Anthony Wong stars as Kai, a restaurant employee, who in the beginning of the movie have sex with his boss wife and gets caught by the boss and therefore "have to" murder him. After killing off his boss he flees to South Africa and starts to work in a restaurant and gets another boss that he learns to hate. One day out in the bush with his boss buying meat to the restaurant, Kai sees a Zulu-girl and rapes her. Too bad because the Zulu-girl was infected with the ebola virus and so is Kai after what he did. So he gets sick and just lays around in the restaurant getting worse and worse, and hears that the boss wife wants him killed since she's afraid that she might get infected with what he's carrying (they don't know it's the ebola virus though).
But instead Kai kills off his new boss and also his wife, chops them up and makes hamburgers of their meat which he sells in the restaurant and by doing so spreading the ebola virus.
This movie is one of my favourite movies, first time I saw it I couldn't believe that someone had made a movie as cool as this, and since then I've watched it a number of times and it's just so entertaining, humorous and most of all, different from a lot of other stuff out there.
Anthony Wong is great as the somewhat demented Kai and delivers a fantastic performance that is so good to watch. It's not for everyone and I guess there are a lot of people who would hate Ebola Syndrome or think that it's too much, it's all a matter of taste though, according to me it's abrilliant film.
 
As you probably understand from the story, this movie contains a lot of gore and other sickening things. Thing though is that even if it's somewhat explicit at times, it's done with a lot of humour which makes it somewhat less horrible.
The movie also contains all these little things that makes it so great. It's funny and it's a really cool to see what the psychopatic Kai's gonna do next. If you have a weak stomach then it might not be for you, or if you have really serious (that means dry and boring) humour for that matter then it's probably better to watch something else.
This movie is pure gold, a true HK cult classic, and Ebola Syndrome is a must have.
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ALTERNATIVE TITLE: yibola bing du
MOVIE YEAR: 1996
DIRECTOR: Herman Yau
WRITING CREDITS: Ting Chau
GENRE: Horror
CAST: Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, Miu-Ying Chan, Meng Lo
COUNTRY: Hong Kong
RUNTIME: 98 min
RATING: 10/10
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