[Tai Seng VHS, USA]
[click scan for bigger size]This must undoubtedly be one of the most rare Asian films and video tapes!
WITCH WITH FLYING HEAD isn't available ANYWHERE!!! There are no DVDs, no video-cd's, no laserdiscs, nothing but the faint memory of some very few long lost video releases. This is actually the only release that I'm aware of but a few years back I got some third hand hearsay info that there might have been a Vietnamese video release at some point. In any case, none of them had English subtitles I don't think and I'm not aware of any fan subbed versions.
And before you ask: No, I don't own this tape. I would sure love to! The scan comes courtesy of Jean-Claude Michel from Cinehound forum. And he doesn't own it either but was lucky to get a friend who owned it to make him a scan just before he himself sold it off again. Who knows where in the world this copy is now!? A while back I asked Pete Tombs of Mondo Macabro if this where a film they would consider for release and he said they'd love to but they couldn't find neither a print nor the copyright owners!!! O_O
So for now I'm certainly holding on to my dvd-r bootleg that looks like it was sourced from a 3'rd or 4'th generation video tape.
The film's entry on Hong Kong Movie Data Base.
Hi,
ReplyDeleteJust came across your site. I am now selling WITCH WITH THE FLYING HEAD on ebay. Tai Seng original tape:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/271032718754?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649#ht_500wt_1288
Hi there,
ReplyDeleteThat's very cool, thanks for the info, mate.
But it seems you're ONLY selling to buyers in the US!! Argh. (i.e. no, I'm not in the US but across a big water!)
When I was ion college, I acquired a bootleg VHS copy. One of my friends knew Cantonese (but was illiterate in it--her father taught only the boys to read and write it), and I played part of it when she called me, and she thought it sounded Vietnamese. It was later suggested to me that it might be in Thai. We know a Thai version existed at one point because the poster Toombs shows in his book is in Thai.
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