Far East Extreme: A Look at Ghosts with a Taoist Twist in “THE IMP”

It seems like retro Hong Kong cinema gets a bad rap by the public at large here in the west. Modern classics like Infernal Affairs and Iron Monkey either get remade by Hollywood or changed to the point of being unrecognizable, while countless influential films from Shaw Bros or Golden Harvest are enjoyed ironically while imitating the oftentimes bad English dubbing. I’m personally ecstatic to find out that the farther and farther I go back into the HK horror catalogue, I keep finding really solid films that stand on their own and are definitely worth watching today.