Asian Trash Cinema: The Book / Asian Cult Cinema:
The Book
Full of
factual errors, often written as though the reviewer hadn't even
watched the film and as of late delving even further into the
dark realm of Japanese bondage and torture films, the Asian
Trash / Cult Cinema books and magazines once stood as
some of the only reference works on Hong Kong cinema available
to Westerners.
I remember
as a budding Joey fan voraciously reading every review in the
books and magazines to determine which Hong Kong film I would
search out next. Some of my earliest memories of Joey center around
the photos contained in the two original books. I intially couldn't
put a name to the face that I'd fallen for as I watched A
Chinese Ghost Story, but through the books and magazines
that mystery was solved.
I didn't
realize until I received notice that my subscription to Asian
Cult Cinema was expiring in 2002 and my decision not to renew
that it had been eleven years since I first read Naked
Screaming Terror #4, the fanzine that preceded Asian
Trash Cinema and I had been a subscriber of Asian
Trash / Cult Cinema for over eight years. I posted my
final thoughts in an open letter to publisher Tom Weisser to the
alt.asian-movies newsgroup and will leave it at that.
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