Post by petrolino on Aug 5, 2017 23:25:21 GMT
The dark fantasy 'Black Magic' is a spooky melodrama that affirms the spiritual connection felt by the staff of Shaw Brothers Studio to their Mandarin-speaking audience in Malaysia and Singapore. It's a supernatural soap opera filmed in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpar that tells the twisted tale of two opposing wizards, Furong (Koo Man-chung) and San Kan-Mi (Ku Feng). A strong, traditional romantic core is off-set by the film's glazed colours and bizarre goings-on as the horror sub-plot plays out beneath the cloak of darkness.
'Black Magic' filters some startling images through arresting camera moves, paving the way for the greater extremities of Kuei Chih-Hung's psychedelic fantasy 'Hex' (1980) which climaxes with a mesmeric slice of live theatre in which performance art merges with body horror. The film was a popular success in south-east Asia and spawned a sequel I'd like to see which is filmed in Singapore, Meng Hua Ho's 'Black Magic 2' (1976). Chuan Yang's frightening phantasmagoria 'Seeding Of A Ghost' (1983) was originally conceived to be the third part in the 'Black Magic' trilogy but mutated into something else during pre-production. In Malaysian and Singapore art, the spectres of terrifying she-demons such as hantu kopek, hantu kum-kum, the kuntilanak and the miniature polong loom large ... 'Black Magic' is not for the faint of heart!
Saloma
'Black Magic' filters some startling images through arresting camera moves, paving the way for the greater extremities of Kuei Chih-Hung's psychedelic fantasy 'Hex' (1980) which climaxes with a mesmeric slice of live theatre in which performance art merges with body horror. The film was a popular success in south-east Asia and spawned a sequel I'd like to see which is filmed in Singapore, Meng Hua Ho's 'Black Magic 2' (1976). Chuan Yang's frightening phantasmagoria 'Seeding Of A Ghost' (1983) was originally conceived to be the third part in the 'Black Magic' trilogy but mutated into something else during pre-production. In Malaysian and Singapore art, the spectres of terrifying she-demons such as hantu kopek, hantu kum-kum, the kuntilanak and the miniature polong loom large ... 'Black Magic' is not for the faint of heart!
