From Shaw to Snakes: The Venom and Violence of Early Chinese Language Horror Cinema (2023)
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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Godfrey Ho
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Godfrey Ho is considered a master of B-movie Hong Kong actioners. However, a number of his movies are Z-grade movies made with a "cut-and-paste" technique. He would shoot footage for one movie, often...
Hsiang Yun-Peng
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Kam Kwok-Leung
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Kwok-Leung Kam was born on September 3, 1954 in Hong Kong. He is an actor and writer, known for Wonder Women, Keep on Dancing and Passion Island..
Sean Tierney
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Naomi Holwill