1980 · horror · shaw-brothers · supernatural
Hex
Directed by Kuei Chih-hung1h 30m1980
Constantly mistreated by her cruel husband, the frail Chan Sau-ying awaits certain death from tuberculosis. The new servant girl, Yi-wah takes pity on her mistress' plight and the pair proceed to drown him one evening. They dump his body in a near-by pond but Sau-ying believes that the man's bloated corpse has risen from the bog to seek vengeance.
Our read: Hex (1980) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive horror · shaw-brothers · supernatural entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror / shaw-brothers, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- intense
- inventive
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