FANTASTIC FEST 2022: Demigod: The Legend Begins (2022)
PILI has been playing on TV in Taiwan since the 1984 and it looks wild to Western eyes, an example of Taiwanese art of bùdàixì glove puppetry. Unlike traditional puppetry, PILI uses computer-generated imagery during its action sequences. Also, in case you didn’t pick up on it from the movies on the site this week, […]
MIKE JUSTICE’S TOP 10 FAVORITE TRASHY 90’S THRILLERS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Mike Justice is the only illegitimate offspring born of a short-lived union between a frustrated English horror movie star and an American film festival groupie. His legacy, therefore, is to obsessively pursue a litany of ill-defined ambitions in the industry (editor, director, actor) while also falling hard and fast for anything with […]
Hex vs. Witchcraft (1980)
Released the same year as Hex, this sorta sequel is less frightening and more gambling. And sex. Lots of sex. Sex where characters break the fourth wall and speak directly to you while they’re having it. Chih-Hung Kuei directed this yet there are hardly any of the maggots and worms and murder and weirdness that you […]
Hex (1980)
Chan Sau Ying (Ni Tien) is going to die from tuberculosis and even then her husband Chun Yu (Wong Yung) can’t stop abusing her. Her new servant Leung Yi Wah (Chan Sze Ka) takes pity on her and they work together to drown Chun Yu in a pond, but then Sau Ying watches as her husband […]
Li Xiao Long zhuan qi (1976)
Bruce Lee’s death in 1973 didn’t cripple martial arts films. It could have. But the industry somehow took that loss and ended up making a ton of movies that cash in on the star’s death whether that means using clones of Lee or trying to tell his story. Bruce Lee: The Man, the Myth is […]
Shi er sheng xiao (1978)
Known as Dragon Zombies Return and Zodiac Fighters, this movie is the kind of movie I just let wash over me. Polly Shang Kuan Ling-Feng plays East Sea Dragon, a woman who has spent a year in a cave to study her fighting style and now is searching for the other, well, zodiac fighters like Rooster, […]
Di wu ying (1983)
Pearl Cheung Ling made Wolf Devil Woman which is a movie I could watch any time you want to watch it with me. This was the first movie that she directed. She also wrote and produced these films, which is a major thing for a martial arts film to be a female-owned production. A remake of […]
Sun Wu Kong dai zhan fei ren kuo (1982)
Monkey Wars is a sequel or at least connected to New Pilgrims to the West and has Monkey, Pigsy and Sandy coming up against some Taoists and their ally a spider-woman who has created a base within the caves. Director Chun-Liang Chen also made Child of Peach, Spell of Magic and Magic Warriors, so you know the kind of lunacy […]
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