![]() ![]() The decline was rooted in various political, economic, and social factors. Once celebrated for its strong cultural identity and dynamism, the Hong Kong film industry’s popularity has declined since its prime in the 1980s and the early 1990s. But then the industry underwent a loss of influence and creativity: ![]() Although recorded in the Cantonese language, Hong Kong’s horror films-may of which were produced by the legendary Shaw Brothers Studio, which was a Chinese equivalent of Warner Brothers-proved to be popular throughout the Chinese-speaking world (which mostly speaks Mandarin rather than Cantonese) and the entire Continent of Asia. ![]() The Golden Age of Hong Kong horror films lasted roughly from the early 1970s until 1997, when the British ceded control of Hong Kong to the People’s Republic of China. ![]()
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