RELEASE DATE: May 28, 2025
On May 28, 2025, Imprint is releasing the Blu-ray (Region B) collection for Shaw-Shock: Shaw Brothers Horror Collection – Volume One, featuring three of the studio’s most extreme and unrelenting horror films.
These films deliver a mix of supernatural terror, eerie suspense, and intense gore. Prepare for a harrowing cinematic journey into the unknown, where the line between the living and the dead is blurred in the most gripping and unforgettable ways.
The Oily Maniac (1976)
Legal assistant Shen Yuan follows the directions of an ancient spell, hoping to defend his lifelong love, Yue Yang-Ba. He digs a hole, climbs into the thick black liquid he uncovers, and quickly transforms into an oily monster, taking down criminals and leaving behind a trail of destruction. Will the identity of the Oily Maniac be revealed?
Fans of The Blob, Swamp Thing, and The Greasy Strangler will be right at home with this insane, messy trip.
Special Features & Technical Specs:
- 1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-ray
- NEW Interview with actor Jack Long
- NEW Critic Ricky Baker on ‘The Oily Maniac’
- A Slippery Story – interview with filmmaker Calum Waddell
- Aspect Ratio 2.41:1
- Audio: LPCM 2.0 Mono
- Optional English Subtitles
Seeding of a Ghost (1983)
A Hong Kong taxi driver is cursed by a sorcerer. After his wife is raped and killed by teenage hooligans, he makes a pact with evil forces to unleash revenge and bring his wife back from the dead…
Packed with zombies, gruesome deaths, Thing-like beasts, and pints of crimson-red blood coating the walls – this is a must-see horror for all fans of The Evil Dead.
Special Features & Technical Specs:
- 1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-ray
- NEW Critic James Mudge on ‘Seeding of a Ghost’
- Seeding of a Trend: The Birth of Hong Kong Splatter Cinema – interview with filmmaker Calum Waddell
- Aspect Ratio 1.85:1
- Audio: LPCM 2.0 Mono
- Optional English Subtitles
Sex Beyond the Grave (1984)
Worldwide first on Blu-ray!
A woman is raped and murdered during World War II. Forty years later she returns to haunt her persecutors from the Tao Tao Mansion. A professor and his family move into the house, only to have the spirits take their son.
With plentiful rotting flesh, a flying refrigerator, and one of the longest stripteases ever committed to celluloid, this truly insane entry in the Shaw Brothers catalogue must be seen to be believed, with a title that truly lives up to its name.
Original title: Fung lau yuen gwai.
Special Features & Technical Specs:
- 1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-ray
- NEW Audio Commentary by Dylan Cheung
- NEW Critic Victor Fan on ‘Sex Beyond the Grave’
- Aspect Ratio TBC
- Audio: LPCM 2.0 Mono
- Optional English Subtitles
Packaged together in a Limited Edition Hardbox, strictly limited to 1500 copies only.
