OK, calm down. Now one gets raped in this movie. Actually the title is the only part of the movie that can be considered controversial. Besides the absence of any rape, the title also must be a bad translation because it doesn’t really make any sense. Some other version spell the title as Severily instead of Severly When I saw the title in my local Video store, I found the title so funny (yeah, I have a strange sense of humor) that I had to rent the movie.

This is a Category III Hong Kong film, and if you haven’t seen a CAT III, or any HK film for that matter, then I would suggest NOT to rent this movie. CAT III means that the film may contain nudity and or violence, but in fact most HK CAT III films are hilarious. CAT III does not restrain but rather encourage directors to show almost everything. This includes both gore and sex scenes (but not hardcore). Soon CAT III became a genre and then a style. Unfortunately there is not gore in this movie. Nor much sex.

Severly Raped was produced in 1998 and stars Elvis Tsui (yeah, his name is funny too), who is a legendary CAT III actor. His filmography includes many more funny named movies such as:
Hong Kong Spice Gals
Water Margin: Heroes' Sex Stories
Sex and Zen I,II,III
Chinese Erotic Ghost Story
Chinese Torture Chamber Story
Ancient Chinese W**r*house (no, it's not warehouse), and last but not least
Eternal Evil of Asia (you got to see this movie…)

The plot seems simple, but the subtitling was so bad, I might have missed something. Fok is 40 years old and he is still a virgin. His friend Kam is desperately trying to help Fok overcome this delicate problem. So, they travel to Hong Kong, Kam meets BoBo who then introduces Fok to Ling. After a couple of soft core sex scenes, Fok’s epic quest is over. The four of them spent some pleasant time and everything is fine. 45 five minutes of the movie have past and not much has happened, and we can’t have that, can we? Well, it turns out the both BoBo and Ling are prostitutes. They disappear with all of Fok and Kam’s money, only to be briefly seen again in the company of their pimp by our tragic heroes. Defeated, they return to their homes (at least they weren’t raped).

That’s it. That’s the end of the movie. No one was raped, no revenge was exacted and there was’t any underlying message and in fact nothing very interesting happened, as you would expect from the title. There are lengthy monologues of course, which are badly translated and perhaps a major plot point might have eluded me because of that, but I doubt. The film tries to be a comedy, but it’s not funny at all (as opposed to Robotrix, or Eternal Evil of Asia). It also tries to be a drama, but fails miserably. The acting is very poor and so is the production in general. The only good thing about it is that the female actresses are quite good looking.



Recommended:
No

Viewing Format: DVD
Video Occasion: None of the Above
Suitability For Children: Suitable for Children Age 13 and Older