Fluentiama
Perfect cast and a good story
Bea Swanson
This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.
Dana
An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.
phanthinga
Most of my life grew up watching Hong Kong movie,they really know how to mix martial arts with other genre like comedy,horror that gave us many classics movie like:Mr Vampire,A Chinese Ghost Story..... the list go on and went i found out the director of Riki Oh(probably the most goriest and crazies kung fu movie ever) Ngai Choi Lam has made a horror comedy before that called:The Seventh Curse with Chow Yun Fat( my personal favorite Hong Kong actor ever) so i really excited to check it out and I'm kinda disappointed right now.Don't get the wrong idea i still appreciated for what it is: a dumb,silly over the top black magic movie mix with Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom plus a ton of gore, kung fu fight scene featuring fake monks and a funny plastic skeleton called Old Ancestor soon later turned into a ridiculous winged monster(that totally look like a man in suit) fighting a small baby looking monster.If they keep the level of bizarre like this i would not having any problem but the things is the whole movie feel so rush and fast pacing that some scene in the movie just magically end without any explanation which make me very upset because i thought i was watching the cut version of the movie so i check the IMDb and found out it actually the run time of the movie: 1h 18min can your guys believe it ?
Paul Magne Haakonsen
Anyone familiar with the Hong Kong movies from the mid- to late-eighties will know exactly what they are getting into here with "The Seventh Curse" ("Yuan Zhen-Xia Yu Wei Si-Li) from 1986.This is a typical action movie from that period of time, where Hong Kong cinema also blended into elements of comedy and, of course, martial arts into just every movie. As is the case with "The Seventh Curse" as well.The movie is rather enjoyable on several accounts though, although my main reason for watching it was because of Maggie Cheung and Chow Yun Fat. But aside from them, then the movie is actually a fun and good action comedy with a hint of supernatural thriller as well. Lots of action, a fast pace and a good story.The story in "The Seventh Curse" is about Yuan Chen (played by Siu-hou Chin) who has been stricken with a deadly Thai blood curse, a curse that will claim his life in a matter of days. In order to lift the curse, a special seed must be found and consumed. But the path to salvation in Thailand is filled with peril in the form of a wicked sorcerer, an undead ancestor and a tribe working to keep foreigners away from their sacred temple.For a movie from 1986, then I will say that the effects were actually quite good. Of course, by todays standards then they are fairly bad to look at and anything but dazzling. But I found the effects to be good enough, and the undead ancestral skeleton was actually quite cool. Wooden in his movement, sure, but cool in concept and appearance. And as cool as the skeletal ancestor was, just as equally bad was the strange 'ghost' creature that looked sort of a mutated hybrid of an infant and a scorpion. It was so badly made and so bad to look at that it was actually funny.One thing I did wonder about was why all Thai people in Thailand (or at least the ones in the movie) were speaking Cantonese and not native Thai. That was just odd. Perhaps a choice made back in the day to cater the movie for a Hong Kong audience and not have them reading subtitles. Perhaps it worked good enough back in 1986, but today not so much."The Seventh Curse" is good entertainment if you enjoy these cheesy mid- to late-eighties Hong Kong movies. I did enjoy the movie and am rating it a 6 out of 10 stars.
movieman_kev
A cup who's been infected with a blood curse due to his interfering in a tribe's ritual has to go back to Thailand for a permanent cure. A snotty, spoiled female reporter tags along as well. I had fun with this movie. Martial arts, sorcery, demons, lots of blood, and some nudity what more can one ask for? However, keep in mind that Director Ngai Kai Lam's films are an acquired taste. I personally loved "Story of Ricky" and "Erotic Ghost Story", and while this isn't nearly as good as those two. It's better then "The Cat" and is a fun way to kill an hour and a half.My Grade: B- DVD Extras: Theatrical Trailer; Trailers for "Wo zai hei she hui de ri zi" (Triads the inside story), "Jiang hu long hu men" (flaming Brothers), "Ba xing bao xi" (Eighth Happiness) and "Qi yuan" (Witch from Nepal) Eye Candy: Sau-Lai Tsui enters the film in a wet white see-thru number and shows everything and wow she's hot, oh and a few extras are topless fleetingly
DJ Inferno
This Eastern movie has it all: Indiana Jones-like action, martial arts-performances, naked chicks, splatter, gore and monsters which look like if they were taken from an old Godzilla-movie. Don´t take this flick too serious in any way, folks! It´s the purest stupidity but great fun to watch! John Woo-star Chow Yun Fat is in, but his role is small and not very important for the film. Just another movie to laugh your head off! Highly recommended for your next trash video party!!!
