THE DRAGON LIVES AGAIN
Monday, September 29th at 8:00 pm
It's MONDO MONDAYS at The Loft, celebrating weird, wild and wonderful flicks from the Mondo side of the silver screen! Admission is only $2.00, and don't forget to check out our yummy "Mondo Munchies" snack bucket ... fill a cup for a buck!
"I guarantee you simply won’t believe your eyes, as nothing can truly prepare you for the surreal nonsense on offer here ... one of the strangest, most inept yet hugely entertaining pieces of trash you’ll ever see." -KEVS CUPBOARD
Prepare yourself for this notorious, jaw-dropping slab of "Bruceploitation" kung-fu cinema, a supposed tribute to the late, great martial arts superstar Bruce Lee.
This truly unbelievable 1976 action/fantasy begins with the relatively tasteless idea that after his death, Bruce Lee (played by Bruce Leong, who neither looks nor fights anything like Bruce Lee) ends up in Hell (or more accurately, "The Underworld," which is a predominately Chinese purgatory approximately one flight up from Hell). The Underworld is ruled by a fun-loving king who wears a beaded lampshade on his head and spends his days chasing naked concubines around a giant hot tub. But all is not perfect in this hellish paradise ... it seems that the king is facing a possible coup by a bizarre assortment of 1960s/1970s pop icons (played by Chinese actors who also look nothing like their real-life counterparts) who want to take over The Underworld. The evil gang includes James Bond, The Godfather, The Exorcist, Emmanuelle, Dracula, some Egyptian mummies, and a bunch of guys in baggy Halloween skeleton costumes. Luckily, Bruce, our karate-chopping hero, manages to team up with The One-Armed Boxer and Popeye the Sailor Man (yes, it's true) to defeat the baddies and save The Underworld.
Chock full of REALLY awful dubbing, Three Stooges-style sound effects, clumsy fight choreography, and a wacky roster of miscast actors who look and sound like a small-town theater troupe trying to pass themselves off as pop culture icons (not to mention numerous inexplicable references to Bruce Lee's "massive manhood"), THE DRAGON LIVES AGAIN will blow your mind.