Crippled Avengers - Intro
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Crippled Avengers (1978)
As the ‘70s turned into the ‘80s, Shaw Bros Studios kept trying to figure out what the kids wanted and so directors like Chang Cheh pushed kung fu movies into wilder territory, and it doesn’t get any weirder than this one. This is kung fu movies at their most gothic, gory, and baroque.
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