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What if your comic book violence started bleeding into real life—literally?
TMDB
30
Rotten Tomatoes
46
Audience Score
46

Split Second Murders (2009)

meta-horror chaosHong Kong indie energydark comedy sludge

Overview

Unemployed comic book artist Luk (6 Wing) is not having a good day. His girlfriend (Charmaine Fong) just left him, and he's off to pitch his latest work to a publisher that turns out be very sketchy. The editor (MC Jin) wants Luk to add more gratuitous violence and deaths to his story, which he does in amusing manner. After the meeting, Luk goes about his business as normal, but he finds that everywhere he goes he encounters strange conflicts that lead to gratuitous violence and deaths.

Flag of HKHKCantonese
Content warning
artistic compromiseviolence as entertainmentreality vs. fiction blurcreative desperation

Standout Aspects

Direction

Herman Yau's scrappy low-budget precision

Writing

Self-aware jabs at Hong Kong film industry

Best for:Streaming: Late-night weird cinema rabbit hole·Solo: When you want to feel seen as a struggling artist·Friends: Convince your film bro friends you found something obscure
Heads up:Violence: Cartoonish but frequent deaths played for laughs
Herman Yau

Director

Herman Yau

ReleasedOct 8, 2009
Runtime1h 30m
StatusReleased

Vibe

Pacefast
Intensityhigh
Tonedark
Feelmedium

Top Cast

Kay Tse

Kay Tse

Sister / Wong Yuen San

Billy Luk Wing-Kuen

Billy Luk Wing-Kuen

Luk

C Kwan

C Kwan

Dentist / Long

Stephanie Cheng

Stephanie Cheng

Sister / Long's wife

William Chan

William Chan

Coke

Pakho Chau

Pakho Chau

Chrissie Chau Sau-Na

Chrissie Chau Sau-Na

Schoolgirl / Fong Mei Fong

Charmaine Fong

Charmaine Fong

Julia

Bonnie Xian

Bonnie Xian

Louis Fan Siu-Wong

Louis Fan Siu-Wong

Maggie Shiu

Maggie Shiu

Sister Dragon

Terence Tsui

Terence Tsui

Bridegroom

Andy Hui Chi-On

Andy Hui Chi-On

San's husband

Vincy Chan

Vincy Chan

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Deep Dive

Trivia, insights & behind the scenes

Cultural

Herman Yau made this between bigger horror projects, using it to critique the very exploitation cinema that kept him employed.

Trivia

6 Wing was primarily known as half of the rap duo FAMA before this; MC Jin's casting as the demanding editor was an inside joke about industry pressure.

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