A 1992 Hong Kong crime/horror film directed by Danny Lee and Bill Tang that follows a serial killer (Simon Yam) and the race to stop him. The killer, nicknamed "Doctor" due to his penchant for dissecting his victims using impromptu medical equipment, moonlights as a taxi driver working the night shift in order to abduct and kill prostitutes before using their bodies to satisfy his necrophiliac urges.
The movie also stars Lee, Kent Cheng, Lau Siu Ming, Parkman Wong, Emily Kwan, Perrie Lai, Chung Bik Wing, and Wong Wing Fong.
It was released on October 22, 1992.
Tropes for the film:
- Breast Attack: The victims subjected to this trope are dead. The titular doctor (a necrophiliac Serial Killer obsessed with the bodies of women) abducts drunk prostitutes, strangles them, smuggles their bodies back to his apartment to have sex with them, and (once he's done) slices off their breasts as Creepy Souvenirs before dumping their corpses into a nearby waterfront.
- Covers Always Lie: Most posters have the titular character, wearing a hospital garb, something he never wears throughout the entire film. There's also the Hong Kong poster (which made it to a few DVD covers) featuring Dr. Lamb threatening a bunch of nude women with a chainsaw. In the film itself, Dr. Lamb operates by murdering the women first via strangulation, before sneaking their carcasses — then fully-clothed — into his apartment, and then stripping them to have the time of his life with their corpses. There are naked women in the film, but none of them are alive by the time they're stripped, contrary to what the poster implies.
- Creepy Souvenir: Lam frequently targets drunk hookers, kidnaps and kills them, and then disposes of their corpses, but not before severing their breasts to be kept in jars of liquid formaldehyde as his personal collection. During the scene in which he confesses to his crimes in a police interrogation room, the desk he's seated at displays the eight jars, each containing a severed breast, from his four victims.
- Dismembering the Body: The film revolves around its titular Serial Killer necrophile-paedophile masquerading as a cab driver, who murdered four women, all of them drunk hookers, when they boarded his vehicle over the course of several weeks. Smuggling their bodies into his apartment to pleasure himself with their carcasses, Lamb would have them disposed off after they reached rigor mortis by dismemberment and disposal in multiple duct-taped cardboard boxes. While severing their breasts which he then keeps in jars of liquid formaldehyde as his Creepy Souvenir collection, at the end of the movie which he has eight bottles off his four victims.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Lam's first onscreen kill is a drunk prostitute who boards his cab at night and starts smoking in it (despite his requests) before throwing up in the backseat, at which point he suddenly detours into a dark alleyway and sexually assaults her before choking her to death, and then sneaks her body back home (via the boot) to... have some fun with her. He repeats this feat with his second kill, another drunk prostitute who tells him, "Start driving already, you idiot!"... and thus decides to murder her and use her body as a sex toy.
- Exploitation Film: The titular Villain Protagonist is a necrophiliac Serial Killer masquerading as a taxi driver who murders drunk hookers during his night shift, sneaks their bodies into his apartment, and enjoys himself with their carcasses the following morning, with the title referring to his penchant for dissecting and dismembering his victims with impromptu medical/surgical equipment, and his victims being likened as "lambs to slaughter". It's as tasteless as it sounds.
- I Love the Dead: Lam abducts and murders drunk hookers who get into his taxi, takes their bodies home the next morning, and has the time of his life with them before dismembering their bodies after they've reached rigor mortis... but not before cutting off their breasts to be kept in jars of formaldehyde as a Creepy Souvenir for each of his kills.
- Magical Security Cam: Lam films himself doing... things to the corpse of a 17-year-old teenager which he has recently strangled and smuggled into his apartment. The police recover his homemade snuff film later on, and the footage shown is the exact same as the one seen by audiences.
- Punk in the Trunk: A really, really messed up example; Lam murders drunk prostitutes who get into his cab by strangulation, and then packs their corpse in his trunk so that he can sneak them back into his apartment... to have the time of his life with their carcasses the following morning.
- They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: Lam Go-yu is a meek, ordinary taxi driver who works the night shift, and secretly a necrophile who murders four women during the film, the youngest being a 17-year-old teenager. He sneaks his victims' bodies into his rented apartment the following morning to pleasure himself with their corpses before dismembering them with impromptu medical equipment, besides having a collection of severed breasts pickled in liquid formaldehyde sliced off from his victims as Creepy Souvenirs of his kills.
