"Number of times a condom gets a close-up: 7"
- Alexander
Raped By An Angel (1993 )
AKA: Naked Killer II: Raped By An Angel
Director: Wong Jing, Andrew Lau Wai-Keung
Producer: Wong Jing
Cast: Simon Yam Tat-Wah, Mark Cheng Ho-Nam, Chingmy Yau Suk-Ching, Ng Suet Man
Running Time: 97 mins.
Plot: Chingmy Yau is a television commercial star who attracts stalker-like attention from Mark Cheng, who plays the role of perfect gentleman lawyer/serial rapist, with amazing conviction. Eventually one of Chingmy's friends is raped and killed by him, so she plots to seek revenge, with the help of her triad boyfriend (Simon Yam). In order to lure the sadistic rapist in, she sets an erotic striptease trap with her own body as bait.
Reviews
ALEXANDER'S REVIEW: The best thing I can possibly say about this film is that it is far from the worst I've ever seen. I rented it assuming it would be a supernatural thriller in the same vein as "Chinese Ghost Story" or "Bride With White Hair". Boy, was I wrong. Instead, "Raped by an Angel" is a rather tame domestic thriller about a deranged stalker and his twisted revenge fantasies.
The film stars Mark Cheng as a seriously chiseled, seriously vile lawyer who seems to like very rough sex. He wastes no time at all exhibiting his penchant for manhandling women as he enacts a rape fantasy with his girlfriend wearing nothing but a cheap hockey mask and Underoos in the film's first thirty seconds. I thought for sure I was in for another "Sexy and Dangerous" debacle, especially when the girlfriend utters the line, "Erik, you always feel excited when playing raping with me." Yikes. Fortunately, the movie gradually redeems itself. There's a surprising lack of violence here until the film's final twenty minutes or so and - oddly - there's a recurring safe-sex theme. Cheng is appropriately disgusting and Chingmy Yau is alluring, as always. The subtitles aren't too mangled and the acting is passable. Even the requisite courtroom and interrogation scenes are engaging and fairly believable.
"Raped by an Angel" by the numbers:
- Number of angels in the film: 0
- Number of chainsaw dismemberments: 1
- Number of clowns shot in the chest with a crossbow: 1
- Number of exposed breasts: 4 pairs
- Number of times Chingmy Yau exposes her breasts: 0
- Number of bare ass scenes (female): 2
- Number of bare ass scenes (male): 4
- Number of times a condom gets a close-up: 7
- Number of times a character wearing a scary clown costume contracts the AIDS virus by having unsafe sex with a decoy Chingmy Yau as revenge for raping Chingmy's roommate: 1
- Number of things better left unsaid: 2
