Three knucklehead bank robbers get a goofy wizard to bring some dead bodies back to life. They want to use the zombies for their next score and the only guy standing in their way is Billy Chong (from A Fist Full of Talons). After a Kung Fu battle, Chong kills the ringleader. His restless spirit then gets the wizard to help him get revenge on Chong. The wizard puts the bank robber’s soul into a new body, unaware that the corpse he chose is that of Chong’s recently deceased father.
Kung Fu Zombie isn’t your typical zombie movie. Instead, what we have is the Asian version of zombies. That means the zombies hop around like Mr. Vampire. They are also beholden to the same rules as the Asian vampires too. (The zombies can be stopped by placing prayers on their forehead.) The look of the zombies is pretty cool though. They resemble the zombies from Zombie… if they were made up with Play-Doh, that is. And speaking of vampires, there’s also a vampire assassin in the mix too who is pretty badass.
The comedy is really broad and full of slapstick. Some of it is funny (like when the wizard tries to rob a corpse). Most of it isn’t (like the fast-motion scenes). The scenes of Chong fighting the Kung Fu Zombie are pretty cool, but the film would’ve been a lot tighter if the comic relief was kept to a minimum (although the scene where the invisible zombie gropes a chick was pretty funny). And while some of the effects are awful, they’re still good for a laugh nevertheless. (Like when the invisible ghost wears a hat; and it’s just a hat on a string.)
Body Count: 7 Dead Bodies. 8 Undead Bodies.
Bad Dubbing Meter: It’s subtitled, but the print is badly cropped, so sometimes the subtitles are cut off on both sides.
Notable Kung Fu Styles: None.
Quotable Dialogue: None.
Final Thought: Kung Fu Zombie is not as bad as it could’ve been, but it’s not nearly as good as I was hoping.
AKA: Zombie 9.
The next Kung Fu-A-Palooza movie will be: The Snake Strikes Back.
Source:
http://thevideovacuum.livejournal.com/1394506.html
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