The Seventh Curse

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The Seventh Curse
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Film poster
Directed by Lam Ngai Kai
Screenplay by Wong Jing
Yuen Gai-chi
Based onDr. Yuen Series
by Ni Kuang
Produced byWong Jing
Chua Lam
Starring Chow Yun-fat
Chin Siu-ho
Dick Wei
Maggie Cheung
Sibelle Hu
Narrated byNi Kuang
CinematographyLam Wa-chui
Edited byYu Ma-chiu
Siu Fung
Ma Chung-yiu
Cheung Man-keung
Music byStephen Shing
Production
company
Paragon Films
Distributed by Golden Harvest
Release date
  • 17 October 1986 (1986-10-17)
Running time
81 minutes
CountryHong Kong
Languages Cantonese, English
Box officeHK$10,219,984

The Seventh Curse is a 1986 Hong Kong action horror film directed by Lam Ngai Kai. The film is based on Ni Kuang's novel series Dr. Yuen Series. The film stars Chin Siu-ho as Dr. Yuen Chen-hsieh, and Chow Yun-fat as Wisely, the protagonist in Ni's Wisely Series who appears as a supporting character in the Dr Yuen Series, while Ni serves as the film's narrator and making a brief appearance as himself.

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Plot

Dr. Yuen attempts to rescue a beautiful girl from being sacrificed to the "Worm Tribe" she belongs to. Yuen is damned with seven "Blood Curses" which burst through his leg periodically. He will die when the seventh bursts, but Bachu, the girl he saved, stops the curse with an antidote. The antidote only lasts one year, so on the advice of Wisely he heads back to Thailand to find a permanent cure. Yuen and his allies battle the evil sorcerer of the Worm Tribe, a hideous bloodthirsty baby-like creature, and "Old Ancestor," a skeleton with glowing blue eyes that transforms into a monster.

Alternative versions

This film has at least three different endings for each of its official releases:

Cast

Reception

One reviewer said, "The Seventh Curse is weird and crude, gross and tasteless, silly and shocking, but God is it fun." [1]

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References

  1. O'Connor, Thomas (26 January 2017). "The Seventh Curse' is a Baffling, Genre-Mixing Horror Adventure". Goomba Stomp. Retrieved 16 September 2020.