INTRUDER (Hong Kong, 1997)
Directed by: Tsang Kan-cheung
Starring: Wu Chien-lien, Wayne Lai, Moses Chan, Lam Suet

Never available on DVD, this is one of the lost movies made by Cannes Film Festival darling, Johnnie To (Drug War, Election) and his Milkyway Image production company. Twitchy and sweaty with 1997’s Handover fever, this paranoid, rain-slick thriller kicks off in the dark when a Hong Kong cab driver picks up a Mainland hooker played by screen diva, Wu Chien-lien. Then everything gets a whole lot darker. A criminal on the run, Wu has a new ID, but she needs one for her hubby who’s still on the lam. The cab driver lives alone in the middle of nowhere and he’s going to help her with her scheme, even if she has to saw off his limbs one by one. Anchored by a chilling performance by Wu, this is a dark, bleak, rarely-seen film that keeps topping itself in scene after marrow-curdling scene.