According to the semi-review over at Yesasia, this movie (directed by Chan Siu-chuen) was supposedly the debut of Taiwanese pop singer Eric Suen, whose face appears the largest on the sleeve below, and who's listed in the DB as Eric Sung. Searching this spelling on the web brings back next to nothing, while searching Eric Suen brings back a ton of websites, so I think his listing should be updated to reflect the accepted spelling of his name, with Sung as an alias perhaps.
As to the movie itself, it's should come as no surprise that Eric was not asked to contribute a pop ditty to the soundtrack, as the filmmakers had already secured contributions from friggin' Aerosmith, Madonna, and Guns N' Roses! And I'm not talking some instrumental cover versions or b-lister knockoffs. I'm talking about the real deals. The Aerosmith tune, "What Kind Of Love Are You On" was previously featured on the soundtrack to Michael Bay's ARMAGEDDON, while Madonna's BUENOS AIRES comes from her film EVITA, and the G'N'R track, well, I still haven't been able to ID that one just yet. No doubt we've all seen our fair share of Hong Kong movies blatantly appropriating the instrumental scores of usual suspects like Jerry Goldsmith, James Horner and Alan Silvestri, or perhaps having a lesser-light HK star portray a nightclub singer warbling a cover version of a fondly recalled pop standard, but THIS takes things to a whole new level of balls!
But the music theft doesn't stop there, in addition to the usual lifted cues from instrumental scores, the freaking spicy killer of the title—a deranged former plastic surgeon turned serial killer who sets his sites on cokehead PR girl Daisy Woo—knifes his first on-screen victim to Bernard Herrmann's ACTUAL score from the shower scene in PSYCHO! Nice.
All in all, a pretty dumb movie, but made, as so many of these low-budget efforts are, with a sense of earnestness that overshadows gunfights that wouldn't look out of place on an episode of POLICE SQUAD! and other such nincompoopery.
Anyways, here's the swag. I couldn't get the first disc (as usual) to load in my laptop, so the back sleeve scan is a little larger as it has most of the main credits on it:
Miki Lee
Miki Lee
Waise Lee
Daisy Woo
William Ho
Eric Suen
????? (plays the Freaking Spicy Killer - not a spoiler)
Miki Lee, widescreen
????? (Cop)
????? (Cop)
????? (Cop) Same guy as above, but different angle for IDing
????? (one of William Ho's henchmen)
????? (one of William Ho's henchmen)
Miki Lee, Daisy Woo
?????, Waise Lee and ?????
(mainly posted this one because I just LOVE it whenever someone yells this line in a Hong Kong movie. One of the rare instances when I will shamelessly mimic an accent!
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CLOSING CREDITS
His name's even spelled this way on his CDs.