There’s quite a lot been said and written about Jean Rollin’s The Sidewalks of Bangkok and there are just as many opinions about it. Some favour it because it, for Rollin standards, holds a pretty fast and furious beat to it. Others feel that it’s a bastard child which sticks out to much compared to his more reserved and sombre poetic works.

Supposedly Rollin wrote the script to The Sidewalks of Bangkok in three days with the intention of making a movie that paid homage to good old cliffhanger serials and MGM’s 1932 classic The Mask of Fu Manchu with Boris Karloff in the lead role. And if th... read the rest.