Like the later Mighty Morphin Power Rangers shows, it's shrill and very repetitive, but it's done with high spirits, and so it's hard to dislike it too much. If you liked Danny Lee as a matinee idol in Mighty Peking Man, he does something similar here, and I enjoyed that a lot. That said, I would rather watch the other Hua Shan films again before I revisit Super Inframan. If I recall right, it predates the selling off of a significant portion of the Shaw Bros backlot, but you'd never know it because the film is so soundstage-bound. I guess my feeling on the movie is neutral, edging towards vaguely fond of it. But I would be much more excited to see a mid-range title in a genre I felt Shaws did really well. Heroes of Sung comes to mind, or The Black Tavern or The Lady Professional (I think some of these have been released in those Shout Factory boxes anyway).TechnicolorAcid wrote: Fri Sep 26, 2025 1:39 am Do you have any thoughts on Infra-Man? It’s probably the title I’m most interested in but I want to know if lives up to the hype or not before I check it out.
I forgot about House of 72 Tenants. That would be a great part of a contemporary set. The more I think about it, the more I'm disappointed this set wasn't like half horror and half musicals, or something kind of interesting. They could have leaned on the supernatural opera films, like Enchanting Shadow and Madame White Snake, and there could have been an interesting creative and intellectual line drawn between the films of the one genre and of the other. Were I making the choices, I would have gladly forgone Bewitched, the Hex films, Super Inframan, and Battle Wizard in order to include some of the supernatural opera pictures, and some of the other quirky supernatural stuff over the years, like the Cheng Pei-Pei movie Dragon Swamp.
