The Hindi cinema scene, colloquially known as Bollywood, is typically remembered for light-hearted romantic musicals, historical melodramas (which are also often musicals), and thinly-disguised remakes of Hollywood hits. In truth, the region is among history’s most prolific movie machines and its output encompasses more or less every genre under the sun.

Lam Nai-Choi, sometimes credited as Simon Lam, began his career as a cinematographer and shot films for Shaw Bros., including Sun Chung’s The Avenging Eagle (1978) and The Kung Fu Instructor (1979). Soon after, he relocated to rival studio Golden Harvest, where he directed some of the most unhinged films of the early Cat. III era. His masterpiece is probably the demented Indiana Jones meets Mr. Vampire meets Evil Dead extravaganza The Seventh Curse (1986), based on prolific S

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