If He-Man and the Masters of the Universe dropped acid with the Shaw Brothers while knocking out a martial arts horror-fantasy movie, that movie would be "Thrilling Bloody Sword."
This head-spinning slice of Taiwanese psychotronic cinema is based on "Snow White" and boasts impossible fight scenes, plus wild monsters that include a cyclops, a pterodactyl, and Satan himself!
A queen gives birth to a fleshy egg. The king tosses the egg in the river. Seven little people stumble onto it and find a cute baby inside—one who grows up to be a beautiful princess. One day, she runs into a prince, and course, they fall in love. Unfortunately, a group of dastardly wizards want to keep them apart, and they’ll use every creature at their disposal to do it!
Kung-fu magic!
Preservation courtesy of Gold Ninja Video and the American Genre Film Archive.