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Hello and welcome to Weird House Cinema Rewind.

My name is Joe McCormick.

Today we're running an older episode of Weird House Cinema.

This was originally published November 17th, 2023, and it is about the 1979 Hong Kong

Wusha film, The Butterfly Murders.

Ooh, this was a good one.

Hope you enjoy.

Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio.

Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is Rob Lamb.

And I am Joe McCormick. And today's pick on Weird House is the genre-defying 1979 Hong Kong martial arts bonanza, the butterfly murders, directed by Shehawk. This movie is great.

It has everything.

It's part Wusha.

It's part eco-horror.

I didn't expect it to be so much like frogs and other eco-horror movies we've done.

It's part murder mystery, but it's also all killer butterflies.

That's right. This one's a real tree. It's almost like a butterflies. That's right.

This one's a real treat.

It's almost like a fitting pre- Thanksgiving dinner kind of a film because it's just

stuff to the gills.

As we'll discuss, no doubt, this is perhaps a sense, too, of like, talented filmmakers'

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