House of Traps
House of Traps is a 1982 Shaw Brothers film directed by Chang Cheh, starring the Venom Mob. The story is based on the 19thcentury novel The Seven Heroes and Five Gallants.
House of Traps was previously considered one of the rarest Venom films, as it was only available on poor VHS and VCD formats. However, House of Traps was remastered and released on DVDSeptember 2008 by Image Entertainment 1. The DVD includes the original Mandarin language soundtrack with subtitles, as well as an Englishdubbed soundtrack. The DVD is from the Shaw Brothers Collection series, which is distributed under the Celestial Pictures banner of Image Entertainment.Despite the DVD release, the film falls under WTO regulations for fairuse and free distribution. Celestials release is approximatelyminutes shorter than the VHS and VCD versions, as many of the most damaged frames were cut entirely. The Celestial version of the film, under Chinese law, is materially different enough to be classified as a new work and is copyrighted as such. Only a handful of VHS originals are known to exist, and the only known original form reel version of the film is owned by Jackson Wu of Osaka, Japan. In an article regarding the film in Film Asia magazine, November, 2005, it was implied that he would not sell the film, as it is damaged to the point that it could not be restored in full. ........
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