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Kung Fu from Beyond the Grave
Hong Kong 1982
produced by Pao Ming for Eternal Film Company
directed by Lee Chiu
starring Billy Chong, Lo Lieh, Sung Chin-Lai, Alan Chui Chung San, Lai Chien-Hung, Fang Mien, Liu Shan (= Tseng Hsin-Yi), Hui Pei-yun, Ku Chun, Ouyang Sha-Fei, Chang Chung-Kuei, Su Kuo-Liang, Tsai Chung-Chiu, En-sheng Ma, Chang Chung-You
written by Lu Fung, music by Shing Chin-Yung, Shing Wei-Yeh, stunt coordinators: Alan Chui Chung San, Sung Chin-Lai
Dracula
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Martial artist Chun Sing (Billy Chong) is visited by his dead father
who tells him to avenge his death. And being a good son, he soon pays a
visit to his father's killer Kam Tai Fu (Lo Lieh), demanding for him to
admit his guilt, show Chun Sing where his father is buried, and commit
suicide. Of course Kam Tai Fu declines, and has Chun Sing fight against
his right hand man, a black magician (Sung Chin-Lai). Now Chun Sing's
talents are of course no match against black magic, so he makes a hasty
retreat - but fortunately he has only recently stumbled across and buried
a dead man with a black magic book hidden in his sword's shaft, so he
literally raises the dead in his attempts to defeat the black magician,
but to no avail, because the black magician has plenty of tricks up his
sleeve himself, which includes summoning Dracula at one point. And things
get particularly bad when the black magician gets his hands on Chun Sing's
book of spells.
But there's one question: Why does Kam Tai Fu have a black magician in
his employ? Well, he wants to be rendered invincible by black magic, and
that can only be done via blood from blood ripped out of people during
orgasm. So the black magician is always on the lookout for couples having
sex - and when Chun Sing learns that, he has friends pose as a couple to
lure the unsuspecting black magician into an ambush, where he and two
martial artist friends finish him off. And then Chun Sing goes after Kam
Tai Fu, who's by now almost invincible due to the black magician's
treatment, only his breasts are his Achilles' heel ...
Kung Fu from Beyond the Grave is pretty much what you
get when you combine martial arts and horror motives, shake them and hope
for the best. And the results are ... very much on the uneven side. While
the action is very well handled, the appliance of horror is almost
exclusively on the wacky side, and unintentionally so - this goes from the
sudden Dracula attack to the weirdly behaving undead and other horror
creatures to a rather weird use of menstrual blood in the finale. Now of
course, for all this it's easy to dismiss the movie as a coattail rider of
the then only recent success of Encounters
of the Spooky Kind (which in all honesty this film probably was),
but you can also just lean back and enjoy the movie for its inconherency
and its wackiness, because intended of not, it's a hoot for sure.
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