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Women on the Run (1993) Movie Review
“Women on the Run” is one of the better known category III exploitation films, and is one with a pedigree of sorts, having been directed by the team of Hong Kong action master Corey...
Read More »The Imp (1981) Movie Review
Director Dennis Yu’s “The Imp” is a Hong Kong horror film from the early 1980s, which comes with the heady boast of being one of the all-time genre greats from its native country. Whilst...
Read More »Seoul Raiders (2005) Movie Review
Jingle Ma’s “Seoul Raiders”, the sequel to his semi-hit “Tokyo Raiders”, is not so completely without merit that it finds itself tagged as a movie in search of a purpose. To be sure, it’s...
Read More »Night Corridor (2003) Movie Review
“Night Corridor” is a film which takes itself very seriously, striving for significance and desperately trying its best to convince the viewer of its intelligence and cunning. Unfortunately, although writer/director Julian Lee has created...
Read More »Ebola Syndrome (1996) Movie Review
Even within the most dependable bastion of bad taste known as the category III genre of Hong Kong cinema, there are a few films which stand out as having a reputation for being truly...
Read More »Leave me Alone (2004) Movie Review
“Leave me Alone” is Danny Pang’s companion piece to brother Oxide’s “Ab-normal Beauty”, the two films linked by a tragic car accident which has far reaching effects on the lives of all those involved....
Read More »Distinctive (2002) Movie Review
In times like these, when Western cinema screens are plagued with vapid, money grabbing remakes of vastly superior Asian films, it is vaguely comforting to find the likes of “Distinctive”, which provides positive proof...
Read More »Kung Fu Hustle (2005) Movie Review
There hasn’t been a more highly anticipated film in recent years than “Kung Fu Hustle”, the latest action/comedy offering from Hong Kong’s Stephen Chow (“Shaolin Soccer”). Upon release, the movie broke box office records,...
Read More »Ab-normal Beauty (2004) Movie Review
Ever since the global success of “The Eye”, the Pang brothers have become an increasingly hot property, and despite having only a few films under their collective belts, are now two of the most...
Read More »We’re Going to Eat You (1980) Movie Review
Tsui Hark is one of the all time greats of Hong Kong martial arts cinema, having been responsible for undisputed genre classics such as “Zu Warriors” and “Peking Opera Blues”. Unfortunately, his output in...
Read More »Last Ghost Standing (1999) Movie Review
Horror comedies have always been popular in Hong Kong cinema, and the sub genre has produced a number of classic films such as Sammo Hung’s “Close Encounters of the Spooky Kind” and the enduring...
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Deadly Camp (1999) Movie Review
Along with the likes of “Bloody Beach” and “The Record”, “The Deadly Camp” is another Eastern take on that most venerable of cinematic forms, the U.S. slasher film, and is further proof that the...
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Devil Touch (2002) Movie Review
Director Billy Tang is best known for category III classics such as “Red to Kill” and “Dr. Lamb”, and since the majority of his less graphic films have been disappointingly pedestrian, it is with...
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Dr. Lamb (1992) Movie Review
“Dr. Lamb” is a classic of the category III genre, and one of its most influential, trailblazing films, which helped establish the template that so many of the subsequent rip offs would slavishly adhere...
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A-1 (2004) Movie Review
“A-1″ proves my theory that any movie with Anthony Wong in a prominent role can’t possibly be bad. More old fashion mystery than thriller, “A-1″ stars Angelica Lee (the driving engine of “The Eye”)...
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The Big Brawl (aka Battle Creek Brawl, 1980) Movie Review
“Rumble in the Bronx” wasn’t Jackie Chan’s first attempt to break into the western market. Fifteen years earlier, Hollywood’s search for the next Bruce Lee brought Chan to American screens via “Battle Creek Brawl”,...
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Daughter of Darkness (1993) Movie Review
Even in the rancid depths of category III cinema, there is bad taste, and then there is bad taste. Ivan Lei, director of such redoubtable classics as “Ancient Chinese Whorehouse” and “The Peeping Tom”,...
Read More »Chinese Torture Chamber 2 (1998) Movie Review
Wong Jing’s original “Chinese Torture Chamber Story” was an undisputed classic of the Category III genre, and one of the few which enjoyed any kind of mainstream success or recognition. Given this, and the...
Read More »Yesterday Once More (2004) Movie Review
While watching Johnnie To’s “Yesterday Once More”, I kept waiting for someone to pull a gun. And why not? To has, in recent years, almost single-handedly kept Hong Kong in the action movie game....
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Three: Extremes (2004) Movie Review
The release of the Asian horror anthology “Three…Extremes” on DVD comes as a bit of a dilemma to international moviegoers who had already seen one of the three stories, Fruit Chan’s “Dumplings”, when it...
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