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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Hsiang Yun-Peng

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Kam Kwok-Leung

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James Mudge

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Sean Tierney

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Calum Waddell

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