Vengeful Vampire, Mighty Peking Man and Super Kung Fu Fighters have a new home at the University of Toronto, thanks to a donation of some 400 films and trailers by TIFF programmer Colin Geddes.

The collection includes some 200 features from Hong Kong and Taiwan, reaching from the 1970s through the ’90s, and includes rare and early work of such notables as John Woo, Tsui Hark, Wong Kar-wai and Ringo Lam.

‘This is one of those collections that’s so unique, I don’t think you’re going to find anything like it in North America,’ said Brock Silversides, director of UofT’s Media Commons, an audio/visual lending library that collects movies, television shows, rare books and other material.

Geddes, who heads the Toronto festival’s Midnight Madness program, is well-known to local fans of Asian and cult movies. In the 1990s he ran a series of screenings around town spotlighting the then little-known talents of Woo, Tsui and leading man Chow Yun Fat, among others.

The Colin Geddes Collection includes other fantasy, crime and kung fu titles such as The Bride with White Hair 2, Carry on Yakuza, Morning Fog and Revenge of the Shaolin Kid — some of which were rescued from the garbage as movie houses in Toronto’s Chinatown went out of business.

‘I feel very strongly that the collection should stay in Toronto as every title seemed like an orphan sent far from home to be appreciated by our city’s audiences,’ said Geddes in a statement. ‘I am pleased to know that the archive in good hands at the University of Toronto and that many new generations of film students will be able to access and study these incredible films.’