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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 […]
