Review of Ling ye

Ling ye (1981)
4/10
An obscure Eastern exploitation oddity.
30 December 2018
No angels. No golden guns. What we do get is a badly dubbed, incoherent mess that is half women-in-prison flick and half revenge movie, seemingly the result of a Godfrey Ho-style splicing together of footage from two or more Asian obscurities.

The first half of the film sees a bisexual man posing as a photographer to abduct women working as models, shipping his victims to a camp where they are put to work as sex slaves. Meanwhile, a disco dancing undercover cop is captured by the bad guys, has his meat and two veg repeatedly whipped with a rod, and is tied up in a water tower.

At the camp, the women form two groups and have a massive cat-fight, which is intercut with a really nasty and totally random shot of a live hog-tied pig having its head split open with a cleaver (one of the nastiest real animal deaths I have seen in a film). Eventually, the women team up to mount an escape, which is not entirely successful: out of dozens of ladies, only three make it out alive.

This leads us to the second part of the film in which the trio seek revenge on the organisation that enslaved them, working their way through several bad guys (including the gay photographer) to get to the leader. They drown one guy by suspending him upside-down over a bath filling with water, and put a bag containing a snake over another man's head. Scared that he will ratted out by his men, the big boss sends some hit men to deal with his underlings, which results in some bloody shootings.

The film wraps things up with a fight between the undercover cop and the boss of the sex slave ring, both wrapped head to toe in bandages. Fight over, the crime boss is revealed to be none other than some guy we saw earlier on in the film -- I'm not sure who... I guess I wasn't paying enough attention.
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