This Week In Sleaze 73: The Holy Virgin Versus The Evil Dead

About this episode

The episode covers the film The Holy Virgin vs the Evil Dead, exploring its unique blend of genres and the director's transition into Category III cinema.

A title so fantastic, we had no choice but to cover it. In The Holy Virgin vs the Evil Dead (1991), martial arts director Tony Lou—who’d already jumped from wild Wuxia epics to girls-with-guns carnage—takes the Category III plunge and ends up in bed with Donnie Yen (not literally, but you get the idea). It’s […]

Topics covered

• film
• history
• reviews

Keywords

• The Holy Virgin vs the Evil Dead
• Tony Lou
• martial arts
• Category III
• Donnie Yen

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Holy Virgin vs the Evil Dead

Places: Wuxia

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