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October 20, 2006
IN THE MOOD FOR GORE
A long time ago, Subway Cinema held a retro celebrating Hong Kong horror movies called IN THE MOOD FOR GORE. We took it very seriously and watched an awful lot of flicks before picking 11 movies that we screened for a week around Halloween:
DR. LAMB
UNTOLD STORY
RED TO KILL
BIO ZOMBIE
INNER SENSES
DEVIL FETUS
CHINESE TORTURE CHAMBER STORY
THE STORY OF RICKY
MR. VAMPIRE
ENCOUNTERS OF THE SPOOKY KIND
ETERNAL EVIL OF ASIA
Oddly enough, the flops were the classics like DR. LAMB and UNTOLD STORY, while everything else got a great turn-out. The most disturbing moment was hearing the audience split their sides laughing during RED TO KILL a movie I take way too seriously.
And the most fun was having a kid who'd driven 3 hours for the festival come out of the theater during ETERNAL EVIL OF ASIA, passing out and have a seizure (it might have been another movie, but I'm pretty sure it was EEOA). Being the nice guys we are we took him to the ER then let him sleep on our couch so he didn't die on his drive home.
You can read all the reviews for these movies (and boy are they long) over on the IN THE MOOD FOR GORE site, and don't miss the FOLLOW THAT ACTOR feature. It's fun!
October 20, 2006 at 01:50 AM in Reviews | Permalink
Comments
Laughing during Red to Kill I just don't understand. Unless you're in an altered state, in which case I think it would be more likely to have you cowering under your seat.
My favorite from that extremely fun festival was actually Devil Fetus. So cheap and so bad, yet so perfect. Sadly, it appears very few people voted for it to be remastered during the Joy Sales poll, despite my best efforts. It isn't even available on $6 old school Mei Ah DVD.
Posted by: David Austin | Oct 20, 2006 2:03:41 PM
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