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Bat Without Wings
Movie
1980 • Hong Kong • Directed by Chor Yuen
Acclaimed director Chor Yuen was credited for bringing mystery thriller ingredients into his atmospheric martial arts epics, and this is one of the most impressive examples. The title refers to the feared nickname of a notorious rapist-murderer who swoops...
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Bloody Parrot
Movie
1981 • Hong Kong • Directed by Hua Shan
Let’s get one thing straight right away: there is no blood-splattered bird in this fast-paced kung-fu film. Instead, there’s a swashbuckling mercenary of that nickname, who seems to be helping the Chief of the Imperial Vault recover the Emperor’s stolen ri...
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The Fake Ghost-Catchers
Movie + 1 extra
1982 • Hong Kong • Directed by Lau Kar-Wing
This delightful action comedy came out a full two years before Ghostbusters premiered. Coincidence? You be the judge. Whatever the inspiration, nothing can compare to this showcase for international favorite Alexander Fu Sheng’s brother, Chang Chan-pen...
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Seeding of a Ghost
Movie + 1 extra
1983 • Hong Kong • Directed by Richard Yeung Keun
Originally planned to be part three of the Shaw Brothers’ Black Magic trilogy, due to its over-the-top blood-splattering nature and gross-out shock levels, Seeding Of A Ghost ran into censorship problems and was released under a new moniker. It’s...
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Oily Maniac
Movie
1976 • Hong Kong • Directed by Ho Meng-Hua
Famous director Ho Meng-hua, who gave Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung breaks in his early kung-fu films, broke new ground with his horror hit Oily Maniac. Based on a true story about a creature that kills people at night and covers them in oil, it stars youn...
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Black Magic
Movie + 1 extra
1975 • Hong Kong • Directed by Ho Meng-Hua
Martial arts hero Ti Lung gets to flex his dramatic muscle in this horror movie about evil magic spells. In a departure from his normal roles, Ti plays Hsu Lo who runs up against an evil black magic practitioner San Kan-mi (Ku Feng). San Kan-mi wants to...
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Black Magic Part 2
Movie + 1 extra
1976 • Hong Kong • Directed by Ho Meng-Hua
Young doctor Lin Wei-tu found that many of his patients were suffering from strange symptoms caused by black magic of the wicked Lo Lieh. However, Lin’s friend Ti Lung refused to admit the existence of any black magic, and his wife Tanny Tien Ni offered...
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Hex
Movie + 1 extra
1980 • Hong Kong • Directed by Kuei Chih-Hung
After making successful thrillers, well-received action films and popular comedies, director Kuei Chih-hung put his first “hex” on the audience. This eerie, frightening, supernatural mystery thriller was so effective it led to Hex Versus Witchcraft a...
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Hex Vs. Witchcraft
Movie + 1 extra
1980 • Hong Kong • Directed by Kuei Chih-Hung
Here director Kuei Chih-hung gets to combine his love of hilarious comedies with bone-chilling horror in a tale of a marriage made in hell! A compulsive gambler’s botched suicide attempt, results in his wedding to a ghost who haunts him in weird, won...
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Hex After Hex
Movie + 1 extra
1982 • Hong Kong • Directed by Kuei Chih-Hung
Hell may have no fury like a woman scorned, but hell, literally, has no wrath like a lusting ghost scorned! A handsome chauffeur (played by muscular “Venom” Lo Meng) discovers just that after he turns her down. The demon merely arranges to have his t...
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Bewitched
Movie + 1 extra
1981 • Hong Kong • Directed by Kuei Chih-Hung
In America, it’s the title of a beloved supernatural sitcom. But in Hong Kong, it’s the name of a stunning horror film from the director who also helmed the equally riveting Hex. This time, however, the stakes are even higher and the gruesome goings-...
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The House with Laughing Windows
Movie
1976 • Italy • Directed by Pupi Avati
While typically famed for its lurid Technicolor hues and grand guignol murders, the Italian giallo thriller had a less bombastic side as well. Erring less towards exploitation than to art, these lesser-seen gems offer some of the greatest rewards for adventu...
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Wild Style
Movie
1982 • United States • Directed by Charlie Ahearn
HERE'S A LITTLE STORY THAT MUST BE TOLD...
In early 1980s New York City, independent filmmaker Charlie Ahearn and downtown artist Fred Brathwaite ventured uptown with the aim of capturing an exciting new underground scene that was happening in t...
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Infinite Santa 8000
Movie
2013 • United States • Directed by Michael Neel
It is the year 8000. Not much remains, except for mutants, scum, and robo-people. Humanity has been wiped out and everyone must kill to survive... even Santa! When his beloved Martha is kidnapped, Santa and his robotic reindeer head out into the po...
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Kier-La Janisse Selects
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Kier-La Janisse is a film writer, producer, acquisitions executive for Severin Films, creative director of Spectacular Optical Media, founder of the Miskatonic institute of Horror Studies and Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. She is...
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Everything Is Terrible! - The Great Satan
Movie
2018 • United States • Directed by Dimitri Simakis and Lehr Beidelschies
Over the last 10 years, EIT! has reinterpreted our shared memory into 3,000+ daily web videos, collected 15,000 Jerry Maguire VHS tapes, and forever altered the collective consciousness. Now, with their longtime collaborato...
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Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Movie + 1 extra
1983 • Hong Kong • Directed by Alex Cheung Kwok-Ming
A Hong Kong science fiction film? Despite the worldwide success of Star Wars and Star Trek, science fiction is one genre which has seemingly passed the world of Hong Kong cinema by. Well, not entirely! Twinkle Twinkle Little Star is an extreme...
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Battle Wizard
Movie + 1 extra
1977 • Hong Kong • Directed by Pao Hsueh-Li
Pao Hsueh-li, the trusted co-director for several of Chang Cheh’s most memorable productions (including The Water Margin), here creates one of his own. A brother who loves books and a sister who loves swords must face a yellow-robed warrior, the Red Py...
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Demon of the Lute
Movie + 1 extra
1983 • Hong Kong • Directed by Tang Tak-Cheung
The “Scenario and Directed By” credit is rare, but Lung Yi-sheng warranted it for two memorable Shaw movies starring the lovely and lethal Kara Hui. This is the first – a beautiful fight fantasy of lute demons, magical arrows, bottomless abysses, an...
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Portrait in Crystal
Movie + 1 extra
1983 • Hong Kong • Directed by Hua Shan
The master of the modern day crime thriller lends his directing skills to this amazing kung-fu crime fantasy. Hua Shan impressed audiences with such films as The Criminals trilogy, then dazzled them in an entirely different way by helming the superheroic S...
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Super Inframan
Movie + 2 extras
1975 • Hong Kong • Directed by Hua Shan
It’s pint-sized Godzillas fighting a Chinese superhero in one of Hong Kong’s most fantastical films ever: Super Inframan! Mixing motorbike shenanigans with mind-boggling fight choreography, a young Danny Lee (internationally known from John Woo’s The Kille...
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The Return Of Swamp Thing
Movie
1989 • United States • Directed by Jim Wynorski
4K RESTORATION WITH DOLBY VISION / HDR MASTERING.
Everyone's favorite muck-encrusted plant-man falls in love with Dr. Arcane's sexy daughter and must rescue her from her father's nefarious and murderous plans. Heather Locklear stars as the vegetar...