Tonight at New Beverly Cinema, enjoy Blood Call and Encounter of the Spooky Kind 2, part of Brian Quinn’s Eastern Grind collection. “Stay sober enough to read the subtitles, and be prepared for over-the-top films in which ANYTHING can happen!” Thank you Brian for showing some of the best movies I’ve ever seen!
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For this event we’ll be starting out with BLOOD CALL (198…8), a true obscurity that’s the only film from mysterious director Tung Liu (using the odd name Oli Nicole). This strange film stars Max Mok (ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA series) and Eddie Ko (John Woo’s HEROES SHED NO TEARS, LETHAL WEAPON 4) in a tale that combines a slasher film with a police thriller and somehow also manages to squeeze in a heartfelt warning about the danger that pagers present to modern society. This is a film that none of us has seen before, but after our last Eastern Grind event some of the audience stayed behind to watch the first reel of the film and the overwhelming response was that we needed to show the rest of this bizarre and dreamlike rarity. During the screening of this film, we remind everyone to turn off their pagers or risk pissing off the mad killer.
Following this we’ll be bringing back a real fan favorite, Sammo Hung’s ENCOUNTER OF A SPOOKY KIND II (1990). This totally insane martial arts/horror/comedy is a sequel to his huge hit of a decade earlier and delivers everything one expects from a vintage Hong Kong film. While not as well known in the US as Jackie Chan and Jet Li, Sammo Hung is one of the most important figures in Hong Kong cinema over the last 40 years as not only an actor but also as a director, producer, writer, stuntman and action director. He’s also, despite his large size, one of the most talented martial artists and acrobats in film history. Don’t miss this chance to see one of his greatest hits on the big screen!
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