Member magicpoe Posted May 25, 2007 Member Share Posted May 25, 2007 I searched for a thread on Bloody Parrot but I couldn't find one, so I created one. Here are the first 9min 57seconds of Bloody Parrot. Squint really hard and enjoy. Standard disclaimer here: This is just the first 10 minutes of a really bad boot, but the movie is excellent. xHttd97dtXk Excellent use of the Electro-Harmonix Echoplex in the first couple of minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest peringaten Posted May 26, 2007 Share Posted May 26, 2007 Nice! Hope this exceeds Portrait for sure... cheers for the preview! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest vengeanceofhumanlanterns Posted May 26, 2007 Share Posted May 26, 2007 I simply cannot wait for the remastered (hopefully uncut) version of this film to arrive at my door. One of my all time favorite martial arts films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jmungus Posted May 26, 2007 Share Posted May 26, 2007 reminded me of my kid from kwangtung copy i`d tried to watch the other night :x thx 4 the preview from me too. looks like the great fun im kind of expecting. one of the approx 20-25 remaining must have titles on my most-wanted-shaws list. (dropped my 2 cents about director hua shan in the portrait in crystal thread already). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Live Wire Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 Watched the clip from You Tube yesterday. Hard to follow but from what I saw it seems to be interesting. Is it more a horror movie or more swordsplay? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest morgoth Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 The swordplay looked good. I wouldn't mind seeing this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest vengeanceofhumanlanterns Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 The first nine minutes are nothing. Wait till you see this flick. This film equals Human Lanterns in it's very own way. Probably the two best examples of horror/martial arts films made by Shaws. These sorts of classic films are extremely rare to come by. Though judging the recent (bad) attitudes toward the classic Shaw films, this film will probably be terribly put down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mahsingyi Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 a bit of visual treat...;O) Enjoy...;O)! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest vengeanceofhumanlanterns Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 Nice pics. Any of the dark, gruesome like? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tosh Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 This film equals Human Lanterns in it's very own way. Well that piqued my interest! along with those pics, thanks Mahsingyi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BKarza Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 BP rolls along strong...until. They get to the snake pit, underground lair, mirror section. It's long, pointless and reeks of a lack of any real ideas. Picks up with the finale then the Shaw "take it home/what?" ending. That flawed section aside, I love it. That Human Lanterns comment thingy, scrunched me face up. Just may have caused premature wrinkling.(on top of the wrinkling that PiC may have caused) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest vengeanceofhumanlanterns Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 I agree putting it on equal grounds with Human Lanterns is making a very strong assertion for it to live up too, but I think this film does come very close to just that. If not on the same level then I'd declare with "unwavering confidence" that this film comes only second to Human Lanterns in the horror/martial arts genre. I definitely disagree about the snake pit and the ending. I felt the set used for the finally scenes were great. Very reminiscent of Web Of Death only darker and more eerie. There's alao a lot of ambient scenes with a frog here, a cobra there, a lizard over there, these little touches down in the dark, gloomy pit, add a great deal to making the intended atmosphere tangible. Chan Shen has a great fight scene in this film. In fact the choregraphing of the fight scenes is great. The film kinda gives me an impression of, if Chu Yuan decided to cut back a little on complexity of plot, so as not to convolute the storyline too much, and decide to actually try and scare the living sh#t out of his audience with a few scenes in particular... the possession of the young girl, he may have trancended to the director of Bloody Parrot's overall delivery. With absolutely no disrespect to Chu Yuan, I own almost all his pre - 84 flicks, but what we have here is an EXTREMELY cool flick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Brigadier Chow Posted June 6, 2007 Member Share Posted June 6, 2007 Vengeance, Hua Shan directed this one, not Chu Yuan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest oldeschool17 Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 mahsingyi, where did you get screencaps of this and other dvds that havent been released? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest vengeanceofhumanlanterns Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 Vengeance, Hua Shan directed this one, not Chu Yuan No you misunderstood me. I know that. I was exemplifying a comparison between the two directors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Brigadier Chow Posted June 7, 2007 Member Share Posted June 7, 2007 OK, I got it Vengeance, my mistake. Those images look like they are from the original lobby cards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Markgway Posted April 26, 2008 Share Posted April 26, 2008 I'm only 52m thru BLOODY PARROT but it has me wondering...?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member venoms5 Posted April 26, 2008 Member Share Posted April 26, 2008 No way Markgway. SEX BEYOND THE GRAVE is the PLAN 9 of Shaw Brothers movies, IMO. BLOODY PARROT is bad, but taken as sheer exploitation, it delivers in spades. ***************SPOILER AHEAD******************** Granted, by the end, it's revealed there is no supernatural elements at all but yet no explanation is given as to why Jenny Liang gets possessed by a demonic force earlier in the film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member ironfistedmonk Posted April 26, 2008 Member Share Posted April 26, 2008 I thought Bloody Parrot was alright! There are a few I consider a lot worse such as Journey of the Doomed, Descendant of the Sun, Buddhas Palm, that one with Lee Hoi Sang with bright red hair riding a giant disco ball, I forget the name Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member venoms5 Posted April 26, 2008 Member Share Posted April 26, 2008 that one with Lee Hoi Sang with bright red hair riding a giant disco ball, I forget the name I think that's DEMON OF THE LUTE (1983). I didn't watch the entire movie, though at least not yet. DESCENDANT OF THE SUN I liked for the insanity factor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member teako170 Posted April 26, 2008 Member Share Posted April 26, 2008 I'm only 52m thru BLOODY PARROT but it has me wondering...?? Squakkkk.. Marky wanna cracker?? Haven't seen any of these films but for me ... "The Shaw Razzie Award" goes to ... NINE DEMONS! Good gravy man! Chang, what-were-you-thinking? (or smoking??) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Killer Meteor Posted April 26, 2008 Member Share Posted April 26, 2008 I thought Challenge of the Masters was my least favourite, but as far as quality is concerned, Ten Tigers Of Kwantung was pretty wretched - good fun though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Markgway Posted April 26, 2008 Share Posted April 26, 2008 No way Markgway. SEX BEYOND THE GRAVE is the PLAN 9 of Shaw Brothers movies, IMO. I've yet to have the (dis)pleasure. BLOODY PARROT is bad, but taken as sheer exploitation, it delivers in spades. I'm sure the dreadful Jenny Leung was cast purely on her willingness to show her pubes! Granted, by the end...... Lol, so it gets WORSE??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Markgway Posted April 26, 2008 Share Posted April 26, 2008 I thought Challenge of the Masters was my least favourite, but as far as quality is concerned, Ten Tigers Of Kwantung was pretty wretched - good fun though Not a big fan of either of those... but yikes they're classics compared to the shit we're talking about. NINE DEMONS isn't Shaws and is thus disqualified. (Haven't seen it myself though...) Some of those 80s wuxia are pretty weak granted, but PARROT is REALLY badly made. It looks like the work of rank amateurs. Or to quote Delroy Lindo in GET SHORTY: "I've seen better film on teeth!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member MasterDrunk Posted April 26, 2008 Member Share Posted April 26, 2008 Teako,dunno weather its shaw brothers or not {it does say shaw scope on the cover] But Nine Demons {Nine deadly venoms on my double bill} was the weirdest maddest diabolical film ive ever seen in any genre,had the odd nightmare after watching it.Still sends a shiver down me thinking about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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