I'm surprised to see this eerie Shaw Brothers outing from king of atmosphere director Sun Chung getting so little recognition on here. REVENGE OF THE CORPSE offers an outlandish twist on the LES DIABOLIQUES format (already given a Shaw outing in the form of HEX), in which familial strife and adultery leads to the usual murder and then...revenge from beyond the grave! After a typical set-up, this film goes all-out in its depiction of rotting, visceral horror, thus tying firmly it into the Shaw horror genre familiar from the BLACK MAGIC films and many more.
Jason Pai Piao plays a stern policeman whose wife (who barely features in the story) cheats on him with an outrageously amoral Lo Lieh. Lieh sets him up and has him sent to prison, where the corrupt police chief Ku Feng mercilessly beats him. On release, Piao returns home to be poisoned and murdered by his wife, but he doesn't stay long in the grave. Although the studio's renowned martial arts are in short supply here, the horror is in full force and blood often splatters across the screen. It's grisly, ghastly material, with small roles for Shaw greats like Yuen Wah and Chan Shen, and one of those ghostly action climaxes that all fans of Hong Kong horror cinema will welcome and love.
Jason Pai Piao plays a stern policeman whose wife (who barely features in the story) cheats on him with an outrageously amoral Lo Lieh. Lieh sets him up and has him sent to prison, where the corrupt police chief Ku Feng mercilessly beats him. On release, Piao returns home to be poisoned and murdered by his wife, but he doesn't stay long in the grave. Although the studio's renowned martial arts are in short supply here, the horror is in full force and blood often splatters across the screen. It's grisly, ghastly material, with small roles for Shaw greats like Yuen Wah and Chan Shen, and one of those ghostly action climaxes that all fans of Hong Kong horror cinema will welcome and love.
