From Shaw to Snakes: The Venom and Violence of Early Chinese Language Horror Cinema
2023, English. Directed by Naomi Holwill.
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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Who directed From Shaw to Snakes: The Venom and Violence of Early Chinese Language Horror Cinema?
From Shaw to Snakes: The Venom and Violence of Early Chinese Language Horror Cinema (2023) was directed by Naomi Holwill and stars Godfrey Ho, Hsiang Yun-Peng, Kam Kwok-Leung.