Titles in the Midnight Madness and City to City programmes are to be announced Tuesday morning and many cult/horror fanatics are looking forward to this year’s Mm lineup. One of the films we expect to hear tomorrow is Red Nights (Les Nuits Rouges du Bourreau de Jade), a Hong Kong-French production that is being described as a “fetish-mystery thriller”. Directed by Julien Carbon and Laurent Courtiaud (scriptwriters of Johnnie To’s Running Out Of Time), it stars Chinese actress Carrie Ng and Chinese-French speaking actor Stephen Wong Cheung-Hing, playing a female Cantonese Opera singer. Some photos taken on set can be seen below. Here’s the synopsis from their website:
During the reign of the first emperor of China, an ingenious torturer concocted an elixir that paralysed its victim’s limbs, while increasing the sensitivity of their nerve endings tenfold. Kept in a jade skull, the elixir could...
During the reign of the first emperor of China, an ingenious torturer concocted an elixir that paralysed its victim’s limbs, while increasing the sensitivity of their nerve endings tenfold. Kept in a jade skull, the elixir could...
- 8/16/2010
- by tiffreviews
- TIFFReviews
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