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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0601643074740
Format: AC-3, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Tai Seng
Manufacturer: Tai Seng
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Tai Seng
Release Date: January 09, 2001
Running Time: 81 minutes
Sales Rank: 23096
Studio: Tai Seng
Theatrical Release Date: 1986
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
A standout 'midnight movie' thrill-fest from Hong Kong circa 1986. Everything under the sun comes rushing at us at 90 miles an hour. It begins as a cop action film but quickly becomes a globetrotting supernatural adventure set in jungle Thailand. A traveling scientist witnesses a savage native ritual and receives an icky curse for his pains: he is forced to swallow a bolus of bloody goo that causes periodic cork-popping spurts of fluid from his limbs: the Zits from Hell. Splatterific production numbers include flying killer alien-baby monsters, a spinal-cord-eating walking skeleton (a.k.a. 'The Old Ancestor'), a huge stone-block Baby Press (don't ask), and a troupe of Ninja monks who fight on ropes dangling from a giant Buddha. Chow Yun-fat has a virtual cameo as the pipe-puffing occultist Wisely (the smarty-pants Peter Cushing figure), who offs the scariest monster with a handy rocket launcher. The original Chinese title, Dr. Yuen and Wisely, names the heroes of two long-running series of pulp novels by Ai Hong (a.k.a. Ni Kuang), who also wrote every other major kung fu movie of the 1970s, from One-Armed Swordsman to Fist of Fury. (The writer appears as himself in a framing cocktail party sequence, introducing his two heroes to each other.) There are several other Wisely films, including the glorious Legend of Wisely (with Sam Huim in the title role) and the lamentable Bury Me High. Director Lan Wei-tsang also helmed the much less satisfying Phoenix King and Saga of the Phoenix, with Yuen Biao. --David Chute
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - The craziest Adeventure/Horror/Kung Fu movie ever. Or maybe it is just the only one
Get ready for one of the most wild rides you will ever experience in your movie going life. Chin Siu-hou plays Dr. Yang and is reminded of his adventure he had a year ago. When traveling to Thailand to help with the cure for aids, Yang meets a beautiful mysterious woman and they develop a friendship in their 2 minute encounter. When Yang sees that she is about to be sacrified by a Sorcerer, he needs to jump into action. There is a great part where a tribe member says to the Chief Sorcerer that ... Read More
Rating:  - Earth shattering
"The Seventh Curse" is an utterly insane film. No other phrase so adequately describes the experience of watching this low budget Asian picture. I read a plot summary some time ago about the movie, thought it sounded interesting, and decided to give it a shot. Well, the summary totally failed to convey the depths of weirdness plumbed by the film. I thought I would be watching a straight horror movie, and that is true to some extent-"The Seventh Curse" does contain many elements of horror. But it also ... Read More
Rating:  - Extreme HK Gore and Gratuitous Chow Yun Fat
This is a disturbing film, with baby crushing, gut munching, worm spewing, and very little Chow Yun Fat. This is one in a series of films about Dr. Wei, sort of a Sherlock Holmes/Indiana Jones character who sets off on adventures around the world. This time, he discovers that on a past adventure, when he was the lone survivor of native ambush, he was cursed. Now to cure the curse, he returns to the scene of his crime and battles a gut munching alien fetus demon, the sorcerer/leader of a band of natives, ... Read More
Rating: - bizarre and gory
from the director of riki oh/story of ricky comes this twisted movie. Like a mix of Aliens, Raiders of the Lost Ark, a wild kung fu film, and the Evil Dead. Some cool gore scenes add to the mayhem, I've never seen a guy eaten alive by worms before, or a crazy witch doctor throw children into a giant stone press to squeeze the blood out of them, or a guy with a blood curse whose veins pop periodically and squirt blood. This one may be hard to follow, and seem like a strange dream after you watch it, but is worth ... Read More
Rating: - Chow Yun Fat visits Thailand to fight monsters and gore
THE SEVENTH CURSE (1986) is a supernatural thriller from Hong Kong about a doctor seeking to undo a blood curse that is due to kill him unless he returns to Thailand to confront the wizard who cursed him. The film offers lots of sorcery, monsters and imaginative gore effects. There are kung fu fights and shootouts as the hero and his large, diverse party battle dozens of blade-wielding Thais. There are subterranean caves in which the sorcerer and his pack of gruesome monsters dwell. The pace never flags in the film’s ... Read More
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