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Shooting has started on Neon Grindhouse: Hong Kong, an upcoming documentary that will explore lesser known aspects of Hong Kong Cinema, such as: the sex and sadism of the Cat III film, the wacky Bruceploitation sub-genre and Godfrey Ho’s unbelievable cut-and-paste adventures.
In addition, the femme fatale genre and the high impact, bone-crunching work of the Hong Kong Stunt Community will also be covered. The project will also include interviews with stars like Godfrey Ho, Huang Kin Long (aka Bruce Le) and many more!
Neon Grindhouse: Hong Kong is being produced by an expert team that includes Mike Leeder (Pound of Flesh), Dan Findley, Arne Venema, Sophia Shek and Ivy Lam. For more information, visit the official site and/or follow on Twitter – stay tuned!
Updates: One of the film’s producers, Mike Leeder, has informed COF that he has just completed an in-depth interview with cult director Godfrey Ho (The Dragon, The Hero). Click here for a photo of Ho with the Neon Grindhouse crew: Dan Findlay, Arne Venema and Leeder himself.
MPM, have you seen “Undefeatable”/”Bloody Mary Killer”?
I have not. 🙂 Is that a Rothrock flick?
It’s a notorious ‘so bad it’s good’ (personally I think it’s just bad) Godfrey Ho/Cynthia Rothrock flick. Bloody Mary Killer is the HK edit with extra scenes added with Robin Shoe (he’s not in the american Undefeatable edit).
It’s Rothrock’s most widely available film. Sadly I know a lot of people who have only seen her in this and it’s been enough to put them off trying any of her other films. Which is a shame because Cynthia’s made some bad films (this might be the worst one) but she’s also turned out a few gems. I’m a big Cynthia fan.
we have started shooting various interviews, including an indepth interview with Godfrey Ho where we talk about the IFD movies and which ones he directed, which ones were just his name put on them, the NINJA cut & paste, and his later movies including the Cynthia Rothrock trilogy, we also have Bruce Le discussing the clones and clearing up some of those myths (he was in prison? no he wasn’t) and more..its gonna be a very cool documentary
Looking forward too it Mike (love your dvd commentaries by the way). Hopefully it will be released in the UK in one form or another.
Thanks, we’ve just started and the first interviews we’ve done have already covered a lot of ground and cleared up some of the myths and half truths out there, and some great stories and info coming out of them…. we’ll be updating the site, twitter and City on Fire as we progress
Don´t forget to interview Mr. Ho Chung Tao/Bruce Li