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American-style gorefests like The Texas Chain Saw Massacre<\/em> were glaringly absent from 1980s Hong Kong cinema, which is why The Island<\/em> (1985) was such a brutal outlier.<\/p>\n With the film now getting a new Blu-ray release from Eureka Entertainment, we spoke to film historian Frank Djeng, who provided the commentary, about this unique slasher.<\/p>\n The Island<\/em><\/strong> unspools like an American slasher film<\/strong> \u2013 Hong Kong directors rarely worked in that genre, did they?<\/strong><\/p>\n Also, this is a kind of horror with folk-style touches, and that\u2019s not something that you ever see much of in Hong Kong. It\u2019s a rare type of movie.<\/p>\n Category III films, which appeared a few years later, always mixed genres, combining porny sex with horror, for instance. But this is a straightforward slasher film.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.scmp.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" American-style gorefests like The Texas Chain Saw Massacre were glaringly absent from 1980s Hong Kong cinema, which is why The Island (1985) was such a brutal outlier. Directed by Leong Po-chih (Hong Kong 1941), the film sees a teacher (played by John Sham Kin-fun) take a group of students on a field trip to a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2143612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[409296,409292,409295,310801,409291,409294,409297,409290,409293,409289,402668,409298],"class_list":["post-2143611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-db-films","tag-deliverance","tag-frank-djeng","tag-hong-kong","tag-john-sham","tag-john-sham-kin-fun","tag-lamma-island","tag-leong-po-chih","tag-the-hills-have-eyes","tag-the-island","tag-the-texas-chain-saw-massacre","tag-tung-ping-chau"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Revisiting-1985-horror-gem-The-Island-Hong-Kong-cinemas-attempt.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2143611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2143613,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143611\/revisions\/2143613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2143612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2143611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2143611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2143611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}