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Topic Started: Sep 26 2007, 03:30 PM (10,813 Views)
petcor80
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I recieved my Run and Kill DVD today. Both the film and the bonus feature Intruder have options for Cantonese language and English subtitles. Picture quality looks good, there are also 6 bonus trailers of which only one is in English (the IFD movie Virgin Apocalypse/Angels with Golden Guns). Altogether a very nice package for a good price! Thanks for the tip Jack!!
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Jack J
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My pleasure. And actually I received my copy a couple of days ago as well and I look forward to seeing it. Or rather re-seeing it, this time uncut! :)

- And D&T enclosed a little pack of lollies! How nice. :D


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I do not know how far back your (plural) interest in Hong Kong movies goes, but I still remember well a Shaw Studios Production film entitled BEYOND THE GRAVE, made in 1954 and starring Lucilla Yuming. The story is based on the one in Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio about a romance between a man and a ghost, and was remade later as both THE ENCHANTING SHADOW and A CHINESE GHOST STORY.
Here are some scenes from the film that I have found on the internet.

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Mar 28 2008, 01:02 AM
I do not know how far back your (plural) interest in Hong Kong movies go, but I still remember well a Shaw Studios Production film entitled BEYOND THE GRAVE, made in 1954 and starring Lucilla Yuming. The story is based on the one in Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio about a romance between a man and a ghost, and was remade later as both THE ENCHANTING SHADOW and A CHINESE GHOST STORY.
Here are some scenes from the film that I have found on the internet.

Hi Singaporeguy,
Personally I don't limit myself to a certain period or genre. I say if it's good it's good. Thanks for those stills/pictures. I have seen both THE ENCHANTING SHADOW and A CHINESE GHOST STORY (and the sequels and some of the rip-offs too) but never BEYOND THE GRAVE. I've read about it thought and would love to see it. Do you know if it is available in any format?

Btw, did you see this film back then, I mean at the cinema?


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I do not think that this film is included in the Celestial re-release of the old Shaw movies of the late 50s and 60s, as it was in B/W and even in 1954 the quality wasn't very good (yes I did see the fim at the cinema at the time). However, the film is still in existence (unlike Cathay-Keris' PONTIANAK and DENDAM PONTIANAK) as it was featured in a retrospective season of old Shaw Studios movies held in Hong Kong in 2003, so there may be hope that eventually it will be released in either VCD or DVD format.

http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/en/ppr_release_det....=20030325&ps=04

Another movie was included in the programme that may be of interest to forum members is entitled MIDNIGHTMARE (SONG AT MIDNIGHT is the Chinese title), which was released in 1962 and starred the late great Betty Ledi of ENCHANTING SHADOW fame. The story line is based on a 1937 Chinese novel, but is very similar to PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, including a disfigured hero scarred in an acid attack and an opera troupe. Here is a link to this film

http://www.geocities.com/lediweb/YBGS1_E.htm
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SONG AT MIDNIGHT: the original movie, directed by Maxu Weibang in 1937, is available on DVD. At least three different editions exist...
But I don't know if the sequel, also shot by Weibang some months later, still exist...

About the two first PONTIANAK, I really never understood this story about the producer destroying the negatives and the prints. If it's true, it was totally foolish, as both movies were among the most succesful of Malaysia's cinema history. Furthermore, both were shown in other Asian countries, not only in Singapore and Malaysia, so, how can we tell that no copy subsist somewhere ? including in the USA for the first one, as apparently it was shown on US TV !!!
And just explain me why a producer would destroy two of his movies and not the others - and among his titles, just the more successful ones ??? incredible. And this, just because his wife wanted more place in their house ! it would have been far more judicious to kill the wife !
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Thanks! I just checked Yesasia and they have it!

http://global.yesasia.com/en/PrdDept.aspx/...pid-1004683157/

Where did you hear about the producer destroying the prints? That sounds so weird it's almost surreal. :o


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This sad story is related in an number of websites, about Maria Menado and the Pontianak movies. Apparently some years ago she gave a party and wanted to locate a print of her first Pontianak movie and was saddened in learning the fate of the two first movies in the series.
"Pontianak Kembali" apparently is also a "lost" film.

The following link contains a VERY detailed review of "Sumpah Pontianak", and includes informations about the destruction of the prints of the two others. On the same site, you'll find also another BIG review of "Pontianak Gua Musang". Both contains spoilers but can also serve as a guide to fully understand the movie's complicated screenplays.

http://www.braineater.com/pontianak/sumpah.html

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Have a look at this interview with Maria Menado in which she laments the loss of her first great "hit"

http://star-ecentral.com/news/story.asp?fi...2763&sec=movies

I must say that whereas I can recall the details of the first "Pontianak" very clearly, my memory is a bit hazy about the content of "Dendam Pontianak". The only scenes I can recall were when Pontianak has a magical fight with the old witch ("Nenek Kebayan"), and a scene towards the end of the movie when she is held at bay by a potential victim reciting from the Koran on a prayer mat. Obviously the second film was not as memorable as the first, as far as I am concerned!
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Returning to the theme of Hong Kong ghost and horror movies, the following book is a useful guide in the English language of the genre dating from its heyday in the 80s

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Reviews

http://www.popmatters.com/books/reviews/s/...ters-2004.shtml

http://www.kinocite.co.uk/17/1749.php

Preview (selected pages)

http://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&id=8...Ae82JXA#PPA3,M1
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