The Seventh Curse
(1986)
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The Seventh Curse
(1986)
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Yun-Fat Chow | ... |
Wei
(as Chow Yun Fat)
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Siu-Ho Chin | ... |
Dr. Yuan Chen-Hsieh
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Maggie Cheung | ... | ||
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Ken Boyle | ... | |
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Hung Chen |
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Bing-Chuen Cheung |
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Yuen Chor | ... | |
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Joyce Godenzi |
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Shu-Yuan Hsu |
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Sibelle Hu | ... | |
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Kara Hui | ... | |
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Hsin Nan Hung |
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Farlie Ruth Kordica |
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Yasuaki Kurata | ... | |
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Chi Tai Lam |
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A young heroic cop in the jungle of Thailand attempts to rescue a beautiful girl from being sacrificed to the "Worm Tribe" she belongs to. As a result, the cop is damned with seven "Blood Curses" which burst through his leg periodically. When the seventh bursts, he will die, but Betsy, the beauty he saved stops the curse with an antidote that lasts only one year, so on the advice of Wisely (Chow yun Fat) he heads back to Thailand to find a permanent cure. Action ensues as the cop and cohorts 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 that is a cross between Rodan and Alien. Written by Chris rutkowski <rcd1215@mail.purduenc.edu>
The special effects in "The Seventh Curse" are incredible. Particularly memorable are those nasty little demons that look like deformed babies; they fly at you and eat you up in about 5 seconds, like piranhas. But the rest of the film is just frantic, mindless drivel. The filmmakers throw in everything but the kitchen sink (from an irrelevant hostage situation at the beginning to karate-chopping monks), hoping that the pieces will somehow fit together - they don't. I never cared about anyone or anything in this film, except for the adorable Maggie Cheung, and even she is too loud at times. Chow Yun-Fat fans will be disappointed with his very minor part, but at least they will be rewarded at the end, when he shows why he is the epitome of "cool": all the other characters waste their time trying to fight the huge unstoppable bloodthirsty flying "Alien"-like monster, but he enters the scene and simply.....I don't want to spoil it, see for yourself. (**)