ARROW VIDEO SHAW SCOPE VOLUME 4 BOX SET: Demon of the Lute (1983)
The first film by Lung Yi-sheng, this is the tale of Yuan Fei, the Flying Monkey (Chin Siu-ho), who takes on the challenge of finding a weapon that can defeat the Demon Lute, a weapon made from dinosaur muscles. In his journey, he meets swordswoman Feng Ling, the Rainbow Sword (Kara Wai), the drunken Old […]
ARROW VIDEO SHAW SCOPE VOLUME 4 BOX SET: The Fake Ghost Catchers (1982)
Made two years before Ghostbusters, this early Lau Kar-Wing supernatural comedy (one of two he did for Shaw Brothers) has Bao Tuo (Hsiao Ho) and his cousin Zhou Peng (Cheung Chin-Pang) scamming people as fake ghostbusters. As you can imagine, they end up fighting real apparitions. A screwed up exorcism leads to the death of a […]
B & S About Movies podcast Episode 113: Mummies
I love mummy movies. Here are three: The All New Adventures of Laurel & Hardy in “For Love or Mummy”, Dawn of the Mummy and The Mummy Theme Park. So sit down, drink some water from the Nile, eats a few dates and let’s talk mummies. You can listen to the show on Spotify. The show is also […]
ARROW VIDEO SHAW SCOPE VOLUME 4 BOX SET: Bloody Parrot (1981)
The bloody parrot of this film’s title is a legend of a bird born on the devil king’s birthday, when all the lesser demons gave him their blood so that it might grant three wishes to whoever discovered it. Those wishes, however, tend to go poorly. One example is Guo Fan, a government worker who […]
ARROW VIDEO SHAW SCOPE VOLUME 4 BOX SET: Bat Without Wings (1980)
The Bat looks like Gene Simmons, and that’s precisely why I chose to watch this. He’s some kind of martial arts supervillain who assaults and murders women and then sends back their body parts one at a time to their husbands. He’s also so strong that he kills twenty-six martial artists before he gets stopped. […]
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