Metrograph

Hop on the Jack Burton Pork Chop Express! Long before the rest of Hollywood got hip to the effervescent action cinema coming from Hong Kong, Carpenter was just about the only guy in The Biz attuned to the vibrations coming across the Pacific—as is abundantly evidenced in this rambunctious cult classic, which finds San Francisco Chinatown local Dennis Dun and gweilo out-of-towner buddy Kurt Russell descending into the city’s catacombs to take on supernatural overlord Lo Pan (James Hong).