From Shaw to Snakes: The Venom and Violence of Early Chinese Language Horror Cinema

April. 11,2023 | 1h 16m | en

Godfrey Ho Hsiang Yun-Peng Kam Kwok-Leung

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A look back at the largely undocumented period of early Chinese-language horror cinema, beginning in Hong Kong and the Shaw Brothers and graduating to Taiwan and the production of Calamity of Snakes in 1983.

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InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

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Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

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