Sir Run Run Shaw Archives

Come Drink With Me (1966)

Rating: ★★★½

Nov 8, 2004Hong Kong Flying Swordsmen Fantasy

A classic from Hong Kong's Shaw Brothers that is credited with being the first flying swordsman film. This contains some great action scenes even if the flying swordplay element is minor

Director: King Hu

Actors: Pei-pei Ching, Yueh Hua, Chen Hung Lieh

Category: Fantasy

8 November 200422 February 2026 by Roog

The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974)

Rating: ★★

Jan 3, 2005Hammer Dracula/Kung Fu Vampires

The last of Hammer’s Dracula films made after Christopher Lee departed. A co-production with Hong Kong's Shaw Brothers that shows Hammer trying to jump aboard the 1970s kung fu fad

Director: Roy Ward Baker

Actors: Peter Cushing, Julie Ege, Robin Stewart, John Forbes-Robertson

Category: Horror

3 January 20053 July 2026 by Roog

Oily Maniac (1976)

Rating: ★★

Dec 30, 2014Hong Kong Avenging Superhero

Outrageously whacked Hong Kong film that prefigures The Toxic Avenger in having a downtrodden hero jump into a pool of oil and emerge as an avenging superhero made of oil. Crudely made and pitched, the film's novelty all lies in the bizarreness of its title character

Director: Ho Meng-Hua

Actors: Li Hsiu-Hsien, Feng Ku

Category: Fantasy

30 December 20142 November 2021 by Roog

Blade Runner (1982)

Rating: ★★★★★

Jan 8, 2000Cyberpunk Future/Hunt for Escaped Androids

Ridley Scott's film was not a success at the time but has since been regarded as a SF masterpiece, one of the defining screen treatments of android themes while the incredibly dense Cyberpunk vision of the future was copied by many subsequent films

Director: Ridley Scott

Actors: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Daryl Hannah, …

Category: Science Fiction

8 January 200027 February 2026 by Roog