Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

Listonixio Fresh and Exciting

Murphy Howard I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

poe426 If, like myself, you grew up in darkened theaters watching kung fu classics like THE Chinese PROFESSIONALS (which starred Wang Yu as a one-armed "boxer" and featured a long-haired, fanged fellow known as "the Kung Fu Beast"), or even if you were just fortunate enough to catch some of these monsterpieces of cable television over the years, you'll find in SHAOLIN VS. THE EVIL DEAD some familiar types. For starters, there are the infamous "hopping vampires" of Chinese lore. Throw in a venerable shaman and two sidekicks (so to speak) and you've got all the ingredients for some supernatural kung fu fun. (My favorite part has to be the scene where the boy, uh, "gives birth" to his supernatural son in the outdoor outhouse...) The only real gripe I have with this one is the abrupt ending: the movie ends, quite literally, in the middle of a scene. The clips that run during the closing credits suggest a series of movies have been made... but at no other time during the proceedings are we even aware of this. Other than that, a fun film.

Masta_Ruthless Okay here is a movie where you wonder, what was the producer and director thinking. Gordon Liu is a superb actor, and Terry Fan is nothing short of great himself. I was going with the flow of this movie for the fact of the conditions the actors had to work in. The action was okay and the special effects where pretty decent. Even though this movie wasn't Grade A, I felt that it was okay.........................................................................That is until I saw the ending credits!!!!! What in the blue hell were the people thinking about. The 3min credit scene had action better than the whole movie, I mean awesome special effects and fighting. To find out that they were only test shots was a serious kick to the balls of every kung fu movie fan out there. I give this movie a 7. The credits gets a 9.1. If you get this movie and watch it, please by all means anticipate the ending credits.

TorgoTron Ah, where to begin.... As another reviewer stated, this movie has a lot of promise. I mean, Kung Fu vs. Zombies, how could you go wrong? Suffice to say, this movie goes very, VERY wrong but in a completely different direction than I had anticipated.I thought I was in for your standard cheesy kung fu flick with some zombie action thrown in. What I got was an incoherent (but admittedly well-shot and choreographed) mishmash of scenes that seem to have no real connection to one another, ambling along until it just.... ends. It's hard to sum everything up, but here we go.Gordon Liu is REEALLY hamming it up as a Taoist priest who seems to spend his time walking around town followed by a pack of hopping (yes, HOPPING, like a bunny rabbit) vampires under his control. He's accompanied by his bumbling (but well-meaning) assistant and the token annoying kid. They're periodically attacked by "zombies," who really just kind of grab you and shake you around, not eat your brains or anything. Liu's "occupation" as it were seems to be to bring the souls of the zombies to reincarnation.However, there's also an evil priest in town who just wants to destroy the zombies. Dressed in sparkly black attire and with an anime "bad guy" haircut, I think they wanted to say "menacing" but this dude comes off more as just a shade of "fruity." Such a fine line.... Anyway, periodically Gordon Liu and the Evil Priest meet up every once in a while, gesticulating kung-fu action moves and casting "spells" at each other with names like "ten storms attack master go!!" and whatnot. All in all, the fight scenes have the tone of bottom-of-the-barrel anime such as Dragonball Z or Pokemon.Anyway, before the credits roll you will see (SPLOILERS, but if you really care you need to be sterilized):** Gordon Liu using the "urine of a virgin" in order to protect himself from zombies (who knew?)** The evil priest demanding all the "virgin boys" of a village in order to turn them into his brainwashed slaves** The annoying kid (who's a boy) accidentally "eat" a spirit, become "pregnant" and then "give birth" (don't ask how) to another pasty-faced kid in an outhouseAll this and more! Seriously though, it was the best laugh I've had in a long time. The only reason it gets a 2 and not a 1 is because, for some reason, all of the camera-work, choreography and technical details are remarkably good. Never before has such a well-shot movie coincided with such a COMPLETE lack of anything resembling continuity. It's as if they took a Hong Kong filming crew, and told them "zombies! Kung Fu! just wing it..." The result? Shaolin vs. Evil Dead.

wierzbowskisteedman Minor spoiler. But really, don't bother with this. To start, I have to point out that this film contains various factors that, once added up, SHOULD result in a masterpiece:Shaolin Monks (including Gordon Liu, which is better), an attractive Asian lady and zombies.The thing is, no film should contain irritating children, inappropriate slapstick humour and HOPPING ZOMBIES. This film had so much potential and blew it; the early fight scene in the tea house suggests the film has promise; but for every five seconds of Gordon Liu smacking a zombie up, you have a minute of his blood-boilingly irritating child sidekick running around screaming. It's all downhill from there, wasting twenty minutes on an ill handled romance, and all the fight scenes seem to steer clear of actual blood and guts, and just consist of Liu sticking what appear to be his dry cleaning receipts on the foreheads of zombies. Plus, an irritating MALE kid GIVING BIRTH to an equally irritating MALE kid covered in shaving foam is NOT OKAY. By the time the end arrives, you've been sat waiting for a massive kung fu zombie fight for so long you feel like beating up a pensioner if the last ten minutes don't deliver. They don't. The big bad zombie leader warrior thing looks like a Chinese rip off of Bruce Campbell's Evil Ash (which it is), and to add insult to injury, the film ends abruptly, but not only that, over the credits outtakes play from what appears to be the massive kung fu zombie fight you were waiting for!!! Why?? Was the film unfinished or something?This film should be avoided, by kung fu fans, by George Romero fans, by Gordon Liu fans, even Army of Darkness fans, which seemed to be the type of style it was aiming for. Oh, and a note to American dubbers; Feug Shui is NOT pronounced "Fung Shooey" and Buddhist monks don't not say "Jesus!" when they get angry!