Blu-ray release: ‘Shawscope Volume Four’

By   |  Dec 5, 2025

Arrow Video are bringing a collection of classic Shaw Brothers films, entitled ‘Shawscope Volume Four’, to US and UK Blu-ray on December 8/9, 2025.

As special effects-driven horror and sci-fi cinema dominated the global box office in the 1970s, Hong Kong’s mightiest film studio Shaw Brothers not only followed suit but took things one step beyond!

One of Shaws’ most beloved cult classics, Hua Shan’s tokusatsu tribute ‘The Super Inframan’ stars Danny Lee (‘The Killer’) as the titular high-kicking superhero, defending the planet against a demon queen and her legion of subterranean mutant minions. Lee also stars as a monster vigilante issuing vicious justice in Ho Meng-Hua’s creeptastic ‘Oily Maniac’ and as the prince granted magical powers in Pao Hsueh-Li’s fantastical wuxia ‘The Battle Wizard’. Director Ho next treats us to a double helping of occult mayhem with ‘Black Magic’ and its sequel, where Ti Lung battles wicked voodoo doctors with the power to cast spells and raise the dead. Four more doses of unhinged madness follow from Kuei Chih-Hung in the form of ‘Bewitched’ and the ‘Hex’ trilogy, an unforgettable quadruple serving of possession and witchcraft that presaged his notorious brain-melting classic ‘The Boxer’s Omen’.

Master filmmaker Chor Yuen adds a hefty dose of horror to his trademark wuxia-mystery style in ‘Bat Without Wings’, in which a young sword fighter must end a deranged martial arts master-turned-multiple murderer’s perverted rampage. Hua Shan returns with ‘Bloody Parrot’, an eye-poppingly vivid horror fantasy about two swordsmen hunting a demon that offers to grant wishes, only to leave a messy trail of destruction in its wake. Lau Kar-Wing’s kung fu jiangshi comedy ‘The Fake Ghost Catchers’ sees two conmen unwittingly enlisted to battle spirits from the underworld, while Tang Tak-Cheung’s hair-raising wuxia fantasia ‘Demon of the Lute’ has to be seen to be believed. ’s gruesome splatterfest ‘Seeding of a Ghost’ has a taxi driver enlist a necromancer’s help in avenging the murder of his wife, with sickening results; and Hua Shan returns with ‘Portrait in Crystal’, a deliriously imaginative tale of a murderous swordswoman brought to life through a crystal sculpture. Last but not least, ’s ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’ is an out-of-this-world comedy in which city girl Cherie Chung is abducted by aliens and taken to a galaxy far, far away…

Features:
• High Definition (1080p) presentations of all sixteen films
• Illustrated 60-page collectors’ book
• New artwork
• Hours of never-before-seen archival features
• Newly-produced bonus features
• Region: Free

‘Shawscope Volume Four’ is available to pre-order now from Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk.

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