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camwynAnd it's really not all that bad.
There are two things you need to bear in mind about this movie before watching it. First of all, it's a horror movie, and a fairly low-budget one at that. If you're looking for an action flick with supernaturaly creepitude you're gonna be disappointed, but if you're looking for something more along the lines of Evil Dead you'll be much happier. There's no 'tree rape' scene in this; instead they've got what Dr. Freex referred to as a 'murder muppet'. It's. . . um. This slimy little fetus-looking thing with fangs and claws and a tail, only we're not talking a fun waggly tail, oh no, we're talking about what happens when a lamia gets drunk and bangs a giant scorpion. It's one of two major Supernatural Menaces in this movie, the other one being a mummified skeletonish kind of thing with a limited shapeshifting ability and pretty good kung fu for someone who's been dead a couple hundred years. They're both at least partly tied into an Evil Villain who really does sound like he's saying 'hee hee hee hee hee!' when he laughs, which I consider creepier than the murder muppet.
The other thing to remember is that this isn't a Chow Yun-Fat movie. He's in it, but he's a secondary character. The star is Chin Siu Ho, who's been in a number of films - he's the attractive apprentice in Mr. Vampire, Jet Li's antagonist in Twin Warriors, and Jet Li's competition for Head of School after master dies in Fist of Legend. I gotta say he's kind of... um, bland. He reminds me of tofu. He does a good job of filling up the space they put him into, but I don't get a whole lot of sense of involvement off him in any of his screen roles. I always wind up either locking onto the secondary characters or the other main characters, as they're generally a bit more interesting. He's not all that bad as the star, but in the end I was more interested in Dick Wei's character Heh Lung, as well as Chow's character (who gets to use a rocket launcher! Yay!).
Overall it's not a bad movie at all, if you're in the mood for cheapie horror. And unlike some movies I could mention, the secondary characters generally have enough sense to bring in either backup or BIG BADA BOOM when they go somewhere dangerous. Granted, it's usually to save the main character's butt, but still. Worth renting if you run across it. I dunno that I'd bother tracking it down again, but worth renting if you run across it.
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There are two things you need to bear in mind about this movie before watching it. First of all, it's a horror movie, and a fairly low-budget one at that. If you're looking for an action flick with supernaturaly creepitude you're gonna be disappointed, but if you're looking for something more along the lines of Evil Dead you'll be much happier. There's no 'tree rape' scene in this; instead they've got what Dr. Freex referred to as a 'murder muppet'. It's. . . um. This slimy little fetus-looking thing with fangs and claws and a tail, only we're not talking a fun waggly tail, oh no, we're talking about what happens when a lamia gets drunk and bangs a giant scorpion. It's one of two major Supernatural Menaces in this movie, the other one being a mummified skeletonish kind of thing with a limited shapeshifting ability and pretty good kung fu for someone who's been dead a couple hundred years. They're both at least partly tied into an Evil Villain who really does sound like he's saying 'hee hee hee hee hee!' when he laughs, which I consider creepier than the murder muppet.
The other thing to remember is that this isn't a Chow Yun-Fat movie. He's in it, but he's a secondary character. The star is Chin Siu Ho, who's been in a number of films - he's the attractive apprentice in Mr. Vampire, Jet Li's antagonist in Twin Warriors, and Jet Li's competition for Head of School after master dies in Fist of Legend. I gotta say he's kind of... um, bland. He reminds me of tofu. He does a good job of filling up the space they put him into, but I don't get a whole lot of sense of involvement off him in any of his screen roles. I always wind up either locking onto the secondary characters or the other main characters, as they're generally a bit more interesting. He's not all that bad as the star, but in the end I was more interested in Dick Wei's character Heh Lung, as well as Chow's character (who gets to use a rocket launcher! Yay!).
Overall it's not a bad movie at all, if you're in the mood for cheapie horror. And unlike some movies I could mention, the secondary characters generally have enough sense to bring in either backup or BIG BADA BOOM when they go somewhere dangerous. Granted, it's usually to save the main character's butt, but still. Worth renting if you run across it. I dunno that I'd bother tracking it down again, but worth renting if you run across it.
Want a full review? http://www.stomptokyo.com/badmoviereport/7curse.html .
