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
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From these jaded American eyes, the film fails to be a gripping police procedural or creepy look into the mind of a killer. It is successful, though, as a look at how Hong Kong cinema was trying to ape American crime thrillers of the time, down to the lighting and ridiculous police banter. The film is graphic in
November 8, 2011
Super Reviewer
Dr. Lamb is a classic CAT III Hong Kong produced film by Legened Danny Lee and Simon Yam. I have been putting of seeing it for a long time but i did and well at first opinions are mixed... Story of a Taxi Driver who is a Killer by night but get's busted and tells his life story of the people he has murdered. It's a
October 24, 2011
Super Reviewer
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