Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Breakneck
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Easy to follow
- Violence
- Graphic
- grotesque
- anarchic
- visceral
- cult movie night
- late night viewing
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Agent 999 investigates a village populated by crazed cannibals while the action is structured around kung fu combat.
The film’s comedy horror identity turns cannibalism and physical danger into outrageous, highly stylized entertainment.
The village’s inbred population forms a closed community organized around cannibalistic violence.
The Hong Kong action framework combines kung fu movement with grotesque cannibal imagery and exaggerated violence.
Films like We're Going to Eat You, and why
The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
martial arts action blended with grotesque comedy and horror spectacle
The Chinese Ghost Story
Hong Kong action filmmaking with anarchic humor and stylized physical violence
Braindead
cult comedy horror combining outrageous bodily peril with genre parody
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
transgressive cannibal horror with darkly comic excess
Movie Details
- Director
- Tsui Hark
- Release Date
- 1980-04-02
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Rating
- 6.4 / 10 (41)
Cast
- Norman Tsui Siu-Keung
- Melvin Wong King-Sun
- Eddy Ko Hung
- Michelle Yim
- Hon Kwok-Choi
- Fung Fung
- San Kuai
- Tai Bo
- Lee Chun-Wa
- To Siu-Ming
Common questions
- What is We're Going to Eat You about?
- A secret agent’s village investigation erupts into a delirious collision of kung fu combat, cannibal horror, and black comedy.
- What is We're Going to Eat You like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of We're Going to Eat You as breakneck, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as easy to follow.
- Is We're Going to Eat You violent?
- Yes. Ember rates the violence in We're Going to Eat You as graphic.
- Which films are like We're Going to Eat You?
- Films with a similar feel include The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, The Chinese Ghost Story, Braindead, and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
- How long is We're Going to Eat You?
- We're Going to Eat You runs 90 minutes.
