![]() Examining films before and after the handover of Hong Kong to China, Dr Calum Waddell (University of Lincoln) will interrogate the ways in which these films seem to foreshadow the current political crisis in Hong Kong. As often in extreme exploitation movies, these films challenged a whole range of societal norms and French critic Julien Sévéon will explore the taboo breaking quality of Category III films that has made them such a cultish draw for so many. ![]() In turns gory sexualised, violent and just plain outrageous, Category III films quickly gained a reputation as cult films. The 1990s were a notorious period in the history Hong Kong cinema.
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