Forget Scream’s Ghost Face Killer. This is the movie that actually originated Ghostie, one of the all-time legendary kung fu antagonists (Mystery of Chessboxing also inspired Wu rapper’s Ghost Face Killah moniker). The plot couldn’t be any simpler: revenge. That’s the lighter fluid that fuels a thousand of these films. Old, ruthless Ghost Face hasContinue reading “Mystery of Chessboxing”
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The Challenge
A down on his luck boxer who needs a big score to get himself back on his feet is the plot to about 1,000 genre films from the 40s to the 60s. In The Challenge, the challenge as it were was to do something different with this trope. In the case of this 1982 JohnContinue reading “The Challenge”
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