Gordon
Lui stars as Brother White, a priest bringing a load of zombies to their final
resting place. Along the way, he and his
two young helpers, Sun and Fire run smack into a mess of zombies. The only way to stop them is to trap the
zombies’ essence inside of “spirit eggs”. During the battle, Fire accidentally swallows
one of the eggs, which causes some unforeseen problems.
Shaolin vs. Evil Dead starts off with a fun Kung Fu battle inside a haunted restaurant. The zombies all appear to be normal customers unless you say a spell to reveal their true nature. It’s a neat bit of Hong Kong horror, but from there, the film gets increasingly spotty as it goes along.
The
movie is at its best when it focuses on the evil dead and not shaolin. The fights are okay, but they sometimes use
too much slow motion. The romantic subplot will get on your nerves too
and a lot of the comic relief shit is annoying.
The stuff with Gordon’s headstrong brother is particularly drab and the
scene where he creates a “Virgin Army” isn’t nearly as cool as it sounds. (It’s a bunch of little kids and not a lot of
hot girls.) The “Phantom Chess” sequence
in which the kids turn into bad CGI animals is really weak as well.
The
zombies are pretty cool though and their make-up is similar to something out of
a Fulci film. The hopping zombies are fun
too and the scenes where Lui frantically tries to keep them in check by
slapping prayer notes on their foreheads are good for a laugh. The WTF factor gets kicked up to 11 once Fire
eats the spirit egg and shits out a full-grown child covered in shaving cream
who follows him around and calls him “mama”.
I can honestly say I haven’t seen that before.
Too
bad it all ends so abruptly so you can’t tell what the hell just happened. Then again, there’s footage from the sequel
during the credits to assure you it will all make sense eventually. Maybe.
All I know is that if the sequel can’t top the
child-shitting-out-another-child scene, then why even bother?
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