新火烧红莲寺 (HK Title) 火烧红莲寺 (HK Title) Huo shao hong lian si (HK Title) Rape Of The Red Temple (Int. Title) Destruction Of The Red Lotus Temple (Int. Title) Le Temple du lotus rouge (French Title)
After having destroyed the Shaolin temple, the sect of the Red Lotus hunts down the remaining Shaolin monks. Fong Sai Fuk is catched and sent to the Red Lotus temple, a great and dangerous fortress full of boobytraps and whose head master is an insane bloodthirsty man.
Review
This movie was a big flop at the HK box office. There is not any info available about this collaboration between Tsui Hark and Ringo Lam. How to distinguish the work of a director from another then? There are this labyrinth aspect inherited directly from Butterfly Murder and a sense of gory effects common to both directors. The result is wonderful since it mixes the pleasure of being immersed into a horror atmosphere mixed with political thoughts on the future of Hong-Kong, plus great martial...