YMMV / The Mask of Fu Manchu

• Best Known for the Fanservice: Besides the racism, the film also received lots of controversy for the fact that Fah Lo See is clearly getting off on seeing Terry being whipped. The shot is removed in the 1992 VHS release.
• Complete Monster:
  • The wicked Doctor Fu Manchu intends to rule the world upon stealing the blade and mask of Genghis Khan. Taking the Egyptologist Lionel Barton, Fu Manchu tortures him with ringing bells to gain information, eventually causing his death. Capturing Lionel's daughter, and her fiancé Trevor, Genghis Khan has Trevor savagely tortured by his sadistic daughter Fah Lo See and intends to have him become Fah Lo See's broken slave. Intending on sacrificing the beautiful Sheila, Fu Manchu intends on using his doomsday weapons to rally his warlords and slaughter the Western World, with their women given to his lieutenants.
  • Fah Lo See, Fu Manchu's equally twisted daughter, is a torture enthusiast who delights in being the enforcer of her father. Upon capturing her victims, Fah Lo See has them brutally tortured and whipped, being implied to force herself upon them after in what her father describes as her "customary" procedure. Upon subjecting Terry to this and stopped before she can complete her plans, Fah Lo See plans to subject him to a potion to break his mind and keep him as a plaything until she grows bored of and "discards" him.
• Ham and Cheese: Myrna Loy claimed in her book that this was her and Boris Karloff's attitude towards such a pulpy story.
• Ho Yay: Fu Manchu keeps a lot of shirtless bodyguards hanging around his lair. And while Fah Lo See has Terry stripped, it's Fu Manchu who takes it a step further and puts him in a loincloth.
• Hollywood Homely: Fu Manchu refers to his daughter as "ugly". She's played by screen beauty Myrna Loy.
• Narm: Terry's Evil Laugh after he hands Sheila and Van Berk over to Fu Manchu's goons, along with Sheila's Big "NO!".
• Values Dissonance: Yellow Peril racism all over the shop. Fu Manchu wants to conquer all the white people and lead the east against everyone else. There are also some racist caricatures, particularly at the end.