Product Description

From the director of Killer Snakes comes a horror classic!

After suffering an injury in the ring, embattled boxer Zhen Wei enlists the aid of his brother, Zhen Xiong, to avenge him and find the key to an omen which may release their family from an ancient curse. Black wizards, Taoist monks, rampaging monsters, spooky apparitions, beastly crocodile skeletons, flying human heads, a sexy female zombie with long talons, and demonic bats lie in store for our hero, whose trials form one of the most outrageous, horrific, dazzling spectacles in action-horror history. You've never seen anything like it!

Starring martial arts masters Bolo Yeung (Enter the Dragon, 5 Fingers of Death, Heroic Ones and Lung Wei Wang (Invincible Pole Fighter, Master of the Flying Guillotine)!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #42203 in DVD
• Brand: Image Entertainment
• Released on: 2006-11-21
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: Color, Dolby, DVD, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: Cantonese
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .25 pounds
• Running time: 99 minutes

Features

• From the director of Killer Snakes comes a horroric! After suffering an injury in the ring, embattled boxer Zhen Wei enlists the aid of his brother, Zhen Xiong, to avenge him and find the key to an omen which may release their family from an ancient curse. Black wizards, Taoist monks, rampaging monsters, spooky apparitions, beastly crocodile skeletons, flying human heads, a sexy female zombie w

Customer Reviews

Uncut Nearly Lost Classic.....
This Shaw Bros Horror film simply must be seen to be believe. It's not a martial arts film, but there are a few fight scenes with Bolo. The movie showcases gruesome black magic duels instead of kung fu action. Fans of surreal horror(The Beyond, The Viy, Evil Dead 2) will be pleased. There's all sorts of attacking spiders, monster bats, alligator monsters, flying heads and a demon woman. The effects will be laughable to some but the sheer crazed enthusiasm of them won me over. There is also quite a bit of gore, slime and real creepy crawlies. An eel is puked up in one scene. The Image dvd looks great and comes with a booklet detailing the history of the film.

Fantastically nuts
There are movies that are entertaining for no other reason than that you just can't believe what you're watching on the screen. The Boxer's Omen is a phantasmagoria of grossness, questionable special effects, gawdy visuals and Buddhism that is so exuberantly bizarre I couldn't wait to see what would happen next. Part of the movie is a kickboxing revenge story, which is the only part of The Boxer's Omen that isn't insane, but the rest of it deals with the wildly hallucinatory conflict between Buddhists and practitioners of the dark arts.

The special effects are audaciously bad at times, particularly those involving animals. I swear that the bats and spiders in one part looked like plush toys, or something similar. For any of you who have seen The Beyond and marvelled at how fake the spiders looked in that movie, the ones in The Boxer's Omen are even more ridiculous. The special effects in this movie would surely bring the quality down a notch if the overall style wasn't so over the top. There is so much fantastic absurdity to behold that it's difficult to be distracted by any one thing.

The black magic in this movie is the source for most of the grossness. Whenever one of the dark priests casts a spell, they usually chew up all sorts of nasty things and spit them out, somtimes repeatedly. There's also one part where they slice open an alligator, toss its guts out on the floor and then stuff a corpse inside in order to raise it from the dead. I just watched Jungle Holocaust where an alligator gets sliced open and has its innards strewn about, so I think I've had enough of that sort of thing for a while.

Because this movie exists almost entirely in the realm of the supernatural, it doesn't always make very much sense. The protagonists are Buddhists, so maybe possessing knowledge about the religion will put some of the occurences in this film into perspective. Otherwise, the viewer can only go along for the ride and throw reason to the wind. I guess it is best classified as fantasy/horror with a small amount of martial arts thrown in. There's also a little T&A, for those so inclined.

If you have a difficult time suspending disbelief or like movies that make sense, you probably shouldn't watch this. I'd also recommend avoiding it if you find rampant, garish blood and gore disagreeable. Otherwise, it's worth experiencing at least once for the mindboggling weirdness alone.

GREAT FUN!
Excellent DVD of a great cult film. And don't worry about the language the previous review mentions. Considering the reviewer is from France, it's unlikely they've even seen this release to make a judgement on the quality of the disc, which is the best this film has ever seen in any form. No matter, by this time, Shaw Brothers Studios were dubbing and releasing their films in Cantonese and Mandarin in theaters at the same time. Considering there's at least three or more languages spoken in the film, the studio had their own dubbers, who usually were not the stars of the film anyway. So there's no "correct" soundtrack for this film, no matter what the "experts" will tell you. It won't affect you're enjoyment of the movie in any way.