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An aquired taste, but these movies are a lot of fun. Top 5: Boxers Omen- a very buddhist kind of horror where a boxer makes a deal with a buddhist priest for success in the ring as long as he stays...
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Encounters Of The Spooky Kind: Sammo Kung takes on vampires, zombies, wizards and his bitchy wife in a kung fu horror extravaganza. See it now! "I would also recommend the 1960 Chinese film THE...
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Other e-ticket rides, HK-style: SKIN STRIPPERESS (sic) -- Billy Lau, bumbling apprentice of the MR. VAMPIRE films, reunites with one-eyebrow priest extraordinaire Lam Ching-ying in a twisted and...
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Shaw Brothers did a few horrors including Black Magic, Boxer's Omen, Oily Maniac, The Killer Snakes and last but not least, The Mighty Peking Man
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I did a little digging in regards to the Boxer's Omen DVD release. It is being released by Celestial as VCD only. The good news is that Image will be releasing Boxer's Omen and Black Magic later this...
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Saw The Killer Snakes. That one will make you squirm. Joe "Renfield" Meadows HORROR-WOOD Webzine http://www.horror-wood.com
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I would like to mention that most of these films if not all our hong kong cinema not chinese though China regained control but i like to give homeage to Hong kong cinema sammo hung Jackie chan etc all...
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"I would like to mention that most of these films if not all our hong kong cinema not chinese though China regained control but i like to give homeage to Hong kong cinema sammo hung Jackie chan etc...
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my friend i would like to ask you does your name stem for mthe film killer meteors? i always thought it when i saw your name? thats the Jackie chan film isnt it? my name comes from my maybe favourite...
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Yep, my name is from the Jackie Chan film. Run Run Shaw is still in HK. He's been in hospital recently but since then has been photographed attending the Miss HK pagent. Shaw was originally from the...
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Excellent stuff yep i thought your name must come for mthe film. I cant imagone a hong kong film not speaking Cantonese but if its a traditional its more probable. are you interested in the modern day...
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A Better Tomorrow is fantastic. I haven't kept up with the post-97 HK scene very much but I can reccomend Beast Cops and Purple Storm.
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To the best of my knowledge all the movies produced in HK by Shaw Brothers are in Mandarin, not in Cantonese. The Celestial DVDs don't include any Cantonese soundtrack, did you noticed ? and all the...
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Hey Todmichel! Actually, SOME of the Shaw Brothers dvds produced by Celestial/IVL do contain Cantonese soundtracks. In fact, in most cases, if a Cantonese track is included, it generally means the...
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After verification, you are right, Bryan - but these Cantonese productions were rather a minority in the Shaw Brothers "corpus"...
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Shaws stayed with Mandarin even when others didn't. The films of Chang Cheh are Mandarin. All of Lau Kar-leung's films from Dirty Ho onwards are Cantonese - even the Mainland set Martial Arts Of...
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the Bride with white hair is one of my favourite chinese horrors as is Mr Vampire. Doctor Fu Manchu
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I saw this film in 7th grade and could not for the life of me come up with the name. I knew it had Shaolin in the title, but there are a million Shaolin films. I finally found it again under the title...
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The HK VCD of INFRAMAN is in Cantonese and Mandarin, but the US DVD is in Mandarin and English. I noticed that the characters' names in the English and Cantonese versions are the same, but the...
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I don't consider the Shaw Brothers movies to really be in any language. Given that they were shot silent per the cost and HK's noisy urban environment and almost none of the actors dubbed themselves,...
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hermanthegerm wrote:I saw this film in 7th grade and could not for the life of me come up with the name. I knew it had Shaolin in the title, but there are a million Shaolin films. I finally found it...
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