History Film / EbolaSyndrome

* CoversALwaysLie: The poster above seems to imply the movie to be a zombie film in the vein of ''Film/{{Braindead}}'', what with a bloodied, zombified arm suddenly coming to life. It's NOT, while there is an outbreak of disease in the film, it's not a zombie virus.

* AmicableExes: Kai had an old flame, Lily, which he hadn't met since his university days, until the third act of the movie where he returns to Hong Kong from Johannesburg, finds her, and managed to convince her to let him bunk at her place for a while.

* DeathOfAChild: During the Ebola outbreak in Johannesburg, some victims of the disease are children. [[spoiler: Also when the police arrived to arrest Kai, who is bunking in Lily's home, Kai grabs Lily's daughter as a hostage and tries making a run for it, only to accidentally strangle the child. He then simply dumps the dead girl on the street like a bag of trash]].

* NeckSnap: The mobster in the opening scene, the restaurant owner and his wife, also [[spoiler: Lily's young daughter]] dies like this. With Kai is the killer in all these cases, although the last one is unintentional.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: [[spoiler: Lily, for doing Kai a favour and letting him bunk at her place for old time's sake is to have her place raided by the police and her daughter kidnapped before being [[AccidentalMurder accidentally murdered]] by Kai during a standoff gone wrong]].

* StayingWithFriends: Kai when he bunked into Lily's place in the third act of the film. She took him in, unfortunately, completely unaware that he was a mass murderer who killed at least five people by himself and is responsible for the viral outbreak that killed dozens in Johannesburg.

* DeathByCameo: The mobster who died a ridiculously over-the-top, excessively violent demise right in the first four minutes? That is veteran Hong Kong actor Shing Fui-on, best known for his villainous roles in ''Film/TheKiller'' and the first two ''Film/ABetterTomorrow'' movies.

Kai-san (Anthony Wong) is a serial killer who fled Hong Kong and made it to South Africa, where he ends up working in a Chinese restaurant in Johannesburg. When going on an errand in the rural Jo'berg countryside where an outbreak of Ebola virus had occurred, Kai ends up contracting the virus, where he decide to keep the virus spreading across Johannesburg for his own sadistic pleasure.

* AmicableExes: Kai had an old flame, Lily, which he haven't met since his university days, until the third act of the movie where he returns to Hong Kong from Johannesburg, finds her, and managed to convince her to let him bunk at her place for a while.

** The restaurant owner and his wife aren't portrayed in a positive light either. They are rude, condescending, only cares about money instead of their employees, is willing to purchase cheap meat from the Ebola-infected countryside just to overcharge their customers, and simply unlikeable thoughout their screentime. So [[AssholeVictim when both of them died brutally]] halfway through the film, ''NOBODY'' will mourn their loss.
* ILoveTheDead: A variation; but when Kai and the restaurant owner ventured to the diesease-stricken South African countryside to pick up some cheap meat, Kai comes across a tribal woman alone in the wilderness, about to die from an earlier Ebola outbreak. He then decides to have sex with the dying, defenseless woman just ForTheEvulz, resulting in him becoming a carrier and spreader of the virus.

* NeckSnap: The mobster in the opening scene, the restaurant owner and his wife, also [[spoiler: Lily's young daughter]] dies like this. With Kai being the killer in all these cases, although the last one is unintentional.

* ThePlague: The Ebola virus, which Kai contracted after entering the South African countryside where an outbreak has occured. Which he then spreads it throughout Johannesburg and Hong Kong.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: The mobster killed by Kai in the opening scene may have mere minutes of screen-time, but he's the reason why Kai had to flee Hong Kong to Africa in the first place, where Kai eventually ends up in Johannesburg where he would contract the Ebola virus and start a massive viral outbreak that kills dozens.
* StayingWithFriends: Kai when he bunked into Lily's place at the third act of the film. She took him in, unfortunately, completely unaware that he's a mass murderer who killed at least five people by himself and is responsible for the viral outbreak that killed dozens in Johannesburg.

** The mobster, Kai's ex-boss he kills in the first scene, gets stabbed, have his head shoved into the joints of a folding table, and then having the table collapsed twisting his neck in the process. And Kai ''made sure'' he's dead by [[DesecratingTheDead jumping up and down on the table]].

* TongueTrauma: The mobster's wife in the opening scene dies like this after Kai snips off her tongue (graphically, accompanied with a geyser of blood) using a pair of scissors.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: During one night, the lonely Kai is listening to his current boss, the restaurant owner, having sex with his wife, from the kitchen. He then grabs a chunk of pork from the fridge, digs a hole in it, and jerks off ''into'' the meat while listening to the couple making love... the meat which is supposed to be served for customers next morning, by the way.

* AdultFear: Invoked for Lily, the ex-girlfriend of Kai, who turns out to be a StrugglingSingleMother of a daughter. Yes, that old friend of yours, which you haven't met since graduation? He could be a mass murderer, ruthless killing machine, and carrier of a lethal disease, and he's ''hanging out right next to your little girl''.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: During one night, the lonely Kai is listening to his current boss, the restaurant owner, having sex with his wife, from the kitchen. He then grabs a chunk of pork from the fridge, digs a hole in it, and jerks off ''into'' the meat while listening to the couple making love... [[IAteWhat the meat which is supposed to be served for customers next morning, by the way]].

* InfantImmortality: Averted, during the Ebola outbreak in Johannesburg, some victims of the diesease are children. [[spoiler: Also when the police arrived to arrest Kai, who is bunking in Lily's home, Kai grabs Lily's daughter as a hostage and tries making a run for it, only to accidentally strangle the child. He then simply dumps the dead girl on the street like a bag of trash]].

* AdultFear: Invoked for Lily, the ex-girlfriend of Kei, who turns out to be a StrugglingSingleMother of a daughter. Yes, that old friend of yours, which you haven't met since graduation? He could be a mass murderer, ruthless killing machine, and carrier of a lethal disease, and he's ''hanging out right next to your little girl''.
* AmicableExes: Kei had an old flame, Lily, which he haven't met since his university days, until the third act of the movie where he returns to Hong Kong from Johannesburg, finds her, and managed to convince her to let him bunk at her place for a while.

** Kei was NOT meant to be likeable in any way, being a pervert, sex maniac, and ruthless killer who takes delight in abusing his victims, and have no qualms when it comes to [[WouldHurtAChild using children as a hostage]].

* ILoveTheDead: A variation; but when Kei and the restaurant owner ventured to the diesease-stricken South African countryside to pick up some cheap meat, Kei comes across a tribal woman alone in the wilderness, about to die from an earlier Ebola outbreak. He then decides to have sex with the dying, defenseless woman just ForTheEvulz, resulting in him becoming a carrier and spreader of the virus.
* InfantImmortality: Averted, during the Ebola outbreak in Johannesburg, some victims of the diesease are children. [[spoiler: Also when the police arrived to arrest Kei, who is bunking in Lily's home, Kei grabs Lily's daughter as a hostage and tries making a run for it, only to accidentally strangle the child. He then simply dumps the dead girl on the street like a bag of trash]].

* ManOnFire: [[spoiler: Kei suffers this fate after a propane tank blew up next to him, and is shot dead by the police while burning up]].
* NeckSnap: The mobster in the opening scene, the restaurant owner and his wife, also [[spoiler: Lily's young daughter]] dies like this. With Kei being the killer in all these cases, although the last one is unintentional.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: [[spoiler: Lily, for doing Kai a favour and letting him bunk at her place for old time's sake is to have her place raided by the police and her daughter kidnapped before being [[AccidentalMurder accidentally murdered]] by Kei during a standoff gone wrong]].

* RecycledPremise: Much of Kei's backstory has similarities to [[Film/TheUntoldStory Wong Chi-hang]], another despicable character portrayed by Anthony Wong; a murderer and sex maniac who fled Hong Kong, ends up working in a restaurant where he brutally kills its owners to take over the establishment, and serves tainted food to his customers while evading the authorities.

* StayingWithFriends: Kei when he bunked into Lily's place at the third act of the film. She took him in, unfortunately, completely unaware that he's a mass murderer who killed four people by himself, and is responsible for the viral outbreak that killed dozens in Johannesburg.

* NoGoodDeedsGoesUnpunished: [[spoiler: Lily, for doing Kai a favour and letting him bunk at her place for old time's sake is to have her place raided by the police and her daughter kidnapped before being [[AccidentalMurder accidentally murdered]] by Kei during a standoff gone wrong]].

Ebola Syndrome is a 1996 Hong Kong exploitation film directed by Herman Yau, starring Creator/AnthonyWong during that period in his career where Wong becomes popular in films portraying serial killers, rapists, and sleazy scumbags. Revisiting the earlier CAT-III film, ''Film/TheUntoldStory'' (also starring Wong), the movie's excessive gore and disturbing elements made it a cult film for enthusiasts of over-the-top, nauseating, CAT-III cinema.

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* AdultFear: Invoked for Lily, the ex-girlfriend of Kei, who turns out to be a StrugglingSingleParent of a daughter. Yes, that old friend of yours, which you haven't met since graduation? He could be a mass murderer, ruthless killing machine, and carrier of a lethal disease, and he's ''hanging out right next to your little girl''.

* {{Gorn}}: Loads and loads throughout the movie. For starters, the first scene in the restaurant where Kai is slicing up frogs while alive? Those are ''real'' frogs being cut up onscreen, although it's not Anthony Wong doing the cutting.