Movie

There Is a Secret in My Soup

2001 · 84 min

A grim, unrelenting descent into real-life cruelty that leaves you shaken and sickened.

Tagline: Based on a true story. Hong Kong's most disturbing film ever.
Overview: "There Is A Secret in My Soup" is based on infamous HK crime case called 'Hello Kitty Murder'.In 1999 three triad gangsters kidnapped,brutally tortured and beat a 23-year old woman named Fan Man-yee for one month until she died.Then they dismembered and cooked the body,threw most of it out with the trash,fed legs and arms to stray dogs and hid the skull inside the head of a giant-sized Hello Kitty doll.
How it feels: Bleak, dark, tense and eerie. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Violence, crime, death, trauma
Content: Strong violence, gore and language. Mild sexual content.
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Tone: bleakstrength 3 of 3
darkstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: violence
crime
death
trauma
madness
Places: big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: true story
Content intensity: Gore strong
Language strong
Violence strong
Sex mild