Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky
dir. Ngai Kai Lam
1991

(yes, that's right, I gave it HALF a star out of five!)

Remember these images?!

Craig Kilborn used these gory scenes as part of his "5 Questions" segment intro on the Daily Show back in the day before Jon Stewart replaced Kilby as host and made the show all funny and informative. He might've even used it on the Late Late Show too, but I prefer Conan so I only really watched it when there was a band or a comedian on that I liked, although I watch the Late Late Show a bit more now that Craig Ferguson is hosting cuz that guy is hilarious, but I'm getting sidetracked.

Anyway, after watching a gory video clip that was circulating around the internet under the false pretense that it was Bruce Lee clip, I discovered that the clip, as well as the 5 Questions clips, is from a Gore-Fu flick called Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky.

Riki-Oh is far and away one of the worst movies I've ever seen, and yet, for some reason, I couldn't stop watching it, even after I knew it was complete shit.

It's an 90 mins of blood, guts, mutilation and gore, gore, gore. Well actually, there's probably less than 5 minutes total of genuine gore. The rest of the film concerns a sappy revenge plot in a "franchised" prison. The drama is idiodic, the humor is retarded, the action is weak, and the gore is beyond cheesy. Even the music is crappy (check out this clip from the theme song). The film is all about shock, but most of the "shocking" stuff is downright laughable.

The climactic fist-fight between Riki-Oh and the warden-turned-rubbery-monster is so cheesy that it makes all the preceding plastic heads and limp dummies look realistic.

Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad.

I wish I'd read this detailed film summary at I-Mockery.com instead of wasting an hour and a half on this shit...

... oh alright, it's not THAT bad. If there's anything redeemable about the film, Riki-Oh is probably an ideal film to have on in the background at a party. No wait, I take that back. There's too much unnessecary muscle flexing, lame-ass flute playing, and mind-numbing filler dialog in the film to be interesting enough no matter how high your blood-acohol level gets. Maybe if just the gory parts were editted together with some other clips from other GORE-FU films, if such a genre really exists, it'd make the perfect party background video loop.