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...Harvard Book Store, Murch is one of the great unknowns in the art world today. Besides editing the screen adaptation of Ondaatje’s novel The English Patient and winning multiple Oscars, Murch has worked on The Godfather Trilogy, Apocalypse Now, The Talented Mr. Ripley, and Ghost...
...sorcerous arcana. A priest in ?CESK? announces these rules, as if every educated person knows them: ?When two opponents have the same strength, the one with the taller altar will win,? and ?He who wears a red petticoat will be possessed by the god of war.? ?Devil Fetus? mixes ghost lanterns and paper money (actual paraphernalia of grieving) with a levitating mom, a bleeding mirrors and a flying carpet that?s less magic than black magic. To make a ?love hex? operable, in ?Eternal Evil,? a man needs his sister?s sweat; and Julie Lee tells the hero...
...films came in two main flavors. One was the luridly violent melodrama: ?The Untold Story,? for example, with Anthony Wong as a restaurateur who kills people and serves them up dumpling-style. The other was period fantasy with lots of simulated sex. In epics such as ?Erotic Ghost Story? and ?Liu Jai: Home for the Intimate Ghosts,? horny demons and succubi preyed on innocent maidens and scholars, and the rite of copulation was a vigorous and elaborate martial art. Until about 1997 - when Britain ceded the colony to Mainland China, and the helium coincidentally seeped out of the cinematic balloon...
...Subway collective might have chosen other films in this mood. Ng See-yuen?s 1982 ?Seeding of a Ghost? was a worthily loopy predecessor to ?Devil Fetus.? Wong Chang-yeung?s ?Holy Virgin vs. the Evil Dead? (1991) is up there with ?Eternal Evil of Asia? as a spiked cocktail of Taoism, terror and tits. ?Run and Kill,? which Billy Tang made between ?Dr. Lamb? and ?Red to Kill,? matches those films in deranged fury with its tale of a fat shlub (Kent Cheng) whose wife is killed, and child char-broiled, by every triad goon and psycho slaverer west...
...chosen so many exemplary horror films from the old days, so few today. The current crop all want to be ?The Ring? or its even paler Hong Kong knockoff, ?The Eye,? another big hit that is soon to be remade in Hollywood. Note to moguls: Forget the newer Asian ghost stories. Think about redoing ?Devil Fetus? with state-of-your-art special effects, or ?Red to Kill? with Benicio Del Toro as the doctor and Katie Holmes as the imperiled girl. And don?t worry about making it NC-17 - the video will...