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While the world famous Shaw Brothers studio is a name synonymous with kung-fu and martial arts movies, like most major studios they dabbled in whatever genres would turn a profit for them so it should surprise no one to find that they also put out their fare share of horror films as well. 1974s Black Magic isnt the best horror offering that the studio made but its definitely up there and it still proves to be a whole lot of trashy fun even thirty years after the fact.

An introduction sets the stage for what is to come by introducing us to two wizards a good wizard named Furong (Koo Man-chung) and an evil one named San Kan-Mi (Ku Feng). These two, working on opposite sides of the magical spectrum, dont necessarily get along so well. From there the movie switches quite drastically and we meet a construction worker named Xu Nu (Ti Lung). When hes not building st...Read the entire review



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