 minutes before things start going truly crazy, but even up to this point, the film is highly entertaining. You get plenty of nudity for one thing. There are slow motion topless jogging scenes, crash zooms and close ups of hairy groins, close ups of even hairier arm pits, and plenty of punch ups and random acts of violence and insanity to keep you going. We even get a cool sex scene between the corpse and a spirit! Fun times, my friends.The climax is where this one really takes off though. Taste gets chucked out the window with the exploding pregnant women and tentacled monsters. There is enough offensive sh!t here to keep most laughing. I have The Boxers Omen and Bewitched up next to watch, and I can't wait. Check this one out with a few brews, a blast and a boner is guaranteed.

Perhaps the extreme cinema of the Far East simply isn't my cup of tea, but I can't possibly be as praising about "Seeding of a Ghost" as most of my fellow reviewers around here. Moreover, if it hadn't been for the excellent last half hour and the downright brilliant end-sequences, I probably would have rated the film negatively. "Seeding of a Ghost" is a difficult film to get into… It's all very hectic at first, with the introduction of numerous characters and the entire plot synopsis as described on the back of the DVD happening in the first 10 minutes already. Oh yes, the least you can say about this Shaw-brothers production is that it's a spirited and outrageous film! An amiable-looking cab driver accidentally runs over a sorcerer and this uncanny figure promptly informs him that very BAD things will happen to him as from that moment. He sure isn't lying, as the cabbie's wife starts an extramarital relationship with a gambler and shortly after she's raped and killed by a duo of thugs. The heartbroken cab driver, after being suspected of the murder by the police, attempts to get back in contact with the sorcerer and develops a plan to wreak havoc upon everyone who was responsible for his wife's death. The whole building up to the supernatural vengeance (which is, according to me, the actual point of the film) is very incoherent and contains too many redundant moments. Considering the available budget, however, it's an adequately made film with a solid director and fairly stylish camera-work. Even though you sometimes haven't got the slightest idea what's going on, you keep watching because it's intriguing and because you inexplicably know that somehow your patient will be rewarded. And, indeed, then comes the sensational finale that instantly causes you to ignore everything that might or might not had bothered you until then. The gambler's pregnant wife literally SPAWNS a grotesque and hideous monster that repulsively butchers a whole bunch of unrelated party guests. It's a non-stop series of splattering blood and guts and it kind of feels like a crossover between John Carpenter's "The Thing" and Peter Jackson's "Braindead". You don't have to be a horror specialist to realize there are far worse films to get compared with! The make-up effects are deliciously nasty and the smutty monster is a very engaging little creation. It's one of the greatest closures to an average film I ever saw and it forced me to rate the wholesome rather positively after all. Recommended especially to cult-hunters and other sick puppies.

The plot of this sleazy HK piece of horror is fairly simple:Phillip Ko's wife is raped and murdered by a couple punks after being dropped off in the middle of nowhere by her lover named Fang.Ko hires a master of witchcraft and all hell breaks loose.With the help of the wizard Irene's would-be rapists meet a gruesome end and Fang soon gets his just deserts as well."Seeding of a Ghost" is loaded with soft core sex and some wonderfully over-the-top gore with the devil fetus on the bloody rampage.The acting is poor as are the production values,but I don't care.This Shaw Brothers-produced horror flick is entertaining and weird enough to satisfy fans of HK oddities. It's not as gruesome as "The Devil","Red Spell Spells Red" or "Calamity of Snakes",but if you like 'em sleazy and bloody you can't miss it.8 out of 10.

First off this film is pure exploitation. This is sex and violence and really gross, even by todays standards. Its not the best film ever made, but if you want gore and worms and gross things with your beautiful naked women this is for you. This film belongs in the exploitation hall of fame.A very bare bones explanation of the plot has a beautiful woman having an affair because she is bored with her husband of a couple of months. She wants to run off with her lover, who is also married, but he won't go. Getting out of her car on a lonely stretch of road she finds a phone and calls her husband who's cab driver. While she is waiting she is raped and killed by two guys. The husband uses the services of a black magician he once saved to get revenge on the killers and the lover. Its gross fun from that point on.The sex is early on as we see the very beautiful wife naked in the shower and having sex with her lover. Proving that this is exploitation at its finest we have a slow motion topless jog along the beach.This film has a reputation for being gross out royalty and its nice to report that this certainly is the case. This is a film that will have you going "yuck" quite often. Done before CGI this film is helped by knowing that what you see is what you get, people really are spiting up insects and such.The problem for me was that it seems oddly paced. Don't get me wrong the plot moves, but at times it seems a bit talky, which is odd since what you see is what you need to see and hear.See this film.I rated it as a 7 out of 10, but thats for most people who want to see a gross out horror film from overseas. For hardcore exploitation film fans or those who love gross effects this is a classic and should be 10 out of 10.