Other Titles • Seventh Curse (1986) • Yuan Zhen-Xia yu Wei Si-Li • Dr. Yuen and Wisely (1986) • The Seventh Curse (1986) • Doctor Yuen And Wisely
Synopses for Seventh Curse (1986)
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A standout "midnight movie" thrill-fest from Hong Kong circa 1986. Everything under the sun comes rushing at us at 90 miles an hour. It begins as a cop action film but quickly becomes a globetrotting supernatural adventure set in jungle Thailand. A traveling scientist witnesses a savage native ritual and receives an icky curse for his pains: he is forced to swallow a bolus of bloody goo that causes periodic cork-popping spurts of fluid from his limbs: the Zits from Hell. Splatterific production numbers include flying killer alien-baby monsters, a spinal-cord-eating walking skeleton (a.k.a. "The Old Ancestor"), a huge stone-block Baby Press (don't ask), and a troupe of Ninja monks who fight on ropes dangling from a giant Buddha. Chow Yun-fat has a virtual cameo as the pipe-puffing occultist Wisely (the smarty-pants Peter Cushing figure), who offs the scariest monster with a handy rocket launcher. The original Chinese title, Dr. Yuen and Wisely, names the heroes of two long-running series of pulp novels by Ai Hong (a.k.a. Ni Kuang), who also wrote every other major kung fu movie of the 1970s, from One-Armed Swordsman to Fist of Fury. (The writer appears as himself in a framing cocktail party sequence, introducing his two heroes to each other.) There are several other Wisely films, including the glorious Legend of Wisely (with Sam Huim in the title role) and the lamentable Bury Me High. Director Lan Wei-tsang also helmed the much less satisfying Phoenix King and Saga of the Phoenix, with Yuen Biao. --David Chute
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Yuen Cheng-ha saves Bachu from being sacrificed by the wicked priest in Thailand, but is stricken with seven blood curses. Soon, Yuen's veins start to burst. Wales Lee sends Yuen, Magggie and Bachu's boyfriend back to find Buddha's eye, which can cure Yuen. The wicked priest has directed the blood demon to attack Yuen and his friends. Wales Lee comes up with the weapons to destroy their wicked enemies. Peace and love return to a troubled land.
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