"Hong Kong has produced horror films for as long as they've been making movies, but their sweet spot was objectively a stretch between the 80s and 90s. So-called Cat III films — movies "given" the Category III rating signifying adult content in the form of extreme violence/gore, sexual imagery, or even incredibly dark themes — found their niche with wild visuals, absolutely bonkers set-pieces, crazy/cruel pairings of T&A and terror, gross things going in and out of people's mouths, slime-covered monstrosities, heavy doses of the weird and fantastical, and lots and lots of blood.
Anything is possible in a Hong Kong horror movie — you often, quite literally, have no idea what's going to happen next — and that WTF insanity makes "Hong Kong horror" a force to be reckoned with. With more than two decades of prime HK horror goodness to enjoy, there's no shortage of new discoveries."
