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From the Arrow Video press release:
On December 9, the most outrageous, haunted action films arrive in Shawscope Volume 4, a Limited-Edition Blu-ray box set containing 16 movies from the vault of Hong Kong’s legendary Shaw Brothers Studios: Super Inframan, Oily Maniac, Battle Wizard, Black Magic, Black Magic Part 2, Hex, Bewitched, Hex Vs. Witchcraft, Hex After Hex, Bats Without Wings, Bloody Parrot, The Fake Ghost Catchers, Demon of the Lute, Seeding of a Ghost, Portrait In Crystal, and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.
Shawscope Volume 4 features epic heroes with superpowers, supernatural skills, and magical spells to go with their iconic wuxia and martial arts moves. All the movies feature new 2K restorations by Arrow Films from the original negatives. The limited edition box set is packed with hours of special features, collectible packaging, and newly commissioned extras.
Super Inframan is the studio’s superhero film for fans of Japanese kaiju movies. Science Headquarters cop (Danny Lee, The Killer) converts into a mechanical kung fu fighting cyborg to protect the world from a Demon Princess. Oily Maniac tells the story of a vigilante (Danny Lee), who uses a spell to transform into an oily monster to seek revenge. Battle Wizard stars Danny Lee as a bookish scholar who fights a trio of villains that attack with snakes, razor teeth, and other unusual weapons.
Black Magic breaks up a wedding when Ti Lung (A Better Tomorrow) abandons his fiancé for a rich widow. Did his change of heart really come from an evil spell? Black Magic Part 2 features an evil sorcerer (Lo Lieh, Five Fingers of Death) loose in a hospital seeking to raise an army of zombies and stay eternally young.
Bewitched follows a police detective to Thailand to investigate if the spirit of a killer had possessed his main suspect. Hex leads a wife to kill her abusive husband with the help of her servant, but they fear he has risen from his watery grave. A compulsive gambler attempts to change his luck by marrying a ghost in Hex Vs. Witchcraft. Lo Mang (Five Deadly Venoms) protects his true love from a demon that wants to possess her body in Hex After Hex.
A villain with his face painted like a shock rock star returns from the grave to terrorize a town in Bats Without Wings. Bloody Parrot turns a simple tale of a swordsman accused of stealing a treasure intended for the emperor into a wild affair with demonic possessions, magical spells, vampires, and the hunt for a supernatural bird that resurrects the dead. A fake spiritualist’s attempt at an exorcism leaves him possessed by his former client in The Fake Ghost Catchers. Demon of the Lute plucks a ragtag group of fighters to locate the only weapon that can stop the destructive musical instrument controlled by an evil spirit. Seeding Of a Ghost starts with a collision as a cab driver runs over a sorcerer only to discover the mystical man sitting in his back seat. Instead of a tip, the cabbie receives a curse that ruins his life. A sculptor carves a crystal warrior that comes to life and brings death in Portrait In Crystal. Science fiction strangeness beams down in Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. A bumbling detective investigates and exploits a music video model’s claim that she was abducted by aliens.
Special features include an illustrated 60-page collectors’ booklet; brand new audio commentaries on many of the movies; the US theatrical version of Super Inframan with lossless “Stereo-Infra-Sound” surround audio; the Cantonese version of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star; brand new video essays; interviews with actor Bruce Le and director Alex Cheung; a French TV profile of Shaw Brothers; appreciations of Super Inframan, Bat Without Wings, Demon of the Lute, and Battle Wizard; brand new video essays; theatrical trailers; TV spots; and radio spots.
Watch the trailer for Shawscope Volume 4 here:
https://youtu.be/DcB7Lnu8wcg
Shawscope Volume 4 is distributed by MVD Entertainment Group.
Nice set for fans of the Shaw Brothers!