Alicia I love this movie so much

Micitype Pretty Good

ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Leofwine_draca SUCCUBARE is one of those bizarre little black-magic themed Asian films that were all the rage in the early 1980s. It's stylised as a kung fu film and even features a role for kung fu star Carter Wong who shows up as a bodyguard. However, it's more like DEVIL WOMAN in terms of plot, with a number of witches holding sway over the locality and casting curses on the menfolk. There are some gruesome moments, typically involving the vomiting of worms and the like as in the various Shaw Brothers horror flicks, but the worst moments of the film are those involving real-life animal cruelty. One supporting character merely shows up to devour living creatures - mice, toads, etc. - and incredibly these moments seem to be played for laughs. There's also an ox execution reminiscent of APOCALYPSE NOW. It's rather unpalatable, and otherwise the film is too cheap and derivative to enjoy.

Darkling_Zeist Succubare (1982) is a profoundly odd Asian horror/Kung Fu hybrid that rabidly earns its status of being one of the most eccentric HK flicks available; due primarily to a plethora of grisly scenes featuring crazed epicurean, Cho King furiously munching on all manner of still-living animal tissues. Happily the frequent sight of, Carter Wong's familiar stoic visage lends a brief sense of normalcy to an otherwise confounding and stomach-churning affair. Even within the richly bizarre canon of Asian cinema Succubare sticks out like the proverbial cock in a nunnery. Which, of course, is precisely why you should see it. Enjoy!

haildevilman I rented this one based on nothing more than a blurb about Asian horror films.There was horror, kung-fu, action, and a bit of sex mixed in the wok to serve up this one. The stabbings were more graphic than a film of this nature usually drags out. The nudity was a bit OTT (and a tad unrealistic.) But the feminist undertones were a welcome addition.The mondo style scenes probably shook a few people up, but this is a mainstay of most Asian horror. And mondo fans would probably be disappointed. The disembowelment scene was a gross-out. The live worms helped.Chinese female vampires? Use you imagination guys. Or see the film.And fans of Johnny Carpenter's "Big Trouble In Little China" will spot big Carter Wong as a horseman.

barugon I was permanently scarred by this terrible film.The main action of the movie is nothing special. It seems there's a tribe of snake-worshipping people in a remote mountain region of Northern China, where women rather than men are the leaders and decision makers. I suppose among some men, this is enough to make "Succubare" a horror movie... Anyway, occasionally Chinese men would wander into the village, take a fancy to the local girls, seduce them and then abandon them. Unfortunately for the men, the women had put them under a spell, derived from snake venom, which would make them die horribly in 100 days -- their bellies swollen like a pregnant woman's with live worms and snakes -- if they did not return.Forget the cover of the US video. This has nothing to do with vampires, though there is one inept blood-drinking scene. The title itself is only marginally appropriate: "Succubare" is the Latin verb meaning "to lie beneath", and it's the root of the word Succubus, a female demon who would seduce men in their sleep. Actually, it's the MEN who are the seducers here.But it's not the main action of this ludicrous film that's so objectionable. It's the little side-incidents. I'll overlook the slaughter and butchery of an ox that's performed on-screen. The participants seem very experienced, as though this is an unpleasant duty they actually do in real life; and I'm sure they really ate the animal afterwards... though I resent having the act thrust in my face as "entertainment".What I WISH I could overlook (or HAD overlooked) are the numerous, totally extraneous shots of an unidentified man, who from time to time interrupts the story by eating living animals. He starts the movie by tearing apart a live snake with his teeth. In the course of the movie, he devours a bug, a lizard, a toad (I had to leave the room after this), and a whole mouse (I stopped watching at this point, and lost my appetite for days). Let me stress that this was totally unexpected, and had nothing to do with the movie... unless it's a cynical reference to love as it's portrayed in the film: a blind, selfish, predatory survival mechanism that tears apart the helpless... but then again, I'm probably just rationalizing to get the vileness out of my head...