Mo (1983)

User Rating:

7.3/10   

Director:

Chih-Hung Kuei

Writers:

Chih-Hung Kuei (story)
On Szeto (screenplay)

Release Date:

21 November 2006 (USA)

Genre:

Horror

Plot Keywords:

Maggot | Needle In Eye | Eel | Boxer | Giant Spider

Cast

Somjai Boomsong
Phillip Ko		(as Phillip Kao)
You-hsing Lai
Wai Lam
Hak Shun Leung
Chih Tai Lin
Xiaoyen Lin
Chun Liu
Han-yuan Ma
Edmund P. Meneses
Major Oponpa
Victor B. Pumicpic
Gwa-pau Sai
Rolando San-Juan
Elvis Tsui
Lung Wei Wang
Jiawen Wei
Bolo Yeung	...	Mr. Bu-bo - the Thai Boxer
Hsiang Lin Yin

Also Known As:

The Boxer's Omen (Hong Kong: English title)

Runtime:

105 min | USA:99 min

Country:

Hong Kong

Language:

Mandarin | Cantonese | Tagalog

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

Hong Kong, China

Company:

Shaw Brothers

Movie Connections:

References Phantasm (1979)

Wow - What a strange, wild trip!

I've seen a lot of freaky Asian cinema - and many of the strange horror/black magic stuff from the Phillipines and Indonesia makes your jaw drop but I must say, BOXER'S OMEN (or MO)has to be one of the weirdest if not THE weirdest films I've ever seen. There is a plot but it almost doesn't matter - just the mind-blowing action sequences are enough for you and your like-minded friends to enjoy. Demon bats, spiders, eels emerge from people's mouths, strange insects burrowing into people's openings, alligator's being cut open so a corpse can be laid inside to bring the dead soul back, man oh man. Now most of the effects are really cheesy and laughable but hey - this is almost 25 years ago! Then again, some of the effects are very EFFECTive - enough to make you gasp, while as I said, many will make you howl with laughter. Produced by The Shaw Brothers, who have made legendary kung-fu movies and such horrid big gorilla movies like Mighty Peking Man totally deliver the goods with this fun trainwreck of a movie - it's like David Lynch meets John Waters meets the Mystic Of Bali. The new DVD release is great - the print is spotless.