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A mad journey into the mind of the depraved!

A mad journey into the mind of the depraved!
Recommended for devolved primates only!

Saturday, June 2, 2018

THE BOXER'S OMEN (1983)


 In addition to being the weirdest of the Shaw Brothers studios films this one has also got to be the grossest of all their horror output. Scenes of evil wizard-typers chowing down on animal intestines and slime-covered tentacles of various sizes abound. Most disturbing to me was either the part where one baddie chomps on various disgusting offal then spits it out and has his buddy eat it or the bit where a Satan-loving magician vomits up some crap and re-eats it himself. The plot here starts out with the great Bolo Yeung in his usual role as a muscle-bound badass bully, in this case a Thai boxer who kicks the crap out of our main character's brother leaving him a crippled mess for the rest of the movie. Then it becomes a revenge-flick but it quickly takes a strange detour into black magic territory when a deceased Buddhist priest contacts our hero. From there it's a laundry list of insane images and quite colorful pseudo-religious insanity. Zombie bat puppets are revived from the dead, a real chicken is decapitated to revive some alligator skulls, an large eel is vomited up outta nowhere, little dinosaur skeletons with eyes instead of heads are created, spider use straws to drink some colorful magic goop, a super fake rubber alligator is used as a maggot-filled incubator to create a witchy woman and lots of stuff that's pretty hard to even describe occurs. In the same vein as the earlier BLACK MAGIC movies but the crazy is turned up to 11 in this one. It really needs to be seen to be believed.
 This was released as BLACK MAGIC 4 in America at some point.

 

2 comments:

  1. This one looks seriously f-ed up. Gotta find it.

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    1. One of the most fucked-up things I've seen in a while!

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