The Crippled Masters Blu-ray
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Posted November 13, 2025 06:51 PM by Webmaster
Severin Films is preparing a Blu-ray release of The Crippled Masters (1979). The release is scheduled to arrive on the market during Black Friday.
More than four decades ago, "one of the strangest and most shocking martial arts movies ever witnessed" (DVD Talk) drove 42nd Street audiences into a stunned frenzy. Today it remains an "amazing" (Severed Cinema), "genuinely jaw-dropping" (High Def Digest) "undisputed masterpiece" (Grindhouse Database), and is officially licensed on disc in North America for the first time: When a cruel crime boss chops off the arms of a peasant (Sung-Chuan Shen aka Frankie Shum, who was born with Thalidomide Syndrome) and acid-dissolves the lower limbs of a henchman (Chao-Ming Kang aka Jackie Conn, born with small, deformed legs), the two disabled men train under a mysterious master to combine themselves into one unstoppable fighting machine and battle their way to vengeance. Chung Chien Li (THE GUY WITH THE SECRET KUNG FU) and Chen Mu-Chuan (THE IRON MONKEY) co-star in "the FREAKS of martial arts cinema" (1000 Misspent Hours) directed by Chi Lo aka Joe Law (THE DRAGON LIVES AGAIN), newly scanned in 4K from the interpositive with 3 hours of revealing Special Features produced exclusively for this release.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
More than four decades ago, "one of the strangest and most shocking martial arts movies ever witnessed" (DVD Talk) drove 42nd Street audiences into a stunned frenzy. Today it remains an "amazing" (Severed Cinema), "genuinely jaw-dropping" (High Def Digest) "undisputed masterpiece" (Grindhouse Database), and is officially licensed on disc in North America for the first time: When a cruel crime boss chops off the arms of a peasant (Sung-Chuan Shen aka Frankie Shum, who was born with Thalidomide Syndrome) and acid-dissolves the lower limbs of a henchman (Chao-Ming Kang aka Jackie Conn, born with small, deformed legs), the two disabled men train under a mysterious master to combine themselves into one unstoppable fighting machine and battle their way to vengeance. Chung Chien Li (THE GUY WITH THE SECRET KUNG FU) and Chen Mu-Chuan (THE IRON MONKEY) co-star in "the FREAKS of martial arts cinema" (1000 Misspent Hours) directed by Chi Lo aka Joe Law (THE DRAGON LIVES AGAIN), newly scanned in 4K from the interpositive with 3 hours of revealing Special Features produced exclusively for this release.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION FROM AN INTERPOSITIVE
- MANDARIN AND ENGLISH AUDIO TRACKS
- Audio Commentary With Frank Djeng, Co-Producer Of ENTER THE CLONES OF BRUCE
- Audio Essay By Cult Cinema Critic Lovely Jon
- Unleashing The Legends: The Godfathers Of Kung Fu Distribution – Interview With Temple Of Schlock's Chris Poggiali
- Original Trailer
- New Line Cinema U.S. Trailer
- Subtitles: English SDH, English
- REGION-FREE
