Fantasia CR: The Five Venoms

From legendary director Chang Cheh and the Shaw Brothers Studio, comes this beautifully restored print of the 1975 kung fu masterpiece, The Five Venoms.

At the request of his dying master, the last student of the martial arts school Five Venoms House is sent to discover which of the eldest five members of the school has become shamefully corrupt and take them out with the help of those that haven’t…

The Five Venoms is considered one of the high points in the history of martial arts cinema and it’s easy to see why. Pitting the Centipede, Toad, Snake, Scorpion and Lizard styles of kung fu against one another, the choreography is in magnificent form and the plot suitably complex.

There’s a lot to ingest, and it’s easy to just sit back and get lost in the maze of intrigue and thrilling fight sequences. This Venom is it’s own antidote.