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Martial artist Chun Sing (Billy Chong) is visited by his dead father who tells him to avenge his death. And being a good son, he soon pays a visit to his father's killer Kam Tai Fu (Lo Lieh), demanding for him to admit his guilt, show Chun Sing where his father is buried, and commit suicide. Of course Kam Tai Fu declines, and has Chun Sing fight against his right hand man, a black magician (Sung Chin-Lai). Now Chun Sing's talents are of course no match against black magic, so he makes a hasty retreat - but fortunately he has only recently stumbled across and buried a dead man with a black magic book hidden in his sword's shaft, so he literally raises the dead in his attempts to defeat the black magician, but to no avail, because the black magician has plenty of tricks up his sleeve himself, which includes summoning Dracula at one point. And things get particularly bad when the black magician gets his hands on Chun Sing's book of spells.

But there's one question: Why does Kam Tai Fu have a black magician in his employ? Well, he wants to be rendered invincible by black magic, and that can only be done via blood from blood ripped out of people during orgasm. So the black magician is always on the lookout for couples having sex - and when Chun Sing learns that, he has friends pose as a couple to lure the unsuspecting black magician into an ambush, where he and two martial artist friends finish him off. And then Chun Sing goes after Kam Tai Fu, who's by now almost invincible due to the black magician's treatment, only his breasts are his Achilles' heel ...

Kung Fu from Beyond the Grave is pretty much what you get when you combine martial arts and horror motives, shake them and hope for the best. And the results are ... very much on the uneven side. While the action is very well handled, the appliance of horror is almost exclusively on the wacky side, and unintentionally so - this goes from the sudden Dracula attack to the weirdly behaving undead and other horror creatures to a rather weird use of menstrual blood in the finale. Now of course, for all this it's easy to dismiss the movie as a coattail rider of the then only recent success of Encounters of the Spooky Kind (which in all honesty this film probably was), but you can also just lean back and enjoy the movie for its inconherency and its wackiness, because intended of not, it's a hoot for sure.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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