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Human Lanterns

Human Lanterns

1982
Action, Horror
1h 39m
Chao Chun-fang (Lo Lieh), a mentally unbalanced lantern maker gets a chance to avenge his mistreatment by two rich and powerful men when one of the men (who are enemies, in fact) asks him to make special lanterns for an approaching festival. Chao then methodically kills three female family members of the two wealthy men and peels off their skin to use as a covering for the lanterns. (Allmovie.com)

Directed by:

Chung Sun

Screenwriter:

Chung Sun, Kuang Ni

Genres:

Action, Horror

AKA:

Ren pi deng long

Country:

Hong Kong

Language:

Mandarin

Human Lanterns

1982
Action, Horror
1h 39m
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Avg Percentile 57.75% from 48 total ratings

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Rated 05 Oct 2020
68
57th
Crouching Tiger, Flaying Skeleton is quite enjoyable and generally pulls away from the more lurid details, though they love to show the skin he's, well, skinned off of them. There's a rape scene where they cut to seven or eight visual euphemisms that had me laughing. Not that I laugh at rape scenes. Oh God.
Rated 18 Jun 2020
80
77th
It’s a movie called Human Lanterns, you get everything you were expecting and than some more. Unless you were thinking Human Lanterns was some Bergman romp, than baby oh you are in for something.
Rated 24 Jun 2013
70
63rd
Weird Shaw Brothers flick about two feuding kung fu masters in a small town which is being terrorized by a psycho killer. While I appreciate the effort to do something different than the standard "You killed my teacher" revenge plot, none of the attempted horror elements come off very well. There's some blue lights and Evil Dead-cam, and a little bit of gore, but it's still your basic Shaw kung fu flick with quality production values and martial arts. Good, but not quite a classic.
Rated 24 Oct 2023
78
72nd
Yikes, the skin peeling scenes were brutal. Also, I vote to retitle this movie as Silence of the KICK TO THE FUCKING FACE. Not quite a Venoms flick, but it has at least one of those saintly gentlemen in it, so quality is assured.
Rated 14 Sep 2019
56
44th
There are two story lines that play parallel to each other here the first is about two bratty rich guys, this story is really dull and uninteresting and the other story line is about a deranged killer, this story is more interesting but with a title like "Human Lanterns" I was expecting more.
Rated 29 May 2017
58
49th
Wuxia with a dab of Texas Chainsaw Massacre? That just can't work, well, not as such. For all their production value, Shaw Brothers just aren't where you go for cutting-edge gore effects. Nor does the wire-fu really cut it if you're in it for the fights. Lastly, it all amounts to exploitation-level tastelessness. And yet I still found this awkward pastiche mysteriously mesmerizing. Maybe the superficial beauty of Shaw sets and costumes threw me off, but somehow, Human Lanterns hits the spot.
Rated 31 Dec 2016
70
22nd
A strange mixture of the Shaw's period action and gruesome horror. The two aren't necessarily intertwined as well as you would hope, but they dovetail into a final confrontation between the two main characters and the killer nicely. Sun's camera placement is interesting: often letting the action play out, naturally framed by objects in the foreground.

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Directed by:

Chung Sun

Screenwriter:

Chung Sun, Kuang Ni

Genres:

Action, Horror

AKA:

Ren pi deng long

Country:

Hong Kong

Language:

Mandarin

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