Martial Movie Massacre VIII: The Beginning

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The annual Martial Movie Massacre event continues with this
spotlight on 1980s US martial arts movies, the films that shaped
the landscape for what I watched during my early training
days.  Using 1988 as our spotlight year and a stand alone
comic-strip, we will look into the major changes that took place
in the low budget world of US martial arts movies and the four
icons that shaped the following decade. 

The 1970s martial arts movie scene had been largely dominated by
the Kung Fu genre, mainly imported from Hong Kong. Enter the
Dragon, released in 1973, was the first Hollywood Asian martial
arts movie and should have paved the way, but instead a huge void
was left by the tragic death of Bruce Lee. It was only in the
late '70s that some independent film-makers in the west believed
they could change the face of western action movies by infusing
them with a richer variety of fight choreography.  

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