Horrible High Heels
1996 · Directed by Chan Wai-On, Chow Cheung, Mao Chiang-Pang
Original language: cn
- horror
The story
Someone has been skinning dead bodies and using their hide to make shoes. All of a sudden, a shoe factory whose business has been on the low side for some time improves tremendously.
What it’s like
Grimy factory interiors and a sour, uneasy mood carry this 1996 horror film, which plays a grisly premise about corpses turned into footwear for laughs as much as for dread. Expect the cramped, low-budget texture of its era, with the factory floor and the shoe trade as its main settings, and a tone that tilts toward the macabre and the absurd. The pacing suits a late-night watch with the lights low, where the gruesome idea can sink in slowly. Its intensity sits in the horror genre: the premise is gruesome, and the violence and body horror are central rather than incidental, so this is not gentle viewing. It suits viewers who enjoy Asian genre cinema of the 1990s, cult-leaning horror, and dark, ironic stories about commerce and exploitation, rather than anyone seeking calm or comfort.
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