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"Over the past few years, Spectacle has plumbed the depths of the disgusting effects, dubious morals, and devil fetuses of Hong Kong 'Category III' cinema– the HK film industry’s rough equivalent to the American 'X' rating labeling extreme content. This Spectober, we return to the sticky side with this trio of works featuring those most bloodthirsty, bite-prone, garlic-phobic, and godless of horror villains: Cats!
"Cats have long played a role in Chinese mythology and horror lore, commonly depicted as xianli (仙狸 )– shape-shifting demons of divine or extraterrestrial original, trapped in our realm and intent on sucking the spirits out of humans. Though not as much a staple of Hong Kong cinemas as their hopping vampire and haunted house counterparts, the regional horror boom of the 1980s and 90s still found plenty of room for xianli stories replete with blood, guts, and a dose of kitty kung fu, truly putting the 'cat' in 'Category III'." -Spectacle