ARROW VIDEO SHAW SCOPE VOLUME 4 BOX SET: Black Magic II (1976)

A hospital is plagued by black magic that can only be stopped by a married pair of physicians from Hong Kong, Dr. Zhongping Qi (Ti Lung) and his wife, Ciuling (Tanny). The skeptical wife volunteers for a ritual, uncovering an evil, zombie-controlling wizard, Kang Cong (Lo Lieh), who sustains his youth by drinking human breast milk.

Directed by Meng-Hua Ho and written by Kuang Ni, the paragraph above does describe the story, but so much happens that it can barely contain the wildness of this movie. An exotic dancer named Miss Hong (Terry Liu) ages while having sex, eyeballs are destroyed like Fulci took a trip to Hong Kong, nails go through the heads of zombies, sex causes mayhem, and doctors have to treat worms under the skin and pus-filled growths that appear to be human faces.

The evil black magician decides he wants Dr. Zhensheng Shi’s (Lam Wai Tiu) wife, Margaret (Lily Li), so he possesses her and brings her to his manor, shaves all her pubic hair, burns it, and then turns her into his breast milk machine. The very next day, she’s fully pregnant and gives birth to a bloody mutant. This is but another hurdle for our heroes to jump over. Yet even when a witch doctor fails against the voodoo dolls of Kang Cong, what hope do they have?

This was released in the U.S. as Revenge of the Zombies.

The Arrow Vide0 release of this film, part of the Shaw Scope Volume 4 set, has a high definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation, newly restored in 2K from the original negatives by Arrow Films. There’s a commentary track by critic Samm Deighan and a U.S. opening. You can get this set from MVD.

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