Oily Maniac Directed By Meng
Hua Ho Starring Danny Lee (1976).
It
starts off with a murky sewage covered behemoth erupting from an oil slick
while a credit montage of monkeys climb up trees and hurl coconuts in
Malaysia. This is not the usual Shaw Brothers fare, it’s more of a rubber
monster movie with some nudity and it’s a blast! The Yang Clan, a bunch of hawaiian
shirt wearing thugs are trying to muscle in on a deed for an inherited Coconut
Oil factory. The deed was given to Mr. Sheung a man crippled by polio who is
the anti-hero of our feature tonight.
His
Uncle Ah Ba gets captured and sent to death row but has a secret for Fu Sheung
(played by Danny Lee), a Malay spell that will transform him into a hulking
avenger who must do right or suffer consequences worse then death. Shueng’s
corrupt boss Mr. Hu is responsible for all the shitty things in his life and
like all villains in this flick, they will soon end up monster mashed!
After
getting drunk one night he finds the magic spell, which tells him to dig a hole in the middle
of the floor in his living room. Once he journeys beneath a pool of sludge, he
transforms into the oily monster (or maniac). His uncle's daughter is almost
attacked, but he stops them in the form or a chroma keyed puddle that sluices
in unsuspected. There's a random rape trial that interrupts the flow alittle
then it goes back to Uncle Ah Ba's daughter, who Shueng is pining for. She
doesn't love him and he’s pissed off and believes that she rejects him just because
he's crippled. He has a chip on his shoulder about having to walk on crutches
and takes out vengeance through his monster incarnation and half the time it’s
unmerited rage.
When he becomes the creature, a similar
theme to Jaws is heard and he can even fill up at a gas station and transform.
Shueng
really flies off the handle and jumps to conclusions and kills before thinking
(he strangles a random girl in the bathtub). Later on, he overhears about a
botched surgery and mistakenly breaks into a vaginal rejuvenation doctor's
operating room and kills everyone! Sheung is able to transform at will and
always uses his powers for evil, which is what his uncle warned him not to do.
Whenever he wants to turn into the oily maniac all he has to do is jump into a
bucket of toxic grease. There is not much gore in this one for a Shaw Brothers flick, but
it’s highly entertaining and worth checking out! The same director who made
Black Magic and Mighty Peking Man helmed this one, think of it as the
inspiration for The Toxic Avenger and a distant relative to Swamp Thing (who
debuted in 1971).
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