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Holy
virgin VS the evil dead
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Country
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Hong
Kong |
| Year: |
1990 |
| Genre: |
Horror,
action |
| Format: |
VCD |
| Running
Time: |
1h
28m |
| Distributor: |
Winson
Entertainment |
| Date
reviewed: |
10/05/03
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| Producer: |
Leung
Ching |
| Director: |
Wong
Jan Yeung |
Cast: Donnie Yen, Pauline Yeung
Bo Ling, Sibelle Hu, Ken Lo, Ben Lam Gwok Bun |
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Story:
Donnie Yen is a teacher. When taking an all girl group
on a school trip, the moon suddenly turns red, and a
lunatic with green glowing eyes turns up and starts
ripping the clothes and jugulars from the students.
He is knocked unconscious, and when he awakes, is suspected
of the murder of his students. He starts to investigate
the murders himself, and is led to Cambodia, where a
cult is doing nasty things to nice girls.
Review: xAround the early 90’s, Hong
Kong made a hell of a lot of Cat III movies. Most
of them were, of course, crap, but some stuck their
head above the filth, and actually managed to be quite
entertaining. ‘Holy Virgin Vs. The Evil Dead’
is one such movie, and those who enjoyed ‘The
Seventh Curse’, and ‘Eternal Evil of Asia’
will find similarly guilty pleasures here
xDonnie Yen doesn’t make a habit of displaying
his impressive martial arts in Cat III movies, but
it’s certainly a novelty to see a film that
features Donnie Yen and boobies. However, this is
relatively tame stuff considering it’s contemporaries,
and the certificate is only really warranted by some
basic neck biting and brief flashes of cleavage.
x‘Holy Virgin vs. The Evil Dead’ is
certainly an attention grabbing title, but unfortunately
isn’t exactly accurate. This movies isn’t
an unofficial cash-in on Sam Raimi’s ‘Evil
Dead’ movies, and has nothing in common with
it, literally or thematically. Instead, the bad guys
are a Cambodian cult who kidnap and/or kill young
women. They are ‘evil’, though.
xAs for the ‘Holy Virgin’, it’s
the lovely Pauline Yeung, who (virgin or not) plays
the magical princess of the good tribe. Her character
would have warranted a movie to herself – she’s
like an exotic version of ‘Princess Leia’,
except she uses a magical whip-thingy instead of a
light saber.
xThe low budget still manages to fund some silly
fun, and there are a few competent (but hardly ground-breaking)
kung fu fights throughout. There are naked girls,
murders, an evil man-chick with one boob and a moustache,
and a double whammy of Donnie and Pauline. ‘Holy
Virgin vs. The Evil Dead’ is a fun, but forgettable
Cat III horror kung fu fantasy that is worth seeing,
but just the once. |
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VCD
[ NTSC , Region free
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Letterbox widescreen. Burnt in Chinese and English subtitles,
Cantonese and Mandarin audio.
It’s
a VCD, ok? This means that the quality is dubious.
To select audio track, one has to mute either the
Left or Right Audio channels. It’s the only
version of this movie out there on disc, but there
are video tape versions out there which are usually
transferred from this very VCD. As with many VCD releases
we review on KFCC, the world deserves a nice DVD release.
Reviewed
by Russ Houghton
You
can purchase this DVD at : 
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| Story |
Cast |
Entertainment |
Subtitles |
Overall |
| 3 |
3 |
3 |
2.5 |
3 |
VCD
scan courtesy of Mark Merril (aka infecta)
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