Tsui Hark is credited with giving Asian horror a much needed facelift. His 1983, breakthrough classic "Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain" demonstrated the effectiveness of his cinematic vision. He continued to build on his skills: writing, directing, and producing a wide variety of movies. Finally with "A Chinese Ghost Story", he was able to take Asian horror to a new level. His accomplishments have always been achieved through his visionary style and storylines, rather than with gore and monsters. In issue #133 of Fangoria, Hark stated, "Thillers and horror films take the daily life situation and enlarge them to the point where they are scary. So horror doesn't need monsters and hopping vampires. Besides, you create a monster, than another, and it hurts the genre." He also said in that same issues, that he was "interested in the cerebral aspects of horror".