The evil-worshiping red devil slaughters the parents of a young girl who is rescued from sure death by snow wolves.They raise her and over the course of twenty years teach her the wolfen ninja skill.She hopes to get her revenge on the "Red Devil".This crazy exploitation flick is easily one of the weirdest HK horror/martial-arts flicks I have ever seen.There are crimson clad ninjas,kungfu gorillas,voodoo dolls,zombies and hopping vampires among the ocean of trashy entertainment.Completely off the wall cult flick with enough gore and cheesy martial arts to satisfy even the most demanding fan of cinema bizarro.Bunny lovers beware!Cute bunnies are butchered in "Wolfen Ninja".Give this oddity a look.7 wolfen ninjas out of 10.
10 Reviews
Purely magical
BandSAboutMovies2 May 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Chang Ling/Pearl Cheong wrote, directed and starred in this martial arts opus that tells the story of a young girl who taken from her parents and raised by the legendary White Wolf of a Thousand Years. Growing up in the unforgiving permafrost of Cold Ice Peak, she learns how to use her animal, monster and kung-fu skills to find and destroy the man who killed her parents, who is known as Red Devil.
This takes the same story as The Bride with White Hair and goes absolutely insane with the wire kung fu sequences and gives our heroine a hat that looks like it was made from a stuffed dog toy. You have no idea how happy that fact makes me. She also has nunchucks that look like claws and kills hundreds of enemies in what seems like seconds.
As little sense as much of this action makes, the fact that the dubbing is so bad - it makes Bob from The House by the Cemetery seem restrained by comparison - that it becomes wonderful. Who would think to have a villain that has killed everyone Wolf Devil Woman has ever loved should sound like a Southern gentleman at best and Foghorn Leghorn at worst?
An absolute must-see.
This takes the same story as The Bride with White Hair and goes absolutely insane with the wire kung fu sequences and gives our heroine a hat that looks like it was made from a stuffed dog toy. You have no idea how happy that fact makes me. She also has nunchucks that look like claws and kills hundreds of enemies in what seems like seconds.
As little sense as much of this action makes, the fact that the dubbing is so bad - it makes Bob from The House by the Cemetery seem restrained by comparison - that it becomes wonderful. Who would think to have a villain that has killed everyone Wolf Devil Woman has ever loved should sound like a Southern gentleman at best and Foghorn Leghorn at worst?
An absolute must-see.
Totally insane martial arts/fantasy flick
dworldeater24 May 2021
Wolfen Ninja is easily one of the wildest rides in ultra low budget chop sockey cinema. It is best described as The Bride With White Hair on crack and a low budget. This can't touch The Bride With White Hair, it's a masterpiece. But this Tawainese production predates The Bride With White Hair by ten years. It does seem to have come from similar source material, a orphaned girl raised by wolves and two warring Kung Fu clans(one good and another evil). I did find this film to be quite enjoyable and is completely over the top and crazy. Being a lower budget exploitation counterpart to The Bride With White Hair, Wolfen Ninja delivers the goods with lots of blood, bad overdubbing, cheesy f/x, and lot's and lots of crazy kung fu. The movie is rarely boring and is jam packed with lots of action. Definitely a cool little flick that I am glad to have discovered.
Where oh where can I get my hooves on a copy??? :
MooCowMo17 July 2002
It has been many, many moons since the MooCow laid his astounded eyes upon the opus known as "Wolfen Ninja", but it is an experience not likely to be forgotten. :=8)
Like many of us who grew up in the 60's and 70's, I can remember seeing this amazing film during one of the many Kung Fu Double Features that played on our local tv station(before cable was all the rage) - Channel 48, out of Moo Jersey, I believe. This one had a girl who was abandoned at birth, only to be brought up by a pack of dogs/wolves, who developes her own "special" brand of kung fu. She barked, lapped up water, dressed in furs, and (god as my witness) had a stuffed dog tied around her head, no doubt to remind us of her wolven-cownection. I distinctly remember laughing uproariously throughout the entire film. I would be one happy MooCow if I cud only get my hooves on a copy. It is probably udder some secondary title, but it has proven harder to find than the Holy Grail. Suffice to say, anyone who loves silly kung fu moovies, or stinkers in general, need to see this flick. It's right up there with "Drunken Wu Tang", "Flying Guiletine", and "For Your Height Only".
Like many of us who grew up in the 60's and 70's, I can remember seeing this amazing film during one of the many Kung Fu Double Features that played on our local tv station(before cable was all the rage) - Channel 48, out of Moo Jersey, I believe. This one had a girl who was abandoned at birth, only to be brought up by a pack of dogs/wolves, who developes her own "special" brand of kung fu. She barked, lapped up water, dressed in furs, and (god as my witness) had a stuffed dog tied around her head, no doubt to remind us of her wolven-cownection. I distinctly remember laughing uproariously throughout the entire film. I would be one happy MooCow if I cud only get my hooves on a copy. It is probably udder some secondary title, but it has proven harder to find than the Holy Grail. Suffice to say, anyone who loves silly kung fu moovies, or stinkers in general, need to see this flick. It's right up there with "Drunken Wu Tang", "Flying Guiletine", and "For Your Height Only".
you want crap you got it
rottingcarrot16 February 2006
Warning: Spoilers
Wolven ninja is an amateur poorly made childish lame silly little film about some guy and his mentally impaired sidekick who are on a quest to find a white plant in the mountains so they can defeat some guy who wears a sparkling silver kkk uniform with a bright red skull and crossbones on the hat. The hero and side kick get attacked by wolves aka German Shepard at one point and there's this girl (the hero of the film) who was raised by the German Shepard. Anyway this girl chases a rabbit at one point and she wears this dead German shepard pelt on her pack with the actual head of the German shepard still attached to the rest of the pelt. Are we to believe that she killed one of the German Shepard that raised her and wears it as a warning to the other German Shepard not to mess around with her? This question and countless others must be quickly abandoned if you want to keep on top of this mangled storyline.
German shepard girl bites the male hero's hand and it draws blood but he stays perfectly calm and then he snaps her spine out of place to make her more tame. he then teaches her how to speak English about 5 seconds later she speaks fluent English! It turns out German shepard girl ate the flower hero guy and bumbling mentally impaired sidekick searched so hard for so they return home to the oppression of the LSD taking head of the Asian KKK and a whole bunch of random stuff happens.
The costumes and vomit inducing electronic sound effects are so bad I had a flashback of the time I watched Turkish star wars. Its nearly that cheap! There is some god awful wirework for the sub par but violent fight scenes too.
the editing is all over the place. One scene starts with our female hero being thrown in a well by furious villagers. The mentally impaired sidekick goes to help her and then the scene cuts to a scene with the girl and side kick washed up of the shore of a river in the wilderness where gandolf HK edition revives them, instantly cut to ninjas on horseback fighting our heroes, instantly cut to ninjas fighting our heroes at a castle, instantly cut to desert where our heroes are attacked by sand ninjas, instantly cut to Asian kkk cavernous hideout.
Around this point I fell asleep but by the power of the golden ninja warrior i dared to press play on my VCR the next day to complete the wasting of the full 90 minutes or so of my life.
*spoiler* the conclusion has the Asian kkk defeated. That's all i can remember happening except for how abruptly the film ends. German shepard girl is injured and looks like she might die but we never find out because mid scene the movie abruptly ends.
*end spoiler* I recommend this only to hardcore bad film tolerators/apologists. It did make me laugh but there are many worse/better/more laughably awful and pathetic ninja films around.
German shepard girl bites the male hero's hand and it draws blood but he stays perfectly calm and then he snaps her spine out of place to make her more tame. he then teaches her how to speak English about 5 seconds later she speaks fluent English! It turns out German shepard girl ate the flower hero guy and bumbling mentally impaired sidekick searched so hard for so they return home to the oppression of the LSD taking head of the Asian KKK and a whole bunch of random stuff happens.
The costumes and vomit inducing electronic sound effects are so bad I had a flashback of the time I watched Turkish star wars. Its nearly that cheap! There is some god awful wirework for the sub par but violent fight scenes too.
the editing is all over the place. One scene starts with our female hero being thrown in a well by furious villagers. The mentally impaired sidekick goes to help her and then the scene cuts to a scene with the girl and side kick washed up of the shore of a river in the wilderness where gandolf HK edition revives them, instantly cut to ninjas on horseback fighting our heroes, instantly cut to ninjas fighting our heroes at a castle, instantly cut to desert where our heroes are attacked by sand ninjas, instantly cut to Asian kkk cavernous hideout.
Around this point I fell asleep but by the power of the golden ninja warrior i dared to press play on my VCR the next day to complete the wasting of the full 90 minutes or so of my life.
*spoiler* the conclusion has the Asian kkk defeated. That's all i can remember happening except for how abruptly the film ends. German shepard girl is injured and looks like she might die but we never find out because mid scene the movie abruptly ends.
*end spoiler* I recommend this only to hardcore bad film tolerators/apologists. It did make me laugh but there are many worse/better/more laughably awful and pathetic ninja films around.
Taiwan, you release a diverse set of movies
lee_eisenberg19 August 2017
I recently saw Ang Lee's movies "The Wedding Banquet" and "Eat Drink Man Woman". If one sees these movies - both of them outstanding pieces of work - one might assume that only these sorts of movies come from Taiwan.
Well, it's time to burst that bubble, because you've never seen anything like Pearl Chang's "Lang nu bai mo" (alternately called "Wolf Devil Woman" and "Wolfen Devil" in English). This has to be one of the single wackiest things ever scripted and filmed. The plot centers on a wolf-raised woman whose parents an evil lord murdered, so she's out for vengeance, but it's an excuse to show off some of the zaniest moves. And the dubbing? It makes the bad guy sound like Yosemite Sam!
Basically, this is some of the most fun that you'll ever have watching a movie. I have no doubt that they had a lot of fun filming it. A great time.
Well, it's time to burst that bubble, because you've never seen anything like Pearl Chang's "Lang nu bai mo" (alternately called "Wolf Devil Woman" and "Wolfen Devil" in English). This has to be one of the single wackiest things ever scripted and filmed. The plot centers on a wolf-raised woman whose parents an evil lord murdered, so she's out for vengeance, but it's an excuse to show off some of the zaniest moves. And the dubbing? It makes the bad guy sound like Yosemite Sam!
Basically, this is some of the most fun that you'll ever have watching a movie. I have no doubt that they had a lot of fun filming it. A great time.
Incomprehensible and ineptly directed
LARSONRD15 June 2007
Warning: Spoilers
Utterly incomprehensible and ineptly directed martial arts fantasy, viewed on a poorly preserved HK VCD from Ocean Shores The silly story has something to do with a battle between villagers and the local evil warlord, named The Devil, with a young girl raised by wolves who rises to confront the wicked warlord. But the film is so poorly executed that even the cheerful, entertaining silliness of 1980s era kung fu movies can redeem it. Much of this film is clearly intended as camp (the wolf girl wears a stuffed baby wolf doll on her head; the human character's retarded sidekick constantly spews words of non-wisdom) but it's not even enjoyable on that level. The storyline is sheer idiocy; the acting is awful and the English dubbing makes it even worse. The VCD contained a warning that "this article contains material which may offend" - no doubt referring to the PETA-free treatment of rabbits which appear to have been shot and/or dismembered live in a few scenes. Ling Chan's direction consists mainly of repeating quick zooms and endless recurring cuts (i.e., the wolf attack early on in the film consists of wolves running toward the camera and then dozens of shots of wolves lunging past; even the kung fu fights are obscured by incomprehensible cut-aways, repeat images, shots aimed at nothing, and badly performed reactions from the cast. The enjoyable silliness of many kung fu fantasies of the era are often wonderfully entertaining and enjoyable, but this one was just awful.
Shouldn't be lost or forgotten!
coex234 April 2020
Demons, Wolves, Magic, And Kung-Fu, What Could Go Wrong?
P3n-E-W1s31 April 2022
Greetings And Salutations, and welcome to my review of Wolf Devil Woman. Before we get into it, here are my ratings:
Story - 0.75 Direction - 1.00 Pace - 0.50 Acting - 1.00 Enjoyment - 0.75
TOTAL - 4.00
This film is not terrible, but it comes close. And that is pretty much down to everything. The devil is in the details, and it's these small details that increase until they hurt the film.
For example: The wolves are alsatians. This substitute is not a major faux pa, but it's enough to start an annoying niggle. The irritation gets worse when you see that the wolves/alsatians live in Superman's Fortress Of Solitude. A beautifully carved and designed ice cave with running water. The annoyance gets larger when you see the Wolf Devil Woman/Wolfen Queen/Wolfen Ninja hunting rabbits. She's wearing a cuddly toy alsatian strapped to her head. I can take the insane leaps she can do, this is, after all, a fantasy martial arts film, but a cuddly toy alsatian? If she's never left the mountain pack, where did she get it? The least the wardrobe staff could have done was give her a cuddly toy wolf. By the time I got to the human voice dubbing of the wolf howls, the film, for me, was on the slippery slopes of disaster.
As I said, these little things add up. Though they made me giggle, they weren't supposed to. And that spoilt the film. But thanks for the unintentional laughs.
The other sad thing is that there are very few martial arts segments, and what is there is below the usual calibre for this genre. Though I have to say, I particularly liked the decapitations, which come toward the climax of the movie.
I would love it if some writer adapted the script for the present, and a director gave it the respect it deserves: If they haven't already. The story has the potential to make one hell of a fantastic martial arts fantasy-come-horror film. But as it stands, I'd only recommend this to the die-hard B-movie Fantasy-Horror Kung-Fu fans.
Feel free to come and visit my Absolute Horror, Obsidian Dreams, and Holding Out For A Hero lists to see where Wolf Devil Woman ranks in my charts.
Take Care & Stay Well.
Story - 0.75 Direction - 1.00 Pace - 0.50 Acting - 1.00 Enjoyment - 0.75
TOTAL - 4.00
This film is not terrible, but it comes close. And that is pretty much down to everything. The devil is in the details, and it's these small details that increase until they hurt the film.
For example: The wolves are alsatians. This substitute is not a major faux pa, but it's enough to start an annoying niggle. The irritation gets worse when you see that the wolves/alsatians live in Superman's Fortress Of Solitude. A beautifully carved and designed ice cave with running water. The annoyance gets larger when you see the Wolf Devil Woman/Wolfen Queen/Wolfen Ninja hunting rabbits. She's wearing a cuddly toy alsatian strapped to her head. I can take the insane leaps she can do, this is, after all, a fantasy martial arts film, but a cuddly toy alsatian? If she's never left the mountain pack, where did she get it? The least the wardrobe staff could have done was give her a cuddly toy wolf. By the time I got to the human voice dubbing of the wolf howls, the film, for me, was on the slippery slopes of disaster.
As I said, these little things add up. Though they made me giggle, they weren't supposed to. And that spoilt the film. But thanks for the unintentional laughs.
The other sad thing is that there are very few martial arts segments, and what is there is below the usual calibre for this genre. Though I have to say, I particularly liked the decapitations, which come toward the climax of the movie.
I would love it if some writer adapted the script for the present, and a director gave it the respect it deserves: If they haven't already. The story has the potential to make one hell of a fantastic martial arts fantasy-come-horror film. But as it stands, I'd only recommend this to the die-hard B-movie Fantasy-Horror Kung-Fu fans.
Feel free to come and visit my Absolute Horror, Obsidian Dreams, and Holding Out For A Hero lists to see where Wolf Devil Woman ranks in my charts.
Take Care & Stay Well.
Lupine lunacy.
BA_Harrison7 November 2017
Wolf Devil Woman begins with a married couple and their infant daughter attempting to escape from a cult led by Red Devil. Surrounded by Red Devil's ninjas, the couple commit suicide, covering their child in their own blood to keep her warm, before starting an avalanche. The ninjas find the bodies of the couple but cannot find the baby. After the ninjas have left, a pack of wolves (unconvincingly played by dogs) arrive on the scene to eat the corpses, with one white wolf uncovering the missing child (still alive) and, instead of eating her, taking her back to the pack's ice cavern.
Twenty years later, Young Master Rudolph (I kid you not) and his assistant Rudy embark on a perilous journey to try and locate a 1000 year old ginseng, the root necessary to defeat the Red Devil's blood freezing spell. While on their travels, they encounter the girl raised by wolves, and befriend her, teaching her how to read and write, and correcting her lousy posture. They give her the silly name of Snow Hibiscus. While explaining the purpose of their travels, they discover that the wolf girl has eaten the 1000 year ginseng, leaving them to return home empty handed.
Once home, Rudolph decides to launch a surprise attack on Red Devil, but is captured and enslaved. Snow Hibiscus rushes to his rescue, leading to a silly showdown in which the good guys are pitted against more ninjas and hopping zombies controlled by voodoo dolls.
Usually, I would enjoy the heck out of any film that features a sexy feral woman dressed as a wolf, teleporting ninjas, a villain sporting a sparkly KKK-style hood with a skull and crossbones motif, hopping zombies, badly animated fire, and even some self-inflicted arterial spray (to douse the aforementioned cartoon fire). With all of this, and more, Wolf Devil Woman sure works hard to appease trash movie fans, but despite all of its craziness, I felt disappointed overall, the dreadful performances, crap editing, and poor direction resulting in a fair amount of tedium. The tone of the whole thing is also very childish, with some particularly terrible comedy: if it wasn't for the occasional decapitation, the gushes of bright red blood and some rather unsettling animal cruelty (rabbits and chickens torn apart), I might have mistaken this for a kid's film.
3/10.
Twenty years later, Young Master Rudolph (I kid you not) and his assistant Rudy embark on a perilous journey to try and locate a 1000 year old ginseng, the root necessary to defeat the Red Devil's blood freezing spell. While on their travels, they encounter the girl raised by wolves, and befriend her, teaching her how to read and write, and correcting her lousy posture. They give her the silly name of Snow Hibiscus. While explaining the purpose of their travels, they discover that the wolf girl has eaten the 1000 year ginseng, leaving them to return home empty handed.
Once home, Rudolph decides to launch a surprise attack on Red Devil, but is captured and enslaved. Snow Hibiscus rushes to his rescue, leading to a silly showdown in which the good guys are pitted against more ninjas and hopping zombies controlled by voodoo dolls.
Usually, I would enjoy the heck out of any film that features a sexy feral woman dressed as a wolf, teleporting ninjas, a villain sporting a sparkly KKK-style hood with a skull and crossbones motif, hopping zombies, badly animated fire, and even some self-inflicted arterial spray (to douse the aforementioned cartoon fire). With all of this, and more, Wolf Devil Woman sure works hard to appease trash movie fans, but despite all of its craziness, I felt disappointed overall, the dreadful performances, crap editing, and poor direction resulting in a fair amount of tedium. The tone of the whole thing is also very childish, with some particularly terrible comedy: if it wasn't for the occasional decapitation, the gushes of bright red blood and some rather unsettling animal cruelty (rabbits and chickens torn apart), I might have mistaken this for a kid's film.
3/10.
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