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Quickie Review Double Feature - Five Deadly Venoms/Zombie

1978 & 1980 was a very different time for movies. Sexploitation was in and the violence was getting amped up, but the graphic nature of this violence was fairly behind the times. Then came a handful of horror and kung fu movies that changed all that. These two are considered cult classics and many view them as being well ahead of their time.

Five Deadly Venoms is considered by many to be the most influential kung fu movie of all time. Everyone from the Wu-Tang Clan to Quentin Tarantino has been greatly influenced by it and it was also one of the first plot driven films of the genre, with genuine acting and a huge backstory. While it's showing its age in some aspects, if you look carefully you'll see nearly every scene has been recreated in some way by others

Zombie is Fulci's masterpiece. That is not to say its that good, but it is a film with scares and some effects and makeup that were way ahead of its time. It has everything that late 70's/early 80's was known for; weak acting, see through blouses, lots of fake blood and a mad doctor, who really isn't that mad. I should add that it also contains one of the greatest scenes ever filmed underwater. It starts with an exotic beauty scuba diving topless with the smallest thong I've ever seen and ends with a shark and a zombie fighting each other.How could you go wrong?

Both films are repetitive and altogether silly, but for a nice quiet double feature day, they were perfect for some mindless entertainment.

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