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aka Gin gwai 2.
Joey (Shu Qi), a girl from Hong Kong, who is holidaying in Thailand, makes the classic cry for help suicide bid. Once recovered she returns to Hong Kong, but starts seeing visions of dead people. Then she's told she is pregnant. With her boyfriend avoiding her she is tortured with thoughts of the unborn child, as well as a mysterious woman who seems to be stalking her. All the while her fragile mind wavers in and out of sanity.
A pervasive evil lurks throughout the film, aided by a number of fine set pieces, but it never quite attains the heights reached by the first film. Still it is a fine Asian horror, that addresses the Buddist belief in re-birth and karma.
As the titles roll, a man walks alone in the desert, dragging a coffin. He comes across Maria (Loredana Nusciak), who is being beaten, and naturally rescues her. It is then revealed that he is Django (Franco Nero) a man determined to confront the local gangs led by Major Jackson (Eduardo Fajardo) and General Hugo Rodriguez (José Bódalo). But why the coffin, and what's in it?
In Django Sergio Corbucci has crafted what is considered to be one of the finest spaghetti westerns. Shot through with religious symbolism, and intense cruelty. Each man we meet is worse than the next, from racially bigoted preachers, to sadistic Mexican gangs. Years before Reservoir Dogs, Corbucci has a man force fed one of his own ears. A violent, but beautifully shot paean on life and death in the lawless west, where no one wins in the end.
aka The Freakmaker. Dr. of Evil.
Professor Noller (Donald Pleasence) is a biologist determined to give nature a nudge, or rather a wholesale kicking! He starts creating his own genetically engineered animal plant hybrids using students from a local college. He is aided by Lynch (Tom Baker), the deformed manager of a freak show. Alls going well for the pair until a visiting Professor (Brad Harris) from the US comes to view Noller's research, helped by some students (including Julie Ege, Jill Haworth and Scott Antony) who are given the task of looking after the visiting VIP, but they soon get closer to the research than they want!
A slow paced horror that combines Todd Brownings Freaks, with The Island of Dr Moreau. It has some interesting moments, but as a whole is an average horror. One for those who like the Brithorror genre, otherwise you'll probably better giving it a miss.
aka Gin gwai 2. 
