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American Hemorrhage Dictionary of Scikungfi
D. Harlan Wilson


Hi-def digital pastiche of screaming mouths from Hong Kong action flix (emphasis on Bruce Lee, Sonny Chiba, Kwan Tak Hing and Siu-Lung Leung) interspersed with bits of costumed derring-do and henshin (trans. from Japanese “to change or transform the body”) wuxia sequences. The last shot belongs to Inframan (1975; tagline: “The Man Beyond Bionics”) in which protagonist Rayma/Inframan (actor Danny Lee a.k.a. Li Hsiu Hsien) metamorphoses into a daikaiju and performs a tomoe-nage judo throw on an orange, daikaiju-sized Tarantula Man (actor unknown), then hits him with a flying double-punch, then tosses him into an energy plant. The Tarantula Man shrinks. Begin credits. Before we fade out to black, the scene returns and Inframan steps on the Tarantula Man with a giant white boot. Ketchup and mustard spurt from the creature’s flattened corpse.


D. Harlan Wilson is a good man. This microcriticism originally appeared as a chapter in Codename Prague (Raw Dog Screaming Press 2011), the second installment in his scikungfi trilogy. Wilson exists online at www.dharlanwilson.com and dharlanwilson.blogspot.com.