Love and Revenge... With a Meat Cleaver
Genres
Overview
The director's final work prior to his early death to chronic liver disease was this gleefully ghoulish horror comedy, which imparted the following straightforward moral: if you smother your wife to death with a bowl of porridge and bury her remains in a shallow grave, purely in order to start a new life with your mistress - then don't be too surprised if your wife returns and is more than a little angry about the situation! Like Shabl's two previous features, the film was released theatrically before also becoming a minor hit on home video.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
108 min
Release Date
1992-04-20
Status
Released
Original Language
Arabic
Vote Count
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Vote Average
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Esaad Younes
Fathiya
Farouq Al Fishawy
Fathi
Aaidah Riyadh
Ahmad Rateb
Lotfy Labib
Wedad Hamdy
Lobna Mahmoud
Noheir Amin
Samir Ghanem
Self
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