Lang nu bai mo

The evil-worshiping red devil slaughters the parents of a young girl who is rescued from sure death by snow wolves.They raise her and over the course of twenty years teach her the wolfen ninja skill.She hopes to get her revenge on the "Red Devil".This crazy exploitation flick is easily one of the weirdest HK horror/martial-arts flicks I have ever seen.There are crimson clad ninjas,kungfu gorillas,voodoo dolls,zombies and hopping vampires among the ocean of trashy entertainment.Completely off the wall cult flick with enough gore and cheesy martial arts to satisfy even the most demanding fan of cinema bizarro.Bunny lovers beware!Cute bunnies are butchered in "Wolfen Ninja".Give this oddity a look.7 wolfen ninjas out of 10.

Why is the elusive 4 hour cut of this not on blu-ray????

Heck, why is it not even on DVD?

WHERE is Pearl? Why is this film lost to the dust bins?

Wolf Devil Woman begins with a married couple and their infant daughter attempting to escape from a cult led by Red Devil. Surrounded by Red Devil's ninjas, the couple commit suicide, covering their child in their own blood to keep her warm, before starting an avalanche. The ninjas find the bodies of the couple but cannot find the baby. After the ninjas have left, a pack of wolves (unconvincingly played by dogs) arrive on the scene to eat the corpses, with one white wolf uncovering the missing child (still alive) and, instead of eating her, taking her back to the pack's ice cavern.

Twenty years later, Young Master Rudolph (I kid you not) and his assistant Rudy embark on a perilous journey to try and locate a 1000 year old ginseng, the root necessary to defeat the Red Devil's blood freezing spell. While on their travels, they encounter the girl raised by wolves, and befriend her, teaching her how to read and write, and correcting her lousy posture. They give her the silly name of Snow Hibiscus. While explaining the purpose of their travels, they discover that the wolf girl has eaten the 1000 year ginseng, leaving them to return home empty handed.

Once home, Rudolph decides to launch a surprise attack on Red Devil, but is captured and enslaved. Snow Hibiscus rushes to his rescue, leading to a silly showdown in which the good guys are pitted against more ninjas and hopping zombies controlled by voodoo dolls.

Usually, I would enjoy the heck out of any film that features a sexy feral woman dressed as a wolf, teleporting ninjas, a villain sporting a sparkly KKK-style hood with a skull and crossbones motif, hopping zombies, badly animated fire, and even some self-inflicted arterial spray (to douse the aforementioned cartoon fire). With all of this, and more, Wolf Devil Woman sure works hard to appease trash movie fans, but despite all of its craziness, I felt disappointed overall, the dreadful performances, crap editing, and poor direction resulting in a fair amount of tedium. The tone of the whole thing is also very childish, with some particularly terrible comedy: if it wasn't for the occasional decapitation, the gushes of bright red blood and some rather unsettling animal cruelty (rabbits and chickens torn apart), I might have mistaken this for a kid's film.

3/10.

I recently saw Ang Lee's movies "The Wedding Banquet" and "Eat Drink Man Woman". If one sees these movies - both of them outstanding pieces of work - one might assume that only these sorts of movies come from Taiwan.

Well, it's time to burst that bubble, because you've never seen anything like Pearl Chang's "Lang nu bai mo" (alternately called "Wolf Devil Woman" and "Wolfen Devil" in English). This has to be one of the single wackiest things ever scripted and filmed. The plot centers on a wolf-raised woman whose parents an evil lord murdered, so she's out for vengeance, but it's an excuse to show off some of the zaniest moves. And the dubbing? It makes the bad guy sound like Yosemite Sam!

Basically, this is some of the most fun that you'll ever have watching a movie. I have no doubt that they had a lot of fun filming it. A great time.

Wolfen Ninja is easily one of the wildest rides in ultra low budget chop sockey cinema. It is best described as The Bride With White Hair on crack and a low budget. This can't touch The Bride With White Hair, it's a masterpiece. But this Tawainese production predates The Bride With White Hair by ten years. It does seem to have come from similar source material, a orphaned girl raised by wolves and two warring Kung Fu clans(one good and another evil). I did find this film to be quite enjoyable and is completely over the top and crazy. Being a lower budget exploitation counterpart to The Bride With White Hair, Wolfen Ninja delivers the goods with lots of blood, bad overdubbing, cheesy f/x, and lot's and lots of crazy kung fu. The movie is rarely boring and is jam packed with lots of action. Definitely a cool little flick that I am glad to have discovered.