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Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill meets Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead as Hong Kong cinema legend Gordon Liu (Kill Bill 1 and 2; Master Killer) takes on the forces of the demonic underworld in the weird and wonderful horror-comedy kung fu flick, Shaolin vs. Evil Dead.
When the immortal King of the Vampires (Kit Cheung) is accidentally re-awakened, it is up to two competing Shaolin monks, Brother White (Gordon Liu) and Brother Black (Louis Fan, star of The Story of Ricky), to save the world from the devastating army of darkness. Aided by their assistants, the bungling Sun (Jacky Woo) and Fire (Shi Xiao-Hu), and the beautiful but deadly Moon (played by Liu's Drunken Monkey co-star Shannon Yoh), White and Black are forced to confront bizarre hopping vampires, maggot-ridden corpses, exploding midget zombies and armies of junior Shaolin monks and kung fu killers in the Satanic showdown that is Shaolin Vs. Evil Dead!
Packed with comedy gore, bizarre humor and moments of hilariously violent slapstick, Shaolin vs. Evil Dead is also enlivened by superb fight choreography and wire-work of a standard that kung fu fans have come to expect from modern day martial arts films.
http://www.kungfucinema.com/news/2005/012701.htm
A review:
http://news.inq7.net/entertainment/index.php?index=1&story_id=31053
The above review isn't overly helpful but it certainly has the feel of a cult classic (classic Chinese hopping zombies and a lot of them from the pics I've seen! Also anything offering "exploding zombie midgets" has got my bum on a seat ) and the Kill Bill connection should get it more viewers.
You can get it here:
Amazon.com (only preordering at the moment)
Amazon.co.uk
Play.com