The Five Deadly Venoms Kung Fu Movie Review

The Five Deadly Venoms was a Cheh Chang directed film and definitely one of the better ones out there for all you hardcore martial art movie lovers. This 1978 release starred Sheng Chiang, Philip Kwok, Feng Lu, Pai Wei, Chien Sun and Meng Lo. This movie has an all male cast. There was no room for deadly beauties in this film. This film entails a student, Yan Tieh; to find his teachers other five former students who he believes have become evil. The students all know different forms, the Centipede, Snake, Scorpion, Lizard and Toad, of a deadly martial art with the final student knowing a little of the all the forms.

The final student must team up with one to find the others, but he is unsure of just which one to trust. The student must determine whether he can trust any of them or if he needs to destroy all of them in order to save humanity. Throughout the film he does discover that some of the students have turned evil. In this story of greed and treachery there is more blood shed then in any other martial art movie out there.

With the amount of violence in this film any action or martial art film lover will get this biggest enjoyment from this film. There are more martial arts displayed in this one film then any other ten films combined. For the true martial art form lovers out there this is a must in the library of martial art films you watch. Film is even referenced in the popular live action game World of Warcraft in the city of Stormwind with a poison selling shop called “The Five Deadly Venoms.” This has not been the only cultural reference to this film. There are many out there for this cult classic.

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