Thursday, August 16, 2007

Wave of Mutilation

Ah, "The Crippled Avengers" (1978). A masterpiece of gleeful mutilation by Chang Cheh, featuring the Venoms. It's the age old story of a man whose wife is killed and whose son is mutilated by his enemies, who in turn don't survive his wrath for more than three punches.
Well, so far we're only five minutes into the movie, more has to happen! So, man builds iron arms for his son, teaches him Kung Fu and together they become some of the pettiest small town tyrants the martial arts movie world has seen, merrily blinding, mutilating and mistreating people left and right, until four of their freshly handicapped victims learn Kung Fu themselves and take beautifully choreographed bloody vengeance on them.
Well, yes it is that kind of movie.


Darlings of the day:

"Don't be formal. Demonstrate it on my body, okay?"

"Your feet are really made of iron!?"

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