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Guangzhou (Canton) born Chor Yuen studied Chemistry at the Sun Yat Sen University before getting into the Hong Kong film industry. He worked his way up and soon became a sought-after director. “Cold Blade” (1970) was his first wuxia film, and after joining Shaw Brother Studio in 1971, he directed “Duel for Gold” and then “Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan”. Chor’s adaptation of Gu Long‘s 17 novels from 1976 onwards into a series of swordplay wuxia films won him more recognitions, awards and international reputation.

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With “Bat Without Wings”, a film adapted from Huang Ying’s novel, Chor again brings us more wuxia mystery and detective thrills to the big screen but with a touch of horror. The film’s title refers to a notorious and highly skilled swordsman who rapes beautiful women and kills them. In order to stop him for good,...

During the late 60s and early 70s, a series of Italian-made genre films focusing on extravagant, deeply intertwined murder mysteries, known as Giallo, became a hugely popular and profitable export from the country. Director Kuei Chih-hung, fresh off his first of several black magic gross-outs, was apparently so impressed with the genre he transported the style to Hong Kong, added grime and some chop-socky kung-fu to make this bizarre, enjoyable effort for the Shaw Brothers studio.

After a body’s discovered in an apartment, Police Inspector Zhang looks over the report and notes the similarities in the case to a similar report in a neighboring village. Arriving in Foshan, he comes across Madam Lan the owner of a local whorehouse who is having to force Yan-erh to deal with the more troublesome girls in her employ. After a series of gruesome murders are committed around the grounds of the brothel,...