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Raw Force (1982)
When you’re a genre film fan it’s not very often that a film comes across your viewing space and blows your mind for being like nothing you’ve ever seen before. Sure there are the classics that everyone knows about but you usually run through those like a hot knife through butter when you find out about them. So after years and years of watching great films, not too much comes along that makes you really flinch and eye. Then something happens. Something very strange that’s hard to explain but just about every genre fan out there recognizes. You know them and you’ve seen them time and time again. Movies that are awesome, yet have no right to even be nearly as entertaining and kick ass as they are. Well my friends if you’ve never heard of a film called “Raw Force” then you’re in luck, because this is exactly what type of movie this one is.
“Raw Force” centers around a group of martial arts students that hit a cruise ship for some vacation time. Only problem is that the ship is headed to an island that is the resting place of ghosts of martial artists who have for one reason or another lost their honor. If that’s not enough there’s a doppleganger for Hitler running around with his own personal slavery business. Before you know it there is kung fu everywhere, white slavery, gratuitous nudity galore and even kung fu zombies!
So if you’re a genre fan and you’ve read my description above I’ve probably already lost you. Either you have no idea what the hell I’m talking about or you’re frantically scouring your movie collection looking for it or your online trying to find a way to get a copy of this. But if you’re reading still, good because there’s more to tell you. First off this movie like I said above had probably more gratuitous nudity than anything in recent memory for me so bonus there! Not only that but there’s enough kung fu action in here to satisfy as well as a wacky storyline to keep everything glued together.
Of course the acting in the film is suspect, but when dealing with material like this, WHO CARES?! This movie isn’t about acting and screenplays, it’s about boobs and kung fu zombies and if you can’t get down on that, then I’m not down with you plain and simple. Did I mention the cannibal monks yet? No? Ok, well there’s a crew of cannibal monks on the island too and they seem to be Hitler’s cousin’s best customers!
Bottom line is for your disturbed genre spending dollar there are few films that pack the punch that this one does. It’s badass from beginning to end and I honestly could have sat through about 9 more hours of this stuff. It’s exploitation filmmaking at it’s finest and it gets a great recommendation from me. This is a classic we’re talking here people.
Rating - ****
-Ed Demko
