From Shaw to Snakes: The Venom and Violence of Early Chinese Language Horror Cinema

Name: From Shaw to Snakes: The Venom and Violence of Early Chinese Language Horror Cinema
Director: Naomi Holwill
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2023-04-11
Duration: 1 h 16 min
Cast: Godfrey Ho, Hsiang Yun-Peng, Kam Kwok-Leung, James Mudge, Sean Tierney

2023

1h 16m

Documentary

Director: Naomi Holwill

Writer: Naomi Holwill

Overview

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.