Among circles of Hong Kong horror film fans, this has been a well loved object of desire for a long time. It ranks up there with Black Magic, Hex and Boxer's Omen in the sentimental thoughts of these fans. I was wondering why for the first 20 minutes of the film as it largely consisted of some fine slo-mo nudity and sex but nothing we haven't seen before in the Shaw's exploitation films. But then beginning with a really nasty rape and murder scene it begins to percolate - some action - more action -  then black magic enters the picture and the worms start coming out of people's mouths, a woman is possessed, Taoist priests fight back against the evil, a head is under a serving tray, food turns into blood, a desiccated rotting corpse needs sex. All fun but then the coup de grâce smacks us in the face and it is holy shit time in a final ten minutes of gore and insanity. I was laughing at just how wonderfully freaky it was. I wish the whole movie had been as trashy as that ending. Still it is a good time - as I said a plethora of nudity, revenge, blood and guts and people getting what is coming to them and those who didn't getting it as well.


Irene (the often unclad and lovely Maria Yuen Chi-Wai) is a card dealer at a casino and one of the customers Fong (Norman Tsui) seduces her with big tips and a line of smooth patter. They have an affair but she is married to a cab driver Tung (Phillip Ko) and Fong is married as well to the often unclad Wai Ka-man. She wants him to divorce her and after they fight she gets out of the car on a lonely road at night - always a bad idea  - calls her husband to come get her but before he does she is chased and raped by two men. And killed. Her husband tries to revenge himself with his fists but when that doesn't work he goes to the neighborhood black magic wizard and has him start dealing in spells. First we have to dig up your wife's body - then rub oil on it - then give it blood - then kiss it - it would be a great practical joke to pull on someone - but this isn't one. Bad things begin happening to all concerned - and the wife of Fong is suddenly pregnant and you know where that is going or maybe you don't.



This is directed by Richard Yeung Kuen, who has nothing else really of note on his filmography. A couple Country Bumpkin films for Shaw and then a load of films I have never heard of. So where this bit of madness came from is a mystery. Much of it is not well-directed - scenes cut off too quickly - clumsy transitions from scene to scene - but the fights are well staged, the rape is horrific and I could kiss that final scene. Adding to my pleasure in that final scene is seeing the veteran actress Ou-Yang Sha-Fei among the guests gasping in horror and blood - she was one of the Shaw's go to actresses as a mother in loads of films and seeing her here just nailed it for me.