Thu, Mar 3 at 7:00 PM thru Mar 27

CORPSE MANIA

Brooklyn, New York
$6.63 (includes all fees)

CORPSE MANIA
dir. Kuei Chih-Hung, 1981
Hong Kong. 82 min.
In Cantonese + Mandarin with English subtitles.

Content Warning: sexual assault, necrophilia

A nineteenth-century period piece with equal debts to giallo stagecraft and the excesses of Nekromantik, Corpse Mania consistently flouts expectations over the course of its runtime: you might first mistake the film for a restrained police procedural until director Kuei Chih-Hung reminds you, in the least restrained way possible, that the subject of his film is a serial necrophile with less-than-stellar housekeeping habits.

In the true giallo fashion, however, things are not as simple as they seem, and the killer turns out to be only the center of a bizarre plot linking a constellation of figures from the Hong Kong underworld.


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