Mar
29
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Category III/ Ghost/ Comedy
Director: Lam Nai-Choi
Year: 1990
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Erotic Ghost Story takes the plot of Witches of Eastwick and transposes it to ancient China.
Fa-Fa (Amy Yip), Pai So-So (Man Siu), and Fei-Fei (Kudo Hitomi) are three sister fox spirits who, if they can manage to concentrate on their spiritual studies […]
Mar
27
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Bullet Ballet/ Category III/ Martial Arts
Director: Dennis Law
Year: 2008
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Coming from director Dennis Law, the director of Bad Blood, Fatal Move has to count as a major disappointment.
The problems begin with the script, also by Dennis Law. When triad kingpin Lung (Sammo Hung) wants to take a step back […]
Jan
24
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Suspense/ Horror/ Category III
Director: Billy Tang
Year: 1993
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
In Hollywood cinema, we have a tradition of immigrant gangsters who make the American version look like pansies. Most recently, they’ve come from the Eastern bloc countries, such as the former Soviet Union. Before that, Jamaicans were briefly the badasses […]
Nov
5
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Category III/ Exploitation/ Comedy
Director: Hon Wai-Daat
Year: 1993
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Usually, when a movie is a complete piece of crap, you can assign blame in a way that makes sense, but I’ll admit that Can’t Stop My Crazy Love For You completely bamboozles me.
Here is a film with the thematic and visual […]
Oct
24
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Suspense/ Comedy/ Romance/ Exploitation/ Category III
Director: Andrew Lau
Year: 1993
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Let’s get one thing straight at the outset: there is nothing remotely erotic about Raped By An Angel, despite the attractive actresses and actors involved. If the rape scenes were intended to be hot, that’s pretty revealing of the […]
Sep
18
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Category III/ Drama
Director: Sherman Wong
Year: 1991
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I wish I could say that Queen of the Underworld was a great movie, but really it’s a bit of a lost opportunity.
It’s the story of how Helena (Amy Yip) goes from being a waitress to the most powerful madam in Hong Kong. […]
Jun
29
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Category III/ Drama/ Bullet Ballet/ Horror/ Exploitation/ Martial Arts/ Suspense
Director: Johnny Lee
Year: 1993
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
In A Day Without Policemen, screenwriters Laai Gwong-Fai, Goo Bing-Git, Desmond Wu, and Johnny Lee come up with many intriguing ideas. They pit the natural instinct for self-preservation against the desire to protect women and family. […]
Jun
11
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Exploitation/ Category III/ Martial Arts
Director: Johnny Wang
Year: 1992
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
From the title, you would expect Escape from Brothel to be the tale of sex slaves who find a way to break out of a house of prostitution, with their low level gangster guards in hot pursuit, but that’s not […]
May
24
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Comedy/ Horror/ Category III/ Exploitation
Director: Dick Cho
Year: 1998
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
A Chinese Torture Chamber Story II may not be the nonstop exercise in hilarity that the first installment in the series was, but it tells a wonderfully perverse tale in it’s own right.
As our story begins, Lotus Wong (Yolinda Yan) […]
May
16
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Comedy/ Horror/ Category III/ Exploitation
Director: Bosco Lam
Year: 1994
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
Not long ago, I reviewed Mark Of The Devil in these pages. Like A Chinese Torture Chamber Story, Mark Of The Devil concerns people who have been brought up on false charges and tortured. Both films feature a fair amount of […]
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