Screw the Snyder Cut. Whatever drugs the Shaw Brothers had access to, release them to the rest of the world.
After being crippled in the ring, boxer Zhen Wei asks for his brother Zhen Xiong to avenge him, which will take finding the key necessary to release their family from a horrible curse.
Simple start, right?
Buckle up, because this is the kind of movie that will make your brain bleed. Seriously and without hyperbole, The Boxer's Omen is a phantasmagorical thrill ride into how much insanity one can pack into 105 minutes.
Sure, your movie may have a crocodile in it, but does it have a reanimated corpse that's been sewn into the mummified body of a dead crocodile? I don't think so.
Then, let's add in spiders drinking from people, demon bats, flying heads, goo, gore, gristle, black magic wizards, maggots, a sexy zombie, spiritual monk training montages, caterpillars, eels coming out of peoples' mouths, neon magic, vomit magic, intestines and more.
You know when people use silly terms like fever dream and madness to describe a movie? They are only dreaming of a movie like this, one that takes you on a life-changing journey and repeatedly makes you wonder exactly what the hell you're watching and just how they captured all of this on celluloid.
After making movies like this, Corpse Mania and Hex, director Kuei Chih-Hung quit the business, moved to America and started a pizza restaurant. He's sadly no longer with us, but I have no doubt that his pizza was a messy, greasy, gooey and delicious dish that was most definitely spiked with all manner of Taoist magic and the most potent LSD known to man and demon.
The world is a better place for this movie being in it.
After being crippled in the ring, boxer Zhen Wei asks for his brother Zhen Xiong to avenge him, which will take finding the key necessary to release their family from a horrible curse.
Simple start, right?
Buckle up, because this is the kind of movie that will make your brain bleed. Seriously and without hyperbole, The Boxer's Omen is a phantasmagorical thrill ride into how much insanity one can pack into 105 minutes.
Sure, your movie may have a crocodile in it, but does it have a reanimated corpse that's been sewn into the mummified body of a dead crocodile? I don't think so.
Then, let's add in spiders drinking from people, demon bats, flying heads, goo, gore, gristle, black magic wizards, maggots, a sexy zombie, spiritual monk training montages, caterpillars, eels coming out of peoples' mouths, neon magic, vomit magic, intestines and more.
You know when people use silly terms like fever dream and madness to describe a movie? They are only dreaming of a movie like this, one that takes you on a life-changing journey and repeatedly makes you wonder exactly what the hell you're watching and just how they captured all of this on celluloid.
After making movies like this, Corpse Mania and Hex, director Kuei Chih-Hung quit the business, moved to America and started a pizza restaurant. He's sadly no longer with us, but I have no doubt that his pizza was a messy, greasy, gooey and delicious dish that was most definitely spiked with all manner of Taoist magic and the most potent LSD known to man and demon.
The world is a better place for this movie being in it.