One of the biggest Asian cinema events of 2008, “Painted Skin” is the latest film to draw inspiration from Pu Songling’s classic of Chinese literature “Strange Tales of Liaozhai”. Although the legendary King Hu actually directed a film back in 1993 with the same name and based upon the same...

Gordon Chan’s “Painted Skin” is based on a story in the book “Strange Tales of Liaozhai” by writer Pu Songling, and has been adapted for the big screen twice before – once in 1966 and again in 1993 by the legendary Hong Kong director King Hu. Chan’s movie is what you would call a genre-buster,...

Donnie Yen’s horror/action/historical epic “Painted Skin” has the potential to be really, really awful, or just this side of okay. I had high hopes for the movie when it was just revving up production, but everything I’ve seen of it since has been a tad … confusing. This,...

Yay! Another behind-the-scenes look at an upcoming movie! (Gee, I sure hope I don’t come across as “bitching” with this one…) Anyhoo. Although everything I had heard about Donnie Yen’s “Painted Skin” was painting it (ahem) as a horror movie, everything I’m...

The more I see of Donnie Yen’s latest “Painted Skin”, the more it’s looking more like those ’80s Category III Hong Kong movies — a lot of skin, bad simulated sex, and loads of pseudo horror that relies more on gore to shock than anything actually, you know, scary....

Over at their Asian movie blog, Variety has two new images from the Donnie Yen period/martial arts/horror/drama “Painted Skin”, a $10 million dollar movie that has seen three (!) directors, two action choreographers, and other changes in the cast, including the coming, and then going, of...

In the Asian horror movie “Painted Skin”, Donnie Yen has to fight off a vampire-like woman who eats the skins and hearts of her lovers. Ouch. The last time we heard anything about the film, director Wilson Yip had been replaced on the $15 million dollar picture by Gordon Chan, but other than...

Painted Skin (2008) Movie Images Gallery Plot: Chinese action/horror/thriller/romance movie centered on a vampire-like woman (Xun Zhou) who eats the skins and hearts of her lovers in order to maintain her youthful appearance. Things become complicated when the demon falls in love with a human man (Kun...

Donnie Yen’s big-budget supernatural thriller “Painted Skin” just got itself a new director — Gordon Chan, reports Variety. This is very good news. Replacing Wilson Yip with Chan (”2000 A.D.”, “A-1″) is like replacing McG with Steven Spielberg, talent-wise,...

Coming off the heels of the police actioner “Flash Point”, Donnie Yen will be stepping into another action movie — with a supernatural twist. Yen’s latest, “Painted Skin”, is being described as “a rare Chinese supernatural actioner”, which means it will...