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The Category 3 label on Hong Kong films can be somewhat of a poisoned chalice for some films, with the rating alienating the films audience with expectations of graphic violence or pornographic scenes. A lot of the films categorised as Category 3 are deserving of this status, but there are some that can be considered worthwhile and others than can truly be called classics, that transcend their exploitation roots and deliver excellent entertainment. Films like Ringo Lam’s School on Fire (1988), Kirk Wong’s Crime Story (1993) or Billy Tang’s Run and Kill (1993) fit into this category, unfairly looked down upon even though they all rise above their rating. The Category 3 rating was implemented in 1988, with the Hong Kong government’s introduction of a...

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Villains have always been and will always be some of the most fascinating and memorable characters in the world of genre film. Here we will take a look at the greatest villains of cinema from the 1990’s.

The criteria for this article is the same as in my previous articles Cinema’s Greatest Villains: The 1970’s and Cinema’s Greatest Villains: The 1980’s: the villains must be from live-action films-no animated features-and must pose some type of direct of indirect lethal threat. The villains can either be individuals or small groups that act as one unit.

The villains must be human or human in appearance. Also, individuals that are the central protagonists/antiheroes of their respective films were excluded.

Brad Dourif as The Gemini Killer in The Exorcist III (William Peter Blatty, 1990): Veteran actor Dourif is intense and unforgettable as an executed murderer inhabiting someone else’s body in...