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Black Magic 2
Black Magic 2
Actors: Lung Ti, Ni Tien
Director: Meng Hua Ho
Genres: Indie & Art House, Horror
UR     2009     1hr 30min

In this mind-blowing sequel to the Shaw Brother's huge horror hit, it's Zombigeddon! Mysterious zombies run amok while baffled doctors try to find out why. The zombies vomit, melt, spontaneously combust, explode and may be...  more »

     
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Actors: Lung Ti, Ni Tien
Director: Meng Hua Ho
Genres: Indie & Art House, Horror
Sub-Genres: Indie & Art House, Horror
Studio: Tokyo Shock
Format: DVD - Color - Dubbed,Subtitled
DVD Release Date: 06/16/2009
Release Year: 2009
Run Time: 1hr 30min
Screens: Color
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaDVD Credits: 1
Total Copies: 0
Members Wishing: 3
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Languages: Mandarin Chinese, English, English
Subtitles: English

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Movie Reviews

One of the all time great Hong Kong horrors!
Brian T | Canada | 06/09/2009
(4 out of 5 stars)

"Heeding the presumable outcry for a followup after the success of the previous year's wild dark arts exploitationer BLACK MAGIC, director Ho Meng-hua, writer Ni Kuang and their mischievous horror elves not only come up with a more intricate story that repurposes most of the earlier film's leading players, they crank the freak-show dial way, WAY up.

More gore! More nudity! More zombies! More lesions, skin ulcers and blood worms! More lactation! A miscarriage! Wait a minute...ewwww! The opening credits haven't even rolled before a topless native girl is devoured by a fairly convincing crocodile, after which a frizzy-haired old wizard (Yeung Chi-hing) guts the beast to retreive a cherished bangle for her grieving family. Things get decidedly more outlandish from there as skeptical Hong Kong docs Ti Lung and Lam Wai-tiu take wives Tanny Tien Ni and Lily Li on vacation to what a title card informs us is "A Tropical City," where they run into all sorts of gooey Southeast Asian mysticism at the hands of suave sorcerer Lo Lieh.

From his basement lair, Lo whips female pubic hairs and breast milk into powerful zombie potions, controls his creations via giant metal spikes pounded into their heads (the removal of which expedites the decomposition process in Hammer-style dissolve-o-vision), and doesn't take kindly to city folk sniffin' around the rotting corpses of his victims. Not only does he turn Li into an walking husk after luring her from the group, he casts a love spell on both Ti's wife (Tien) and his colleague (Lam).

Shaken free of Lo's remote-controlled adultery by a rightfully perplexed Ti, Lam's subsequent race to rescue his own wife from Lo's clutches ends rather poorly for both of them, leaving Ti to seek out the services of wily old wizard Yeung, who helps him break Tien's spell by extracting live worms from the oozing sores on her back. After he loses a subsequent battle of the hex dolls with an agitated Lo, Yeung bequeaths his own eyeballs to the young hero, who's not a little nauseated that he has to eat them to gain the arcane powers needed to take on Lo and his battalion of druid-robed zombies.

The increased budget is not only evident in the quality and abundance of the movie's visceral special effects, including some fairly effective process work during the fiery finale, but also in soft, atmospheric lensing by Cho Wai-kei and an eerie, detail-rich production design by Chan Ging-sam that works as hard as the actors to play up the popular Hong Kong perception of Southeast Asian countries as literally crawling with all manner of evil and exotic threats. Definitely one of the all time great Hong Kong horror pictures, with a few bits of Yuen Cheung-yan's martial arts play thrown in for good measure----dig that kooky fight atop the gondola lift----and a flavorful music score by Frankie Chan Fan-kei."