This Week In Sleaze is the adults only show where the Podcast On Fire Network lets the sleaze and nudity rule as the Category III era gets a chance to matter, be laughed at or ridiculed.
A deep dive into one of the more disturbing crime sprees that gripped Tuen Mun in the early ’90s. Crimes that inspired a handful of grim, low-budget procedurals. One of them came from Danny Lee’s direct-to-video arm at Magnum Films. With Sleazy K and The Great Lord Joshua Regal.
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In The Holy Virgin vs the Evil Dead (1991), martial arts director Tony Lou—who’d already jumped from wild Wuxia epics to girls-with-guns carnage—takes the Category III plunge and ends up in bed with Donnie Yen (not literally, but you get the idea). It’s the best of all worlds: supernatural horror, Hong Kong action, and softcore sleaze, all colliding in a jungle-set fever dream. With Sleazy K and The Great Lord Joshua Regal. Read More
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Fruit Chan’s favorite cinematographer dives into the world of smut. Lam Wah-chuen kicks off his directing career with The Beauty’s Evil Roses (1992), a wild mix of softcore sleaze and black magic mayhem. With Sleazy K and The Great Lord Joshua Regal.
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Two British teenagers are killed. It’s dubbed The Braemar Hill Murders. In 1992, a Category III film was made about their grisly fate. This is Suburb Murder. With Sleazy K and The Great Lord Joshua Regal. Read More
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Continuing our look at when the Wuxia film went Category III, in this episode we talk Slave Of The Sword. From the director of Fantasy Mission Force. With Sleazy K and The Great Lord Joshua Regal. Read More
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The martial world can be a dirty, grimy place of gory violence, and that can warrant a Category III classification. It did, in the case of the 1993 Wuxia film The Assassin. With Sleazy K and The Great Lord Joshua Regal. Read More
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True life Hong Kong crime on film is a staple of Category III film but often in a grisly manner. Serial killers, rapists, cannibalism, that sort of thing. But crime comes in different forms and in this episode we take a look at the kidnapping case of businessman Teddy Wang. A story adapted into a Jackie Chan film but also into a cheapo Wong Jing film: Kidnap Of Wong Chak Fai. With Sleazy K and The Great Lord Joshua Regal. Read More
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