What Shaw Brothers films do you have?

[42ndStreetFreak]

Originally Posted by Gigantor

Which ones have you watched?

All of 'em.

[Gigantor]

Lots of fun movies on your list,I haven't seen Shanghai 13 What did you think of it?

[42ndStreetFreak]

Originally Posted by Gigantor

Lots of fun movies on your list,I haven't seen Shanghai 13 though

That's lots of fun. Gets a rather bad rep though.

Basically it's a showcase for Shaw's talent where they each play a person helping the lead character.
Basically he's told to get help from X, X helps him, baddies arrive, X dies defending him...onto the next helper. Basically human stepping stones.

Simple plot, but as such you get to see a lot of skilled fighters/actors each having their own kick ass set-piece, before moving onto the next one.

Features the likes of Ti Lung, Andy Lau, Wang Yu, Sing Chen, Danny Lee, Leung Kar Yan, David Chiang.

Cheap, not shot on Shaw's sets, but fun, star packed and bloody.

[Inspector Tanzi]

Originally Posted by 42ndStreetFreak

I have these on VHS/DVD-R

"The Killer" (not Chow!)

I prefer the other title for it "Sacred Knives of Vengeance"

These is no dvd release but I'm looking for the Dutch vhs, I have the U.K. Warner tape but it's slightly cut by those scumbags at the BBFC.

[Inspector Tanzi]

Originally Posted by 42ndStreetFreak

"Bamboo House of Dolls"

One of the best exploitation films out there in my eyes.

I love the way they use Morricone's "Garden of delights" in the opening credits.

[Inspector Tanzi]

Watched the Wellgo blu ray of THE DELIGHTFUL FOREST, this has got to be the best Shaw blu ray I have seen so far, beautiful looking print, looks like it could have been filmed yesterday!

[Gigantor]

Its weird after Celestial pictures announced that they were giing to be releasing the SB library I was certian there would be a lot of talk/mention of BAMBOO HOUSE OF DOLLS but i have heard absolutely nothing about it at all.


How are the WELLGO DVD Releases?
Are they any good?
Do they have any extras?

[Inspector Tanzi]

Originally Posted by Gigantor

Its weird after Celestial pictures announced that they were giing to be releasing the SB library I was certian there would be a lot of talk/mention of BAMBOO HOUSE OF DOLLS but i have heard absolutely nothing about it at all.


How are the WELLGO DVD Releases?
Are they any good?
Do they have any extras?

I haven't got any WELLGO DVD releases, all I have are the three blu rays, all they have are trailers.

[42ndStreetFreak]

Nice work. Very true.
This really started when DVD came.

DVD was the best thing to happen to horror for decades.
BUT, along with the internet, it made hunting down OOP films on dusty old tapes from boxes under a stall pretty much redundant.
And they were fun times. Crucial times in a collector's life.

And yes, once seen by the general masses many films lost their shine and yes, many were just shown to be not that good anyway...a thing of basic perspective and changing times.

We were not spoilt so much once, so any sneaky thrill found in a box or found in the zine classifieds, no matter how actually good, elevated that thrill to heights perhaps above it's real worth.

Plus newer, easier to shoot on video and market on The Net, straight to DVD, exploitation actually became much more extreme so the likes of "August Underground" (in America at least just as easy to get on DVD as a Shaw Bros horror film) pushed aside the likes of "Bamboo House of Dolls" in the 'must see content' stakes.

Double edged swords and all that.

[Inspector Tanzi]

Originally Posted by Nanyang Man

Bamboo House of Dolls is a great example of all of the above -- while it was obscure it was this legendary WIP shocker that pushed the envelope against all of its sub-genre, but once it was eventually released in legitimate form...well, no-one seemed interested in it anymore...

Personally it's my favourite Women in Prison film.

Besides pre 2002 I'd only seen maybe 15 or so Shaw films.