“Hey, Sexy! Wanna party?” With those words, Candy, a street walker, finds herself shoved into a van and almost at the mercy of a couple of Los Angeles goons with nothing but raping and killing on thei...

In which a freedom fighter is crucified, imprisoned, blinded, and then - due to some unfortunate use of black magic - turned into a pig! It’s time to get weird and wild, B-movie fans! The Warrior Tril...

Drugs are bad, mmkay? The third film directed by Tong Kai , one of the greatest Kung-Fu choreographers to have worked with the Shaw Brothers , is a masterpiece. And you thought martial arts couldn’t b...

“I just want money.” You aren’t ready for this rumble! Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In is a non-stop beat-down which takes its high-kick cues from Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest films of the pas...

It’s monkey style kung-fu versus snake style in Sammo Hung ’s highly entertaining Knockabout , a comical slick of chop socky which will have you laughing in no time.The comedy is what happens when two...

“It’s alive! It’s alive!” Thanks to the glorious electrical effects of Kenneth Strickfaden , most viewers know the key sequence in Frankenstein in which the mad Henry Frankenstein (a tremendous perfor...

In which the 18 legendary weapons of China are dispatched to put an end to the bullet! Lei Kung ( Liu Chia-Liang ) is acting strangely. The Boxer rebellion is in full swing and several clans have swor...

In which a wall of 12 monks stacked on each others’ shoulders forces Derek Yee to perform the human corkscrew maneuver to slide right past them! Opening with a surprise attack by four ninja-dressed as...

The martial arts hijinks continue with the introduction of the “3 Holy Fools” who raise one of the two newborn sons destined to be emperor some day. Shaolin Prince is an epically cool late-era Shaw Br...

In which an abacus becomes a weapon! Inviting a muscle-strapped cat named the ‘Spearman’ ( Lung Tung Sheng ) to a peace party is not a good idea. Okay, sure, the various members of the ‘Iron Flag’ cla...

In which a rather stoned-looking King Kong (put down the sleep inducing berries, man!!) gets to ride a bundle of hot air balloons across the sea and then summon a whole lot of lightning in order to ki...

New Fist of Fury could have been so much better. Sure, it was the film that began to launch its star, Jackie Chan , into the martial arts stratosphere but it’s not nearly as smooth sailing as the orig...

Gloriously over-the-top and wonderfully directed by Sun Chung, Human Lanterns is what happens when the Shaw Brothers merge their particular brand of martial arts with the American slasher . . . and th...

“At first glance, everything looked the same. It wasn’t. Something evil had taken possession of the town.” Oh, to travel back to the 1950s. If I could, I would just sit myself in a drive-in theater wi...

Frankenstein will never die. Know this. While some form of the monster may come and go, the mad scientist responsible for all his carnage will never completely disappear. Hammer ’s final moments with...