EPISODE · Jun 12, 2019 · 1H 9M
Episode 65B - More Ambition Than Restraint
from Scream Scene Podcast · host Scream Scene Podcast
We travel back to 1937 Shanghai for China's first entry into the horror genre: Yèbàn gēshēng aka Song at Midnight from director Ma-Xu Weibang. It's a loose but very interesting adaptation of Phantom of the Opera starring Jin Shan, Hu Ping and Shi Chao; a film with a Universal horror aesthetic in a Chinese cultural context! Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 34:27; Discussion 49:15; Ranking 1:03:11
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We travel back to 1937 Shanghai for China's first entry into the horror genre: Yèbàn gēshēng aka Song at Midnight from director Ma-Xu Weibang. It's a loose but very interesting adaptation of Phantom of the Opera starring Jin Shan, Hu Ping and Shi Chao; a film with a Universal horror aesthetic in a Chinese cultural context! Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 34:27; Discussion 49:15; Ranking 1:03:11
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