![]() ![]() The courageous Cheung is a pedicab driver who excels in martial arts, a fact he does not hesitate to brag about, and he’s constantly getting into trouble. Encounters of the Spooky Kind (Sammo Hung, 1980)įilms that combine horror with martial arts and comedy were highly popular during Hong Kong’s Golden Era, and this film is one of the most prominent samples. Once more, this is a film that lingers somewhere between cult and trash.Ģ. ![]() The film has its pacing problems, but the gory scenes and various gruesome sequences compensate as much as the performance from Ti Lung in the role of the worker. The disgusting element is definitely not missing here, and this time emerges from the ingredients required for spells, which include human milk and rotten flesh, among others. Ho Meng Hua directs a film that dwells on the horrific as much as the preposterous, including hallucinations at a wedding, graveyard voodoo, leaping ghost girls and even a car chase. His wife, though, is not so eager to let him go, and enlists the help of a good magician to counter the spells. ![]() Eventually, a widow asks him to help her seduce a young worker. The script follows an evil sorcerer who roams the forest and sells his black magic to locals. Here are the 15 best Hong Kong films of the category, in chronological order. The comic element, the Chinese folklore (which includes hopping supernatural creatures), and the extremity in story and depiction make these films stand apart from ones with a different origin, and actually make a genre of their own. This was the horror film, which eventually found its place in Hong Kong and international cinema with a number of masterpieces that became international sensations and in some cases, cult favorites. However, another category that is less known in its majority also asserted its own audience, chiefly among the fans of cult and CAT III. Hong Kong cinema has had an international presence since the 80s, particularly through the martial arts, wuxia and crime films, while in the 90s, arthouse films entered the equation. ![]()
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