Corpse Mania

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This special limited edition spot gloss slipcover (designed by Chris Barnes) is limited to 6,000 units and is only available on our website and at select indie retailers. Absolutely no major retailers will be stocking them.

After a defiled corpse is discovered in an abandoned building, Inspector Zhang recognizes the scene as being similar to other mutilated bodies that have been turning up in the area. Realizing that there is a deranged serial killer at large, Zhang's investigation soon leads him to a local brothel run by the headstrong Madame Lan, which appears to be the killer’s hunting ground. While public suspicion soon falls on a recently released-from-prison necrophile, Zhang is unconvinced, believing that the killer and their motive are hiding in plain sight.

Directed by horror maestro Chih-Hung Kwei (Hex, The Boxer's Omen), CORPSE MANIA masterfully fuses Shaw Brothers’ well-regarded dramatic period pieces with the structure and style of the Italian giallo, offering foggy streets, gelled lighting, and grisly murders perpetrated by a black-clad killer. Moving from twist to twist and sure to leave viewers squirming in horror all the way to the end, Vinegar Syndrome is proud to present this essential Hong Kong horror on UHD, newly restored in 4k from its original camera negative, packed with extras, and featuring all the maggot-covered corpses one could ask for.

directed by: Chih-Hung Kwei
starring: Ni Tien, Jung Wang, Tsui-Ling Yu, Siu-Kwan Lau, Erik Ka-Kei Chan, Tat-Wah Tso, Wei-Tu Lin, Ching-Ho Wang
1981 / 82 min / 1.85:1 / Cantonese Mono

Additional info:

• 2-disc Set: 4K Ultra HD / Region A Blu-ray
  
• 4K UHD presented in High-Dynamic-Range
  
• Newly scanned & restored in 4K from its 35mm original camera negative
  
• Commentary with Ming Beaver Kwei, son of director Chih-Hung Kwei and filmmaker Alan Chu
  
• Commentary with film historian Samm Deighan
  
• "Statistics with the Producer" - an interview with producer Lawrence Wong
  
• Video interview with Lee San Yip, cinematographer on Corpse Mania
  
• Video interview with Ming Beaver Kwei, son of director Chih-Hung Kwei
  
• "Chih-Hung Kwei: Shaw Brothers’ Master of Horror" - a video essay by film historian and author Grady Hendrix
  
• Reversible sleeve artwork
  
• Newly translated English subtitles