The Boxer's Omen (1983)

You won't be disappointed!

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

If you have never seen any black magic movie or want to see just one for the rest of your live then do me a favor watch The Boxer's Omen it will change your mind immediately.The location is beautiful and the set up for each fight between the force of good and evil is jaws-dropping awesome.With the amount of WTF-ness in The Boxer's Omen i think you need to shut your brain off completely to embracing all the goodness the movie can offer.It suck that the main guy is kind of ass when he disrespect people who save his life but a pre-Bloodsport Bolo Yeung is always good for my heart

Out of the handful of Hong Kong horrors I've watched, THE BOXER'S OMEN stands head and shoulders above the rest as the finest of its kind. Made with the packing of the Shaw Brothers studio, whose funds give this an expansive, colourful look that some of the low budget monstrosities lack, THE BOXER'S OMEN is a wild ride packed with special effects, violence, nudity and a simply insane plot covering the battle between good and evil. Forget the likes of ENCOUNTERS OF THE SPOOKY KIND: in its depiction of battling monks and evil wizards, this is a film that goes one step further (and usually beyond the boundaries of good taste).Things kick off – literally – with a kickboxing match not too dissimilar from the likes of KICKBOXER. The big, brutish bad guy is fan favourite Bolo Yeung, here perfecting his evil sneer with relish. The hero of the piece is Phillip Ko, another Hong Kong mainstay usually known for playing bad guys in various kung fu outings; it's refreshing to see him cast as the good guy for once. Although he initially goes to Thailand to seek vengeance, he soon becomes involved in another story entirely that turns out to loosely follow on from the one in BEWITCHED (the airport finale of that film is reprised here).Before you know it, Ko is regurgitating live eels, shaving his head and following the Buddhist preachings as he joins forces with a dead and decaying abbot who forever gives him spiritual guidance. He's going to need it, as he's up against some particularly nasty foes: evil wizards who vomit up their foodstuffs and cast all manner of spells that usually involve bringing to life some unpleasant creatures. These range from spiders and weird snail-like alien creatures to a human mummy, who's put inside a crocodile corpse and covered in all kinds of crap before finding reincarnation as an evil queen of black magic who possesses all kind of deadly powers. There's real-life animal slaughter, tons of offal flowing around the screen, frequent nudity, rotting bodies, worms and maggots and laser beam special effects that would have been the best of its day. In fact many of the gruesome effects are still impressive today thanks to the sheer hard work that's gone into their creation.There are bizarre highlights here, from the flying severed wizard head attacking our hero (clearly influenced by the likes of Indonesian horror fare such as MYSTICS IN BALI) to the extended, good-vs-evil battle of the climax. It's not a film for the squeamish, certainly, as most of the stuff going on here is designed to make you bring up your lunch, but if you can handle the pace then you're in for a treat: this is one of the most creative, no-holds-barred black magic horror films ever made!

A shady Chinese boxer gets caught up in a web of fate, buddhism and black magic when he's in Thailand to avenge his brother who was crippled in a dirty fight with a thai boxer. It turns out in a past life he was the twin brother of a enlightened buddhist monk, who is now preserved in a state between life and death after being poison-spelled by a powerful black magician who wanted to stop him to reach full enlightenment and eternal life. Only the power of Buddah stops the semi-dead monk's body from decomposing, and since their fates are linked from previous lives, when the monk finally decomposes the boxer will die too... a horrible, messy death! So the boxer has to become a taoist monk and beat the black magician to break the poisonous spell and save his life and the eternal life of his ex-twin brother (are you confused yet?). But the black magician has a few cards up his sleeve too... or rather decks and decks of 'em to! The final battle between good and evil that takes place is in an inferno of laser beams, crocodile carcasses, weird magic, maggots, bats, magic relics, devouring of disgusting foods, adult baby birth, monk chanting, puke eating, monsters etc. etc. etc... You could go on and on and on!At the risk of sounding like a fashion-blogger: GAH! OMG! I can't believe I haven't seen this before! All I can say is do believe the hype because this is an amazing slice of HK black magic-weirdness. And best of all it's not only "so weird it's good" like movies like Devil Fetus or Wolf Devil Woman, it's actually a really good, original, well-crafted weird film with good actors, production values, lots and lots of imaginative effects and impressive trippy cinematography... visually it looks nothing else! All the actors work fine but extra credit goes to the guy who played the black magician (he's sort of like an though-to-be harmless, half-crazy old hobo who gets sudden outbursts of extreme anger) - best voodoo-style screen black magician ever! Genius! Not a guy I would let anywhere near a chicken farm though... A question: Did HK producers hire their cast at the geek section at their local freak show or was it considered a normal thing to eat maggots, kill animals and puke live barracudas (!) in Hong Kong movies? Even though I didn't find it scary (a little bit disgusting maybe) I had WILD nightmares about witches and black magic all night tonight. I even woke up at five in the morning scared as hell, decided it was too good to miss and fell right back to sleep. It was like the film's sweetness continued in my dreams.Sorry catholicism, paganism, old school (pre-LaVey) satanism & Jewish mysticism - close but no cigar, buddhism is now the coolest religion on the block. An absolute must-see!

Yeah! This movie is totally awesome! The special effects are really great. Well, some of the puppets were a little cheesy, but I can truly appreciate the fact that it was done without entirely editing everything you see on a blue or green screen the way Hollywood seems to do with all its computer graphics stuff these days. That gets all too similar after a while. The old stuff that requires lots of food dye and corn starch rocks my world.Any movie with exposed nipples is sure to be a hit. I thought this movie had a great spooky atmosphere at times. It really took me back to the old days. I see maybe some of the same elements from movies like Zu: Warriors of the Magic Mountain, Close Encounters of the Spooky Kind 1 and 2, Evil Dead, The Exorcist, and a little bit of Kickboxer thrown in for good measure. (That's the one with the brother, Van Damne?, who gets revenge against the Thai boxer that hospitalized his buddy.)Sure, some of the effects look cheesy, but the footage of real people counters that and makes a very unique balance between the all too real world of the Buddhist monks and villagers and the fantastical realm of the dark voodoo spells that require fuzzy puppets. If it were up to me I would give this picture an Academy Award just for having the most burning bat puppets on screen at the same time. Honestly the bat puppets are rather cute and that's an adjective I'd prefer never to mention but perhaps it could give you some more ideas about wanting to see this movie if you haven't. Definitely a classic. In my opinion, Boxer's Curse aka Mo, is way better than Ju-On and the Grudge type of ghost stories that are all too common these days and unimaginative.The elephant was an especially nice surprise. Hooray for elephants and their grand majesty!