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Dr. Lamb

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Dr. Lamb
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1hr 29min
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1992
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Tai Seng
Synopsis: Popular Hong Kong actor Simon Yam, who had previously portrayed serial killer Lam Guo-wen in a television miniseries, plays his fictionalized counterpart in this gore-soaked exploitation film from producer-director Danny Lee. Starting with Lam's difficult childhood, the story then moves forward to the police capture of Lam after he submits film containing images of a naked woman who appears to be dead to a photo developing lab. The police tactics are quite brutal, but despite beating Lam repeatedly, ... Full Synopsis
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This shocker from Hong Kong is a suitably grim affair but doesn't have the power its cult reputation suggests. The first problem is the script, which presents the psychology of its killer in an amateurish, unconvincing style and also inserts a distracting amount of bawdy, often slapstick humor into a story where it doesn't belong. Another problem is the odd, often silly way in which the story is enacted: ... Full Review
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Lam Guo-wen
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