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Australia’s Imprint Films will release Shaw-Shock: Shaw Brothers Horror Collection Volume One on May 28.

The Blu-ray box set includes three of the influential Hong Kong studio’s genre films: The Oily Maniac, Seeding of a Ghost, and Sex Beyond the Grave.

1976’s The Oily Maniac (0riginal title: You gui zi) is directed by Ho Meng-hua, written by Chua Lam, and stars Danny Lee, Chen Ping, Hua Lun, and Hsieh Wang.

Legal assistant Shen Yuan follows the directions of an ancient spell, hoping to defend his lifelong love, Yue Yang-Ba. He digs a hole, climbs into the thick black liquid he uncovers, and quickly transforms into an oily monster, taking down criminals and leaving behind a trail of destruction.

Special Features:

1080p presentation with Lpcm 2.0 Mono audio and English subtitles Interview with actor Jack Long (new) Critic Ricky Baker on ‘The Oily Maniac’ (new) Interview with filmmaker Calum Waddell

1983’s...

The Boxer's OmenThe latest in what has been an extraordinarily strong year for Chinese cinema on the New York repertory scene kicks off this weekend as the Metrograph presents a week-long series of “Shaw Brothers Horror” films, all but one of which are screening in 35mm, and all but one of which were produced by the Shaw Brothers studio. As Hong Kong cinema of the 70s and 80s has increasingly become a subject of cinephile interest (more or less in opposition to the genre thrill-seekers who have always loved it), the focus has primarily been on the martial arts genre and its major auteurs and stars. But beneath the surface of the high-class productions and dazzling physical and technical displays in the best of the colony’s output, there lies an electric undercurrent of the cheap, the weird and the flat-out disgusting. By the end of the 1970s, with the...