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PORTRAIT IN CRYSTAL
1983
Director
Hua Shan
Starring
Jason Pai Piao
Chun Wong
Lau Yuk-Pok
Lam Sau-Kwan
Runtime
77 minutes
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The ultimate frontier in exhilaratingly incomprehensible kung fu fantasy horror madness!
When the obsessive sculptor Long Fei accidentally infuses his latest masterpiece with his own blood, the crystalline effigy awakens—not as art, but as a ruthless killer stalking the shadows between realms. As bodies fall and the boundary between magic and metal cracks, Long Fei and his bumbling sidekick Fatty are drawn into a hallucinatory hunt through psychedelic forests, poisoned lairs, and ghost-haunted battlegrounds to stop the living statue from claiming more souls. Equal parts martial arts romp, horror oddity, and mystical pulp, PORTRAIT IN CRYSTAL is a cult obscurity where surreal action and supernatural dread collide in gleaming shards of absurdity.
“What if they made the whole movie out of cool stuff? A great movie to just let wash over you for 80 minutes. Lives up to the standard of excellence set by such other Hua Shan-directed films as THE SUPER INFRAMAN, KUNG FU ZOMBIE, and SOUL BROTHERS OF KUNG FU.” - Will Sloan
“Ecstatic wuxia holograms chopped and screwed in a technicolor frenzy. Moves faster than human comprehension. In hyperspeed ultraviolet crystal vision, you can only submit.” - Scumbalina
When the obsessive sculptor Long Fei accidentally infuses his latest masterpiece with his own blood, the crystalline effigy awakens—not as art, but as a ruthless killer stalking the shadows between realms. As bodies fall and the boundary between magic and metal cracks, Long Fei and his bumbling sidekick Fatty are drawn into a hallucinatory hunt through psychedelic forests, poisoned lairs, and ghost-haunted battlegrounds to stop the living statue from claiming more souls. Equal parts martial arts romp, horror oddity, and mystical pulp, PORTRAIT IN CRYSTAL is a cult obscurity where surreal action and supernatural dread collide in gleaming shards of absurdity.
“What if they made the whole movie out of cool stuff? A great movie to just let wash over you for 80 minutes. Lives up to the standard of excellence set by such other Hua Shan-directed films as THE SUPER INFRAMAN, KUNG FU ZOMBIE, and SOUL BROTHERS OF KUNG FU.” - Will Sloan
“Ecstatic wuxia holograms chopped and screwed in a technicolor frenzy. Moves faster than human comprehension. In hyperspeed ultraviolet crystal vision, you can only submit.” - Scumbalina