BLACK MAGIC - via Netflix DVD Mail Order
This Shaw Brothers production is an odd duck of a film. Looking like a cheap cross between a Hammer horror flick, an early Mario Bava effort, and a weird riff on Fantasy Island (or perhaps a bugged out episode of Love, American Style), it’s injected with some soft-core eroticism and hokey creepiness.
The story is essentially a tale of misguided love (aka infatuation), dueling practitioners of black magic, and spiteful lovers. Sadly, the scare factor is dismally low and there are zero bouts of kung fu craziness.
Believe it or not, they made a sequel (which is next up in my queue, although I am not expecting much based on this film).
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