Corpse Mania (Traditional Chinese: 屍妖 | Cantonese: Si1 Jiu1) is a category III/giallo film released in 1981.
In the film, the body of a prostitute is connected to a series of necrophilic murders within Foshan. A Guangzhou police is assigned onto the case and quickly finds a worthy suspect, though as the search for this suspect commences, he begins to doubt he is the murderer as more and more bodies pile up. The film was directed by Kuei Chih-Hung and stars Wang Yong, Tanny Tien-Ni, Yau Chui-Ling and Walter Tso Tat-Wah.
Victims[]
Prior to the Film[]
- At Least Two Unnamed Women - Either murdered by an unknown person or died from a natural cause. Mentioned.
- Total - 2
During the Film[]
- Jade - Murdered by Nam off screen. Body seen.
- Hongmei - Died from a lung disease. Body seen.
- Unnamed Police Officer - Gutted by Nam with a cleaver. Bled out.
- Whiskers - Stabbed in the chest and back multiple times by Nam with a cleaver. Bled out.
- Unnamed Drunkard - Waterboarded and throat slit by Nam with a cleaver.
- Unnamed Woman - Throat slit by Nam with a cleaver.
- Unnamed Police Officer - Impaled in the chest by a cleaver thrown by Nam and stabbed in the neck multiple times.
- Yee - Mutilated and thrown off of a building by Nam.
- Madame Lan - Decapitated by Nam with a cleaver.
- Li Zhengyuan - Hit in the head by Nam with a vase and garroted with a scarf by Lan. Shown in a flashback.
- Nam - Executed via firing squad under the orders of Zhang.
- Total - 10
Deaths[]
- Total - 13
- 7 Female
- 6 Male
Kill Counts[]
- Nam - 9 (Deceased)
- Chief Zhong - 1 (Alive)
- Madame Lan - 1 (Deceased)
Notes[]
- We get mentions of other bodies discovered prior to the film that were violated by Li. As revealed, Li had not killed these women and was a mere graverobber, with Nam and Madame Lan exacerbating the rumours in order to convince the police that the murders were the work of a serial killer. The original fates of the mentioned corpses are never revealed.