The Gweilo's Movie Ratings for Oily Maniac
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| Category | Rating |
| WTF Meter | 1.8 out of 5 |
| MST3K-Ability | 2 out of 5 |
| OVERALL QUALITY | 1.6 out of 5 |
| Chinese Movie | Oily Maniac |  |
| Director | Ho Meng Hua for the Shaw Brothers Studios | |
| Actors | Danny Lee, Chen Ping, Lily Li, Hua Lun, Wang Hsia | |
| Year | 1976 | |
| Format Viewed | VCD Shaw Brothers 100185 What is a VCD? |
This Chinese movie from the Shaw Brothers Studios is very much in the tradition of the goofy, random monster movies that proliferated in the second half of the twentieth century. This movie making strategy takes anything, anything at all, and makes it into a monster. The monsterfication of ordinary things was often done by making them extra big, or extra strong, or maybe “radioactive.” A reliable hallmark of this technique was ominous, dramatically building music, the slowly rising “dun, dun, dun, dun, DUN!” that we hear whenever the monstrous ant or lizard or shark or doll or janitor or dog or toddler was approaching its next victim.
