Épicos de Kung-Fu e outros que tal

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As the leader of the "Poison Clan" draws his last breath, he asks his pupil for one final favor: Track down five former students, each trained in a special "venomous" style of fighting, and make sure they aren't involved with the theft of an inheritance. And thus begins "Five Deadly Venoms," one of the most delightfully delirious kung-fu movies ever to come out of the legendary Shaw Brothers' studio, featuring a quintet in garish Mexican-wrestler masks battling each other with deadly Scorpion, Snake, Lizard, Toad and Centipede styles. Director Cheh Cheng had already secured himself a place in the Hall of Fame thanks to the long list of innovations he brought to the genre (he's credited with, among other things, introducing the whiplash zoom shots and quick pans that would immediately become de rigueur). But the martial-arts mayhem he brews up here almost defies description, and the fight scenes are among the most creatively choreographed chop-socky you'll ever see. The film made stars out of its five main actors, who went on to make a series of successful movies together for the next three years.