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Kung Fu from Beyond the Grave

This is a movie about an evil priest (Chin-Lai-Sung) working with an evil guy named Kam (Lo Lieh) to perform some evil stuff. Kam’s ultimate goal is to become impervious to all weapons, which involves stealing the beating hearts of lovers entwined in rapture. Naturally this means he has to kill a lot of horny people. This includes killing the father of Chun, played by Billy Chong.

On the 7th month of the lunar calendar, ghost and spirits try to find a way to reincarnate. On that night, Chun (Billy Chong) sees his dead dad who was murdered by Kam. Chun must avenge his death against Kam’s evil priest and evil kung fu.

Billy Chong (No relation to Tommy Chong) is a very talented martial artist from Indonesia, who did well in the film industry. If you happen to come across a film with Billy Chong in it you are guaranteed some awesome fight scenes. He is still around and will be in the upcoming Garuda 7, which has been in production and slated for release since 2015.

I do love the evil priest, Chin-Lai Sung. He has perfected the sardonic smirk. Part of that is definitely some fight damage, but he wears it well. He acted in over 90 films, was a stuntman, and eventually directed movies. His influence, combined with Billy Chong meant that this film has some really great fight scenes. Enjoy! You get to see two masters at work.

You should have some libations in you by the 30 minute mark. A huge special effects fight scene starts there. The evil priest pulls a fat stack fake US bills out of his shirt, yells “Count Dracula come to my aid!” and he sets the bills on fire like he works for the government.  This action starts a stunning zombie black magic battle featuring Count Dracula, played by a completely random guy off of the street with no screen credit.

Yes, a random dude plays Count Dracula in this film. A cape wearing, scenery-chewing Count Dracula. I love that. For some of these films, the director would just come across a guy walking down the street, or the guy who works as an accountant who lives next door to the producer and say “Hey, you’d be a great Dracula!” Poof! An unknown amateur actor gets paid cash to work for a day. What a lark that must have been!

The spackle-based hopping dead makeup is great. Just shows you what can be done with remnants from Home Depot. And there are a lot of hopping dead, because Kam had to kill a lot of lovers to get those hearts. These particular hopping dead had little on-screen direction and hopped like bunnies instead of proper, stiff-armed Jiang-Shi.  It’s more adorable than scary in some scenes.

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Next week is a heartwarming message of love and peace during the holiday season:  The Hebrew Hammer. And maybe some other stuff to help clear relatives from the living room when you want some peace and quiet.

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