stormruston This movie ended so abruptly I rewinded the DVD, thinking it had skipped. Nope that was the end. I got a laugh out of that.This movie was not bad, ending aside. Think "Power Rangers" quality acting and marshal arts, add in zombies and better sets and you have this movie. The main character reminded me of Yul Bryner but without much in the way of acting skills, his side kicks were amusing. The "bad guy" was over the top, making him enjoyable to watch and adding needed spark to this movie effort.I have to say I was kept both entertained and amused so I can recommend this movie if you do not mind endings that are so abrupt you might think the camera just stopped working mid frame!

poe426 If, like myself, you grew up in darkened theaters watching kung fu classics like THE Chinese PROFESSIONALS (which starred Wang Yu as a one-armed "boxer" and featured a long-haired, fanged fellow known as "the Kung Fu Beast"), or even if you were just fortunate enough to catch some of these monsterpieces of cable television over the years, you'll find in SHAOLIN VS. THE EVIL DEAD some familiar types. For starters, there are the infamous "hopping vampires" of Chinese lore. Throw in a venerable shaman and two sidekicks (so to speak) and you've got all the ingredients for some supernatural kung fu fun. (My favorite part has to be the scene where the boy, uh, "gives birth" to his supernatural son in the outdoor outhouse...) The only real gripe I have with this one is the abrupt ending: the movie ends, quite literally, in the middle of a scene. The clips that run during the closing credits suggest a series of movies have been made... but at no other time during the proceedings are we even aware of this. Other than that, a fun film.

TorgoTron Ah, where to begin.... As another reviewer stated, this movie has a lot of promise. I mean, Kung Fu vs. Zombies, how could you go wrong? Suffice to say, this movie goes very, VERY wrong but in a completely different direction than I had anticipated.I thought I was in for your standard cheesy kung fu flick with some zombie action thrown in. What I got was an incoherent (but admittedly well-shot and choreographed) mishmash of scenes that seem to have no real connection to one another, ambling along until it just.... ends. It's hard to sum everything up, but here we go.Gordon Liu is REEALLY hamming it up as a Taoist priest who seems to spend his time walking around town followed by a pack of hopping (yes, HOPPING, like a bunny rabbit) vampires under his control. He's accompanied by his bumbling (but well-meaning) assistant and the token annoying kid. They're periodically attacked by "zombies," who really just kind of grab you and shake you around, not eat your brains or anything. Liu's "occupation" as it were seems to be to bring the souls of the zombies to reincarnation.However, there's also an evil priest in town who just wants to destroy the zombies. Dressed in sparkly black attire and with an anime "bad guy" haircut, I think they wanted to say "menacing" but this dude comes off more as just a shade of "fruity." Such a fine line.... Anyway, periodically Gordon Liu and the Evil Priest meet up every once in a while, gesticulating kung-fu action moves and casting "spells" at each other with names like "ten storms attack master go!!" and whatnot. All in all, the fight scenes have the tone of bottom-of-the-barrel anime such as Dragonball Z or Pokemon.Anyway, before the credits roll you will see (SPLOILERS, but if you really care you need to be sterilized):** Gordon Liu using the "urine of a virgin" in order to protect himself from zombies (who knew?)** The evil priest demanding all the "virgin boys" of a village in order to turn them into his brainwashed slaves** The annoying kid (who's a boy) accidentally "eat" a spirit, become "pregnant" and then "give birth" (don't ask how) to another pasty-faced kid in an outhouseAll this and more! Seriously though, it was the best laugh I've had in a long time. The only reason it gets a 2 and not a 1 is because, for some reason, all of the camera-work, choreography and technical details are remarkably good. Never before has such a well-shot movie coincided with such a COMPLETE lack of anything resembling continuity. It's as if they took a Hong Kong filming crew, and told them "zombies! Kung Fu! just wing it..." The result? Shaolin vs. Evil Dead.

rickcde Throw a low-budget movie together with some Chinese vampires, likable kung-fu master, psychedelic special-effects, a good-looking babe and some funny sidekicks and what do you get? If you're lucky, you end up with a classic like Mr. Vampire. If you're not lucky, you end up with Shaolin vs. Evil Dead.It isn't that the movie is a low-budget piece of garbage that is totally convoluted and incomprehensible (far from it) the problem is that it suffers from the medium budget mediocrity of most straight to video or made for TV fantasy movies. Although it contains all of the aforementioned fun ingredients (kung-fu, zombies, babe etc.), it just doesn't contain enough of these elements in enough exciting or outlandish ways to be considered anything close to a cult classic. (So don't expect anything as funny as a Stephen Chow movie or as over the top as the real Evil Dead movies: both of those are in a class all their own.) With that being said, I can say that I was fairly entertained for 90 minutes (it's always a treat to see Gordon Liu) and it makes for good Saturday Matinée popcorn movie fare: moving fast, and keeping up the comic book imagery. It is a fairly sincere attempt by the small cast and offers good character development if there ever is a part two.And yes, the cut to the credits is ridiculously abrupt for no apparent reason. (Couldn't they have at least finished the current scene?) but other than this goof (which seems to be making many enemies of the film) it *does* come pretty close to delivering what it promises on the cover. It is after all named "Shaolin vs. Evil Dead".