sentences:  Lam’s last film to date is "The Cat" (1992), an hallucinatory mixture of action, horror, comedy and science fiction.Combining low-brow comedy with elements of action, adventure and even horror, Lam Ngai Kai’s films starting with "Ghost Snatchers" are a prime example of Hong Kong cinema as an cinema of attractions as described by film scholar Tom Gunning and further examined in film studies all over the world.Gunning’s analysis sees the main principle of early cinema as “exhibitionist confrontation rather than diegetic absorption” and can be expanded not just to experimental cinema but also to certain trends in commercial cinema.