Love Massacre (Ai sha)

!!! TRADE OFFER !!! You receive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5bf824hXW0 (Youtube restricted to 18+ sadly) https://archive.org/details/Love-Massacre-Uncut-Eng-Subs Love Massacre ripped from an extremely rare and expensive Citymax Laserdisc (it cost me $700 to…

renkls

Crazy movie. I often leave Patrick Tam's films with a feeling of utter confusion and frustration, not necessarily at the movie itself (though sometimes this is warranted) but at my own thoughts: I hate his works but I love them more, masterpieces. I don't think another…

reibureibu

The politics of primary reds. Yuppie ennui giving away for madness and stalk and slash murders. The spaces are empty, stylish dread, the colors are lush, the bodies manequinns long past their expiration date. It is the Chinese Zabriskie Point. In many ways a reversal of…

Filipe Furtado

ghostly, blown-out whites and the almost illegible subtitles rendered this more of a mystery than i was expecting. a few sequences had me fully slasher-screaming but it ultimately becomes a heartbreaking and haunting romantic tragedy. chinese with european arthouse vibes…

KYK

now I know there’s so much blood in us.  San Francisco never looked so isolated and somewhat peaceful, really integrating that artful aspect Patrick Tam set his eye on with his little 80s slasher/ psycho-drama, but peaceful it is not. something feels so off about Love…

c h r i s

Hong Kong movies are notorious for their tonal shifts, where they start out in a certain genre and then they drastically morph into something else entirely. More often than not it doesn't work and it leaves you scratching your head in bepuzzlement. Love Massacre is kind of…

Lou (rhymes with wow!)

I'd probably rate this even higher if it existed in any better quality or at least with legible subtitles. Even so, this is such a remarkable approach to the slasher, as minimalistic as Halloween yet possibly even more geometrically precise as Carpenter. Carpenter's own…

Jake Cole

So, a friend of mine’s girlfriend works at an film festival called Asian American International Film Festival (AAIFF), and he usually lets me know of films events that are happening there, and see if I’m interested at any screening. At first, there was nothing that caught…

FilmShogun

Base instincts bent. Broken in the land of the lost. Hues of passion, pain, derangement and devotion; a fuzzy, Rothkoish exposé of aimless psychosis, brought on by a profound sense of displacement—blazes born at home, stoked to a raging paroxysm by a nation with no identity…

Jerry