Hong Kong genre films from the 1990s often explored themes of ordinary people confronting uncontrollable, seemingly irrational evil, a trend linked to the handover of Hong Kong to China.

“To be fair, it's also a a very a very prominent thing in a lot of genre cinema in Hong Kong back in the day in around the '90s because of the, you know, regular people facing evils that are kind of just no no reasoning. They're just [ __ ] evil. Uh, and it mostly stems because of the handover of Hon”

Category 3 is a necessary classification system in Hong Kong that was introduced to manage movies becoming increasingly violent and sexual.

“So, uh, category 3 is a system that they had to introduce because because movies were getting really [ __ ] insanely violent and sexual and also they were showing a lot of tri like the of the Chinese triads in movies.”