It's been thirteen years since my IMDb review for Daughter of Darkness, so my memory is a little hazy, but this sequel, which was made the year after the original, seems to follow the same formula: lots of typically wacky bad-taste HK comedy with a little gratuitous sex/nudity, followed by the nasty stuff.
The film opens with bumbling cops investigating the killing of a family, which results in such hilarity as the sexual molestation of a (presumed dead) woman, group masturbation, and the eating of a semen covered mango by a big-chested female cop. I can't say I found any of this particularly funny, but each to their own.
Thirty minutes or so of such silliness and we're finally headed for the more extreme content that Cat III films are renowned for: sexual violence, rape, murder, and more. It all starts as suspect Sau (Yim Lai Cheng) recounts her story to the police chief...
Sau and her husband Ken (Ben Ng) are driving through the countryside when they swerve off the road to avoid hitting some people; instead, they almost run over thug Hung (Ka-Kui Ho), who demands compensation with menace. Friendly local Kun (Dick Lau) comes to the couple's rescue and offers them a place to stay while their car is fixed.
Kun quickly becomes good friends with the couple, but clearly has an eye for the lovely Sau, which is why Ken, impotent as the result of a war wound, asks him to perform a favour: impregnate his wife so that he can have a son. Obviously Kun agrees, especially since Ken is willing to pay handsomely for the task!
Having thoroughly enjoyed himself, Kun decides he wants more of the lovely (and accommodating) Sau, but this time they are photographed in the act by Hung and his son. With proof of Sau's infidelity, Hung demands a large sum of cash from Ken in return for the photos. While they wait for him to find the money, the blackmailers take Sau to their home, where they rape her, to the amusement of Hung's equally wicked wife.
Ken finally arrives with the money and leaves with his wife, who goes to the doctor to find that she is not only pregnant but also infected with syphilis. There's only one thing for the lady to do: in the film's most nauseating moment, Sau takes a coat hanger and performs a home abortion in the shower. Unfortunately, Ken just happens to catch her in the act, and goes to find Hung looking for revenge, which results in him being roughed up and chucked in front of a moving truck.
With Ken gone, Sau turns to Kun for help in evening the score, but when he leaves (after bonking Sau one last time, of course), it is up to her to take revenge, which she does in a variety of nasty ways, including the use of a board of nails, a bear trap, a big knife and a sharp bamboo pole.
In following the blueprint of the original, DOD2 doesn't qualify as an essential classic of the genre (it's no The Untold Story or Red to Kill), but the exploitative sex, nudity, and violence should keep most fans of Cat III nastiness happy for the duration.
6.5/10, rounded up to 7 for IMDb.
The film opens with bumbling cops investigating the killing of a family, which results in such hilarity as the sexual molestation of a (presumed dead) woman, group masturbation, and the eating of a semen covered mango by a big-chested female cop. I can't say I found any of this particularly funny, but each to their own.
Thirty minutes or so of such silliness and we're finally headed for the more extreme content that Cat III films are renowned for: sexual violence, rape, murder, and more. It all starts as suspect Sau (Yim Lai Cheng) recounts her story to the police chief...
Sau and her husband Ken (Ben Ng) are driving through the countryside when they swerve off the road to avoid hitting some people; instead, they almost run over thug Hung (Ka-Kui Ho), who demands compensation with menace. Friendly local Kun (Dick Lau) comes to the couple's rescue and offers them a place to stay while their car is fixed.
Kun quickly becomes good friends with the couple, but clearly has an eye for the lovely Sau, which is why Ken, impotent as the result of a war wound, asks him to perform a favour: impregnate his wife so that he can have a son. Obviously Kun agrees, especially since Ken is willing to pay handsomely for the task!
Having thoroughly enjoyed himself, Kun decides he wants more of the lovely (and accommodating) Sau, but this time they are photographed in the act by Hung and his son. With proof of Sau's infidelity, Hung demands a large sum of cash from Ken in return for the photos. While they wait for him to find the money, the blackmailers take Sau to their home, where they rape her, to the amusement of Hung's equally wicked wife.
Ken finally arrives with the money and leaves with his wife, who goes to the doctor to find that she is not only pregnant but also infected with syphilis. There's only one thing for the lady to do: in the film's most nauseating moment, Sau takes a coat hanger and performs a home abortion in the shower. Unfortunately, Ken just happens to catch her in the act, and goes to find Hung looking for revenge, which results in him being roughed up and chucked in front of a moving truck.
With Ken gone, Sau turns to Kun for help in evening the score, but when he leaves (after bonking Sau one last time, of course), it is up to her to take revenge, which she does in a variety of nasty ways, including the use of a board of nails, a bear trap, a big knife and a sharp bamboo pole.
In following the blueprint of the original, DOD2 doesn't qualify as an essential classic of the genre (it's no The Untold Story or Red to Kill), but the exploitative sex, nudity, and violence should keep most fans of Cat III nastiness happy for the duration.
6.5/10, rounded up to 7 for IMDb.