3/5 The Venoms...so what!
  by Johnnie Lewis
The title of this movie should really be: Look at my shiny stick! This flick is a murder mystery! Just because the venoms were in it didn't make it any better. There were no spectacular martial arts battles just guys running around in masks stabbing people with shiny sticks! The only good things you could say about this is that: 1)It has plenty of blood, 2)Samples of this movie were used for a rap album called "The Pillage" by an artist named Cappadonna of the Wu-Tang Clan.,and 3)There is no love story! Its better to rent before you buy! This movie is just another example of false hope. Just because a certain actor or a group of actors are in a movie doesn't change the fact that the movie will suck regardless!

1/5 The DVD not the movie
  by KungFuView (Los Angeles, CA)
I just got a copy of this movie, "limited collector's edition" and it is a worse-than-VHS scrunched transfer on a DVD with no label whatsoever. Very disappointing. It was not the "remastered" version as displayed on this page. I don't want to get burned again. Anyone see the Red Sun version or know who's selling a good U.S. version of this?

4/5 This is the way a Venom film should be seen
  by Michael W. Jaworski (Fairfield, NJ USA)
Anyone who has clicked on this movie or has read any of the reviews must be familiar with this Chang Cheh classic from the latter-days of the Venoms (1981). Despite missing Lo Mang & Sun Chien, director Chang makes up for that by combining his core Venoms-Kuo Chui, Chiang Sheng, Lu Feng & Wang Li and supporting Venoms-Yu Tai-Ping (he gets the acid at the end) & Liu Huang-Shih (he gets the arrows)- with Chien Siu-Hou (from "Fist of Legend") & Chu Ke; an exciting, acrobatic martial artist who also contributed to the choreography. Great performances, awesome hard-hitting trident fu, and a dark atmosphere (almost like a horror/kung fu combo). Amazing climatic end fight here.

Now, just wanted to let everyone know that the version I received recently is a digitally restored & remastered DVD of this Venom classic. Celestial just released this last year (2007) and Bonzai got their hands on a nice, clean, widescreen print that they enhanced for 16x9 TVs! I never saw it look this good before. Great picture; so-so sound though. The audio comes from the NS VHS version. While the English dub itself is decent, it's incomplete here (there are about three or four times it switches to Mandarin-don't worry, it's accompanied by subtitles), and it's real "hissy" for the first 30 minutes, then it's fine. Bottom line, for a guy who had to rely on a bootleg, pan-and-scan video for 15 years, I'll deal with the so-so audio because the picture on this DVD is, like the Venoms, awesome.

4/5 Super Bloody Venom Mob Moivie
  by Jerry E. Monroe (USA PA)
This is one of my Favorite Kung Fu movies. Philip Kwok does an awesome Trident Kung Fu Form of which I have won tournaments doing. Because I took parts of his movies and incorporated into my form its great!. But this movie is bloody. Very bloody and not suitable for younger audiences. Its action packed. Good sword play but very little hand to hand combat as written in another post. What I highly suggest is that you get this movie but the REMASTERED Version. Or you will waist you money. The DVD cover is mostly Red. Check it out its one of their Best.

CE

3/5 Venoms Top Five.
  by D. Bibb (UK)
The film is in my Venom top 5,but the picture quality is poor.