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Abra Pabst
The Seventh Curse is a 1986 Hong Kong adventure horror film directed by Lam Ngai Kai based on Ni Kuang's novel series Dr. Yuen Series and stars Chin Siu-ho as Dr. Yuen. The film also stars Chow Yun-fat as Wisely, the protagonist in Ni's Wisely Series who appears as a supporting character in the Dr Yuen Series, while Ni himself serves as the film's narrator and also making a brief appearance as himself.
Dr. Yuen attempts to rescue a beautiful girl from being sacrificed to the "Worm Tribe" she belongs to. Yuen is damned with seven "Blood Curses" which burst through his leg periodically. He will die when the seventh bursts, but Bachu, the girl he saved, stops the curse with an antidote. The antidote only lasts one year, so on the advice of Wisely he heads back to Thailand to find a permanent cure. Yuen and his allies battle the evil sorcerer of the Worm Tribe, a hideous bloodthirsty baby-like creature, and "Old Ancestor," a skeleton with glowing blue eyes that transforms into a monster.
A pulp output for a very pulpy series, featuring the exploits of a doctor/philanthropist/novelist/adventurer whose main activity is visiting thrilling locations and solving mysteries with a science-fictional or supernatural element.
Indeed, if probably James Bond was the main spark that lit the fuse of the Wisely/Wesley novels, there is ample evidence that the stories soon slid into Doc Savage territory, and there remained for something like forty years.
And why should we complain, if we get the opportunity to see Chow Yun Fat playing the Hong Kong version of Doc Savage?
Seems pretty straightforward, right?
But where the brief synopsis stops, madness begins.
The movie opens with Ni Kuang himself, hanging out in swanky digs surrounded by beautiful women (as we action/pulp writers normally do, you see) that actually asks Wisely (Chow Yun Fat) and Dr Yuen (Chin Siu-ho) to tell about one of their adventures.
So in what is at least technically a flashback, we get
And here we get a flashback within the flashback, and we learn that Dr Yuen, while on a research trip in Thailand, tried to save a beautiful young woman from being sacrificed to an ancient evil (which of course is the decent thing to do), thus causing destruction, mayhem, the death of a lot of innocent people and getting himself cursed.
At this point the whole party decides to go back to Thailand and solve the problem.
And here I better stop, and just mention worm parasites, bloodthirsty cultists, a bad guy that actually squeezes children in a press to get the components for his spells, a kung fu fighting animated skeleton, and a lot of explosions and fights and random (but fun) destruction.
The whole, in 81 minutes.
When Dr. Yuen attempts to rescue a girl about to be sacrificed by the Worm Tribe in the middle of a jungle in Thailand, he is damned with seven 'blood curses' and must return there to find a permanent cure.
Chin Siu-ho Maggie Cheung Man-Yuk Dick Wei Chui Sau-Lai Elvis Tsui Kam-Kong Chow Yun-fat Sibelle Hu Ni Kuang Chor Yuen Fairlie Ruth Kordick Ken Boyle Wong Jing Yasuaki Kurata Hsu Shu-Yuan Kara Wai Ying-Hung Wong Yu Derek Yee Tung-Sing Johnny Wang Lung-Wei Kei-Yan Lam Shirley Ng Wong Lai-Ying Elsie Chan Nina Li Chi Joyce Godenzi Anders Nelsson Wong Chi-Ming
A Temple of Doom/Alien/Predator/Rambo Hong Kong sugar-rush with about 1000% more mysticism and loony fantastical visions. Includes a fight with a demon baby and an ancient skeleton spirit. Built for me.
I was really sadden when i realise that Kuato from Total Recall (before becoming the leader of the Mars Rebellion and redeemed himself), had previously been the sorcerer of the evil Worm Tribe, with his weird sex curses... Mind you, it may explain why in Total Recall Kuato hung out in brothels and the "Mars Mutation"!
GAH this film rules. I love movies that never let up for the whole film. This is horror, comedy, action, witchcraft, blood and gore.... all in a tight 78 minutes that feels even shorter. The special effects are super fun and I laughed at this a lot. Finding movies like The Seventh Curse is one of the main reasons I do scavenger hunts.
Timelord Thoughts.
I have seen some crazy films in my time but 'The Seventh Curse' is up there as one of the weirdest movies I've ever watched, it's like a batshit bonkers Hong Kong R'rated version of Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom merged together with Big Trouble In Little China & features a early appearance from the legendary Chow Yun-fat in a small role as the egmatic Wisely.
Recently I saw a completely crazy Chinese adventure film from the Eighties (starring Chow Yun-Fat and Maggie Cheung, no less) and the above certainly applies here. Think of an Indiana Jones film with martial arts, nudity, excessive gore and no sensibilities whatsoever. Or sense, for that matter.
So this week I present seven reasons to love Ngai Kai Lam's "Yuan Zhen-Xia yu Wei Si-Li", better known as "The Seventh Curse"!
As an an answer to the renewed popularity for American old-style adventure movies in the Eighties (a trend which started with "Raiders of the Lost Ark"), Hong-Kong produced a few of these on their own, adding their typical frantic style and disregard for a regular narrative. Three of these films had the character Wisely in them, a contemporary adventurer-hero from a series of stories by writer Ni Kuang.
Funnily enough Wisely was played by different actors in each of the films. The second of these was "The Seventh Curse", released in 1985, and this time the Wisely role went to (ta-ta-TAAAA) Chow Yun-Fat. Director was Lam Ngai-Kai who would later go on to make similarly barmy but entertaining movies like "Erotic Ghost Story" and of course "Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky".
Told as a huge flashback by writer Ni Kuang himself, "The Seventh Curse" tells about the tale of dashing doctor Yuen (played by Chin Siu-Hou) who suddenly develops a most curious disease: every day, a blood vessel somewhere in his body start to bulge and burst. His friend Wisely recognizes this as a particularly vicious Thai blood curse.
In what must be the biggest flashback-within-a-flashback in history (even beating "D-War" in this regard) Yuen then recounts how he indeed visited Thailand a year earlier with a group of scientists to find a cure against AIDS. Instead, his group encountered a tribe of Chinese people living in the Thai jungle who worshipped a vampiric mummy of sorts called "Ancient Ancestor". Yuen also had a chance encounter with local bathing beauty Betsy (a VERY healthy-looking Tsui Sau-Lai). When Betsy was about to get offered to "Ancient Ancestor", Yuen got a bit too dashing and rescued her, resulting in the whole research team being tortured and killed by the tribe's evil high priest Aquala (played by squeeky-voiced Elvis Tsui). Only Betsy and Yuen escaped but got cursed by Aquala, although Betsy managed to block Yuen's curse for a year.
Now that year has passed, and Yuen and Wisely must go to Thailand in a hurry and try to revoke the curse somehow. For on the seventh day, Yuen's largest blood vessel will explode and kill him. They are followed by Wisely's niece Tsai-Hung (Maggie Cheung!), a tenacious reporter who thinks she's found the scoop of the year.
OK, so far so good, seems like a valid story for some good old aventuring, right? But in the hands of Lam Ngai-Kai things tend to get weird fast. Everybody is acting hysterically, and most of the deaths are directly attributable to the heroes themselves without them ever being held accountable for it. The film is unabashedly sexist and exploitative wherever given the chance. The plot rushes from setpiece to setpiece without any sense or logic, and even Michael Bay will marvel at the liberties the filmmakers have taken for themselves here.
All in all it's impossible to say that "The Seventh Curse" is even close to being a good movie, but it's also impossible to deny its value as a crazy rollercoaster ride. Parts of it will be surprisingly well-made. Utterly daft and superfluous fight sequences are choreographed with flair, creature effects are a lot better than expected and completely practical in nature.
The "Ancient Ancestor" worshiped by the tribe is one mean bastard. Creeping from his coffin as a skeleton with glowing eyes, his bad condition doesn't stop him from going full fisticuffs against anyone who opposes him. The moment people start to realize that (superstrength or not) "Ancient Ancestor" is actually lightweight enough to toss a safe distance away, he starts to play dirty.
Using an extended transformation sequence (strangely reminiscent of "An American Werewolf in London", believe it or not), the skeleton turns into a monster which looks like a bastard child between a flying dinosaur and Giger's famous "Alien" design. This creature is capable of surviving staggering amounts of damage, including being shot full in the chest with a rocket launcher (see gallery).
Because of his high giggle Aquala is about the least frightening villain in the world despite the incredibly EVIL things he does. He has a vile bag of tricks including an ointment that turns you into a bag of squirming maggots in seconds, but his most impressive magic is the conjuring of the "Little Ghost". This hideous razortoothed flying baby eats his way right through whoever he's been sicked on, upping the gore factor considerably.
Fan-service Shman-service: even my wife could laugh at this joke of a scene. Truth be told, if there is one woman in the movie who you'd want to see naked it's Tsui Sau-Lai. She looks nothing less than glorious here, and Lam Ngai-Kai made optimal use of the scenery. He might not have gotten away with a full frontal nudity shot, but Betsy's slow-motion emergence from the lake, clad in nothing but a flimsy white shirt (and obviously bottomless) would probably get her banned for a couple of years these days...
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