The Master Demon

Well what can be expected with zero budget. On the other hand the movie has some highlights and it turns out just like the movies we make here for zero budget. Fun to watch for those who understand the background and a complete waste for those who want mainstream. My best moment is when the "Butte Police" character is at home and wastes some time in the sofa and stares around thinking of something to do. I guess the script said "sit in the sofa" and he had to think of the rest himself. I recommend it for people who makes home action movies for fun. There are some good punch-scenes also and some that could benefit from some more timing..

This was one of the biggest wastes of time I have ever witnessed. VERY bad acting, monotonous action sequences (hey 10 ninja's, hey another 10 ninja's) and the 'martial arts' looked like they came straight out of a power rangers episode. Several inconsistencies. Where did cameron come from after the master demon was defeated? Bad acting. People look like they are reading boards while speaking their lines. The weapons looked like cardboard with some paint. Who choreographed the fights? The worst fights I have ever seen in any movie EVER (even jeff trent's suckerpunch in plan 9 looked more believable) Worst lighting I have ever seen (every shot featured 10-meter shadows even while people were talking ?) The story was ok, but overall this was a pretty bad movie which I was hoping to END, END, END as long as it lasted.

In defense of the film;

It had a budget that would make Robert Rodriegez of "El Mariachi" fame go into shock... less that the price of a low budgeted screenplay, and was made with a desire to pay homage to John Carpenter's "Big Trouble In Little China" featuring many of the martial artists appearing in that film with the added intention of showcasing the character of "Medusa" for another feature in the works, before the actress's untimely death, about a "warrior princess" that years later inspired "Xena".

Sincerely The film maker.

A centuries old conflict betwixt good and evil is to be fought in the present, martial arts master Tong Lee (Eric Lee) is grimly fated, once again, to battle the fiendish Master Demon (Gerald Okamura). With mankind's destiny held precariously in the balance, Kung Fu powerhouse Lee must call upon his prodigious combat skills to prevent a demon-seeded apocalypse!!! Let's get uncommonly real, any luridly low budget Martial Arts action spectacular that excitingly commences with a gonzo Kung Fu battle featuring a deliciously demonic Gerald Okamura is objectively going to be far groovier than anything you might have otherwise chosen to watch. A seriously sinewy Tong Lee proves electric as the heroic white warrior, charismatic B-icon Gerald Okamura is on dynamically Stentorian form as the malefic Master Demon, and his sinisterly sexy sidekick Medusa (Kay Baxter Young) makes for a memorably muscular, magnificently man-mashing Amazon! With a consistently entertaining Ed Wooden aesthetic, the exhilaratingly scrap-happy The master Demon is some idiot savant level chop-schlocky genius, baby! Z-Grade filmmaking coupled with A-list lunacy is a red-hot recipe for B-movie batso brilliance!!!

To properly judge this movie, you shouldn't take it seriously at all. It is another example of an low budget fighting movie. If you take a closer look at the movies of Bruce Lee or Jacky Chan (or any karate movie at all), you won't find any bit of reality or sense in there, all "Hong-Kong made" with horrible re-recorded sound. Hellavalot of "punch-punch-punch" and our beloved hero gloriously walks out in the end with some candy-girl by his side. But this movie, (I'll be honest) I did really liked. It has some touch of "bad-humor", watching this movie I kept on laughing, I don't know but it's stuffed with all possible kind of "karate-cliche" which makes it lot's of fun to watch. The "special" effects are adorable, it's fun to see it, it's really is. And all that enthusiastic people involved in this movie, fantastic. I put this DVD into my Comedy section, same reason you can't put "Welcome to the Jungle" to the drama section, do you? So, if you like B-Movies or low budget pictures from the 80's, than this is your thing. It has some nostalgic elements from the 80,s.