Monsters to Die For: On Monster Hunt as an Ecological Fable

By Haiyan Lee The 2015 animated feature film Monster Hunt (Zhuoyao ji) is a popcorn caper served up by a mainland-Hong Kong coproduction team led by director Raman Hui who cleverly meld the nonsensical (moleitau) conventions of Hong Kong cinema with state-of-the-art CGI technologies. It also rehashes the well-worn Hollywood motif of a bumbling everyman … Continue reading Monsters to Die For: On Monster Hunt as an Ecological Fable →