After a girl was run over by the cab they were travelling in, Tin Kao
and Lala take her home and nurse her back to health. Of
course, they know nothing about the crocodile spell the girl is cursed
with and are frequently freaked out by her when she seems to change into a
crocodile, but they genuinely care for the girl and she soon opens up to
them ... and then she is kidnapped from their house by a mob of angry
villagers, and even though Tin Kao does his best to save her, he can't keep
the villagers from killing her. The Crocodile Master, who has put the
crocodile spell on the girl, learns that she has been killed, and thinking
Tin Kao is responsible for this, he puts a spell on him, which soon puts
him into hospital and makes him vomit lizards and the like. Tin Kao's
family and friends are looking for a cure, especially Lala, who is killed
by some crocodile magic for her efforts, but she finds a young mystic girl
who might be the key to everything. However, Tin Kao's mother does not
believe the mystic girl has any powers, so she hires an exorcist, who soon
enough duels the Crocodile Master with his faith being his weapon of
choice - and is almost torn apart by the Crocodile Master's crocodiles.
And in the end it's up to the mystic girl to not only save the exorcist
but also kill the Crocodile Master using her own crocodile powers and save Tin Kao from his curse ... Wild, crude and
trashy low budget mix of folk tale, animal horror and erotica, somewhere
along the lines of Centipede
Horror and Bruce Lee
in New Guinea from very roughly the same era - but while these
films were (unintentional) minor masterpieces of bad taste filmmaking, Crocodile
Evil is just a bad film with little in terms of redeeming values. And
while it's certainly not the worst film you have ever seen, not even the
worst piece of East Asian animal horror, that's not enough of a reason to
watch this one either. By the way, above credits are educated
guesswork at best, for which I could not find any confirmation in Western
sources. And since I don't read Chinese ...
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