After Vampire Circus I showed one of several recently bought Hong Kong blu rays, Righting Wrongs, This is about a vigilante prosecutor pursued by a hardass cop played by Cynthia Rothrock. It could have been a little tighter, and there are several endings available, but the fights were pretty good and that’s what it’s all about.
Several people hadn’t seen 1932’s Murder in the Rue Morgue, so that was next. Not a great film, not a great adaptation of the first detective story as written by Poe, but Lugosi is going to town and there’s a killer ape. The story dances around the idea that Lugosi is trying to mate women with the ape but you don’t have to squint much to read between the lines.
