Spooky Encounters: A Gwailo's Guide to Hong Kong Horror Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Spooky Encounters: A Gwailo's Guide to Hong Kong Horror Book

Flying ghosts, hopping vampires, seductive spirits, tree demons, evil sorcerers, living skeletons, possessed limbs and giant predatory tongues! Tsui Hark's A Chinese Ghost Story in 1987 gave many Western viewers their first taste of supernatural thrills, Oriental style. Yet the film was a comparatively late entry in a well-established genre. From Sammo Hung's Spooky Encounters to King Hu's valedictory Painted Skin, the 1980s Hong Kong ghost film cycle produced a stylish and distinctive body of work that compares with the best of Universal and Hammer. Gwailo...is the Chinese term for a white foreigner is gwailo. Often translated as 'foreign devil', gwailo is more accurately rendered as 'white ghost' or 'ghost man'. Which is appropriate.Read More

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  • 1900486318
  • 9781900486316
  • Daniel O'Brien
  • 1 June 2003
  • Critical Vision (an imprint of Headpress)
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 192
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