List of Hong Kong Category III and related horror movies: pre-1988

During the Ming Dynasty, scholar Wang Chongwen (Gao Yuan) was a scholar at the age of 14, but he never passed the provincial examination. After having obtained the provincial examination, he approached again. He was afraid of losing his reputation in Sun Shan and began to ask God for advice. One day, he was instructed by a Taoist priest. He went out in the middle of the night and walked to the northwest. When he came to a ruined temple called Kuixingge, he didn't meet the noble person mentioned by the Taoist priest, but he saw a beautiful woman (Zhu Hong) who was crying, and then the beauty disappeared magically. When Wang Chongwen, who was disappointed, came home, the beauty came from heaven to earth, and she called herself Mei Niang, the daughter of the examiner after having obtained the provincial examination. Wang Chongwen was overjoyed after hearing this, and wanted to use her to rise to the top. With the deepening of feelings with Mei Niang, Wang Chongwen's eyes became more and more intolerant of his wife, Chen (Chen Juanjuan), and he was driven out of the house. Chen wanted to commit suicide, but was rescued by Wang Chongwu (Weng Wu), his brother-in-law, who was studying martial arts abroad. After hearing her crying, the latter went home to find out. Soon, he and his brother saw a terrible scene.

A young couple desperately try to keep their love alive, while living in a haunted house.

The daughter of a slain hero is on a mission to take the coveted Gold Dragon Sword back to the Capital for safe keeping.

A young man marries a beautiful woman after accidentally seeing her fully nude. He soon learns that his bride must be the ghost of a woman who was raped and killed by his relative 20 years ago.

The innocent Ai Nu is sold to a brothel run by evil Madam Chun Yi, who falls in love with her at first sight. Quickly becoming the brothel's most desirable courtesan, Ai Nu climbs the ranks in Chinese society. Meanwhile, she secretly plots bloody revenge against all who have wronged her.

One night a textile worker is sexually assaulted by five deviants. The young lady tries to cope with the aftermath of this dramatic event but her life is ruined.

A nurse in a Japanese women's POW camp during World War II masterminds an escapee.

Hsi-Men Ching woos a beautiful woman Pan Chin-lien, and they murder Pan's husband together. However, the adulterer and adulteress don't get to share a wonderful life after their crime.

A young man who has been beaten, abused, humiliated and laughed at all his life finds that he has an unusual empathy with snakes. He can talk to them and they understand him, and eventually he finds that he can get them to do his bidding. He decides to use his newfound friends to take his revenge on everyone who ever did him wrong.

A woman reaches from beyond the grave to claim the man she loves.

In China, Professor Van Helsing helps eight kung fu-trained siblings reclaim their ancestral mountain village, now the domain of seven powerful vampires and their army of undead slaves.

A man agrees to trade his wife to settle his massive gambling debt but is overcome with remorse and guilt. He attempts suicide but is saved by a beautiful ghost.

Ghost Eyes concerns a female hair stylist (Chen Szu-chia) who is seduced by the vampiric ghost of a former optometrist (Szu Wei). Using supernatural contact lenses to control her mind, he gradually drains her life essence as she is forced to find new victims until tries to make a stand and rid herself of this terror once and for all.

In a small town, the only son of the local influential family is found dead and naked in the bed of wine shop proprietress Cheng Niang.

The Haunted House: Two friends are challenged by a third to stay overnight in a haunted house. They each secretly plot against each to other to scare the others and all three are eventually killed in their attempts to drive each other out. The Cold Skeleton: The dead mother of a son keeps reappearing in her son's house even after repeated reburials. It is later revealed that the son is a sleepwalker and digs up the body himself while asleep and places it in his own home before waking. He eventually kills himself. A Wolf Of Ancient Times: A lecherous scholar and his assistant find refuge at the house of a villager and his two nubile daughters. The two girls seduce the young man, but soon reveal themselves to be hopping zombies. The assistant escapes death because he wears a charm around his neck.

An evil magician makes a living by casting deadly spells on people's objects of desire. He gets overly ambitious, and start to go out of control.

The story of action star Bruce Lee's life in the days leading up to untimely death.

A poor woman is mugged, losses her fiancee and gets taken advantage of before turned into a sex slave. Her spirit delivers whats coming to them, all the way back to the original muggers.

After his students are killed by the One Armed Boxer, a vengeful and blind Kung Fu expert travels to a village where a martial arts contest is being held and vows to behead every one armed man he comes across.

An anthology film of four stories that feature far more swindlers and swindling than lovers or love.

A cripple takes revenge on criminals by using a magic spell that transforms him into an oily monster/superhero.

A Hong Kong cop finds himself up to his neck in trouble when he encounters a tricky bunch of crooks and triads.

An evil magician and his zombie minions are up against a trio of doctors who are on a mission to find the cause of an outbreak of unknown diseases caused by his spells.

A greedy Hong Kong businessman captures a 50-foot-tall ape from the Himalayas and puts it on display, but it escapes and goes on a rampage.

A lowly restaurant worker aims to take revenge on the Manchurian thugs who killed his boss by joining a Shaolin temple under the advise from a monk who rescued him from certain death.