Horrible High Heels (1996)

This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Good title, totally inept movie. The score is actual cues from the soundtracks of NEAR DARK, BODY DOUBLE and PHANTASM.A shoe company depends on human skin for its leather. Not a great business plan, but it works for a while.This is a sleazy little number with a generous helping of rapes, dismemberments and stabbings. Some of the more horrific scenes display a little style, but, overall, this is a very amateurish attempt to jump on the DR. LAMB/LOVE TO KILL/UNTOLD STORY bandwagon.Shing Fui-On, who has seen much better days, plays a wheelchair-bound crime boss who conducts his shoe wholesaling business at a card table under a freeway. "Betrayers must turn out to be the merchandise!" is his business motto. Another not-so-great business plan, but it works for a while.When a couple discover the severed head of a missing friend, they see the discovery as an opportunity to get married. When the killer cuts a bitchy woman open and holds up her entrails for viewers, he declares: "I will have my shoe business soon!" The same bitchy woman is forced (earlier on) to caress her bloody breasts with a dead hand and kiss a head. Yes, it's that kind of movie, and no thought was given to its script, if in fact there ever was one.The close-ups are mismatched, the softcore sex is bungled, and the final shoot-out is ludicrous.As a lesson on how not to run a business and how not to make a horror film, much can be learned from HORRIBLE HIGH HEELS.

Category III rating of Hong Kong cinema was created to classify those films filled with extreme violence and graphic sex,allowing them to be released free from censorship.Unfortunately "Horrible High Heels" is a slightly boring Cat III shocker that offers plenty of sex and some grisly gore.A sadistic killer has been skinning dead bodies and using their skin to make shoes.He sells such products to some unknowing shoemakers whose shoes are praised for their comfortable soft leather."Horrible High Heels" is a pretty depraved flick,but it's nowhere nearly as powerful as "Red to Kill" or "The Untold Story".The killings are mean-spirited and sadistic(the dismemberment of a young Chinese woman is especially memorable),but there is absolutely no suspense.The film is pretty hard to take seriously and the acting is absolutely bad.The sex scenes are plentiful and the sleaze factor is pretty high.Overall,"Horrible High Heels" is a mildly enjoyable piece of HK exploitation,so if you liked "Ebola Syndrome" give this one a try.6 out of 10.

I actually bought--sight unseen--an obscure import DVD of this film, so my expectations might have been higher than those of someone just looking to rent. But in all honesty, I can't even recommend it for a low-priced rental.I was willing to settle for something only half as disturbing and well-crafted as The Untold Story or Dr. Lamb when I ordered this DVD. I'm addicted to being disturbed; that is to say, I have intense admiration for violence, cruelty, brutality, and gore in films. So if a film contains enough of these elements, I can forgive other shortcomings. Unfortunately, Horrible High Heels isn't very disturbing to the jaded--yes, there's a decent helping of gore, but I've seen worse (or do I mean better?) in any dozen Italian zombie/cannibal films, and in quite a few Asian films as well. This is irrelevant, though, because its other shortcomings are so severe that no amount of barbarism could sway my low opinion of it.The film's greatest flaw is that it's utterly incoherent. This is actually an odd statement coming from me, because I'm normally a huge fan of incoherence, especially when it's intentional--for example, when it's used to instill a sense of confusion in the viewer that mirrors the mental state of the film's protagonist. But the incoherence in HHH is the result of nothing more than an abundance of filmmaking ineptitude. If this ineptitude were at least comical, I might still have enjoyed the film, but it's simply perpetually frustrating and inappropriate to the narrative. In many sections, it's as if the editor decided that shot sequence was arbitrary, and simply spliced the shots together in random order.And so on. To make a long story short (too late), don't waste your money. If you've seen Cannibal Ferox, City of the Living Dead, Organ, Men Behind the Sun, and the like, this film will not fulfill your mayhem jones, and it will irritate you besides. If you DON'T like your entertainment brutal, for god's sake why are you reading about this film?

If you want to watch this movie after my comments I will suggest you use the fast forward button. This movie is very confused..it is poorly acted and lousy written. I could forgive all this if it was groundbreaking in any way, but no. It´s about this shoefactory were people disappear and end up as fine quality shoes. All the characters are unpleasant, so who cares who kills who. There is a subplot involving some local thugs - an excuse to make some lame shootout in the end. The only good thing about this movie is a lot of softcore scenes, but it cant save this turkey. A fair amount of blood though, if anyones interested.