Black Magic 2
- heavy
- brisk
- intense
- inventive
- cold
Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror / shaw-brothers, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →A doctor suspects black magic on his hospital after experiencing some bizarre incidents and sends for two doctors (who are a couple) from Hong Kong. The wife is very skeptical and places volunteer for a spell. It became obvious that here is an evil wizard who stay young by including drinking human breast milk. A Shaw Brothers production.
Our read · Black Magic 2 (1976) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive horror · shaw-brothers · sorcery entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of Black Magic 2
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“You want campy 1970s Shaw Brothers horror with zombies and black magic weirdness.”
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