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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. […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Comedy/ Horror/ Category III/ Exploitation
Director: Dick Cho
Year: 1998
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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) […]
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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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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama/ Suspense/ Horror/ Category III
Director: Tsang Kan-Cheung
Year: 1997
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
One of the heartbreaking things for fans of movies from Hong Kong’s Golden Age (1985-1995) is that the owners of these films often neglected the negatives. The movies from that time had a very distinctive aesthetic in terms of art direction, […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Horror/ Drama
Director: Oxide Pang
Year: 2004
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Here’s the problem: with Ab-Normal Beauty, writer/director Oxide Pang creates a thoughtful, lovely examination of the artistic mind, but then he takes a big dump on his own work by tacking on horror/thriller elements which don’t add to the discussion he started. The shame […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama/ Action/ Horror/ Category III/ Exploitation
Director: Jeng Kin-Ping
Year: 1992
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Suburb Murder is pretty hard to take seriously. I was sorta willing to overlook the multiple gang rapes (surely one or two would have been enough), the gratuitous visits to massage parlours and so forth, but what really put it over […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Horror/Category III
Director: Danny Lee
Year: 1992
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
In terms of plot, Doctor Lamb could scarcely be simpler. Early on, Lam Goh-Yue (Simon Yam) is picked up by the cops on suspicion of murder and questioned by a team led by Inspector Lee (Danny Lee) until he relives the events he was […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Horror/ Category III
Director: Tun Fei Mou
Year: 1995
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
I don’t know why I thought that Black Sun: The Nanking Massacre might be entertaining. Of course I knew beforehand that the Japanese had massacred hundreds of thousands of Chinese and raped thousands of women after the fall of Nanking, so it wasn’t […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Horror/Suspense/Drama
Director: Chi-Leung Law
Year: 2004
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
A perverse wallow in Asian female psychology from screenwriter Susan Chan, I hesitate to recommend Koma because so much of it will fly right over the heads of the average Western viewer.
Take for example the scene where the delicate and delectable Ching (Angelica Lee) takes off […]