Product Details

• Actors: Gordon Liu
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC
• Language: Mandarin Chinese, English
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Tai Seng Video Marketing
• DVD Release Date: May 17, 2005
• Run Time: 94 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0007XG3T2
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #206,956 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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SHAOLIN VS EVIL DEAD - DVD Movie

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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Promising film but......., April 15, 2005

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Revenant Magazine "Revenant: The Zombie Magazine" (A zombie infested world) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shaolin Vs Evil Dead (DVD)

This has all you might expect from a mystical Hong Kong kung fu movie: hopping vampires, big name stars who have the skills to pull off all the spectacular moves you'd expect in a film like this, humour (both earthy and slapstick), good CGI, well done makeup and special effects, romance, weirdness and yes the much hyped exploding zombie midget (granted I have seen far better exploding zombies but I don't think many people have seen an exploding zombie midget so perhaps I don't have anything to compare it with). The film builds, with effective changes of pace, towards an impressive grand finale and then ends.

Abruptly.

And then while you are looking to see if there is a secret button on your DVD remote labelled "play me the rest of the goddamn movie!!!" the credits roll.

And to add insult to injury alongside the credits we get silent snippets of the rest of the movie!!

And that all looks better than anything we have yet seen!!!!!!

So what is going on? Well the helpful folks at the US distributors (Tai Seng) have explained it to me. Apparently the producer's plan is to release the film in two parts in the same way Kill Bill was. However, it just doesn't really work as a standalone film (the first part is good but not that good) and just stopping the film half way through with no warning or explanation is quite frankly bizarre and ruins the whole thing.

So what do we recommend? Its tricky as this film does feel like it was shaping up to be a great movie but the ending is so frustrating I worry that it might have spoiled the whole thing for me. So with hindsight I'd much rather have waited for the second half and then watched them both in one (presumably three hour) sitting and probably had a great time but if I'd read a review here advising this would I have taken its advice? I can't say but thats what I'd recommend you do and even if you don't follow the advice at least forewarned is forearmed. ;)

Marks out of 5? Impossible to say really - we'll really only know when the second one comes out. I've given it a 3 because it has lots of promise but......

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Emperor - Revenant Magazine co-founder/editor

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Evil Shaolin vs. Dead Taoist, January 4, 2010

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Bartok Kinski "A casual stroll through the lu... (Prague) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shaolin Vs Evil Dead (DVD)

I recommend tossing this one. While the movie had all the kung-fu Shaolin bald monks, outlandish Vampires, zombie spirits, and horror schlock, it just couldn't seem to get exciting. Not once did it ever. It's either an incomprehensible DVD or an irritating, inappropriately titled Taoist kung-fu movie.

This movie has no plot, no character development, and really no sense of direction or focus at all. It is a D-Movie plain and simple.

It's like they just stopped shooting the ending.

It was certainly disappointing.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars It was OK., May 18, 2005

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Frank Dagostino "frankie_godskin" (Long Island, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Shaolin Vs Evil Dead (DVD)

Well, this was definitely a kids' movie. It starts out great, and within the first 10 minutes there's a "Lost Boys Chinese food" homage and an attack by dozens of undead that is fought off with Kung Fu and magic.

After that, there's a love story, a bunch of arguing between two brothers, and a lot of silly humor. There's nothing scary here and the director cuts too quickly in the fight scenes. My 10-year-old son loved the movie, but it didn't hold my interest at all. I much preferred Ong Bak and Shaolin Soccer to this.

Also, the ending is jarring and kills any momentum the movie had. The sequel might make this better, but it doesn't hold up on its own.