The Black Tavern
The Black Tavern
This sword-filled thriller centers on the title location--an inn where the down and dirty meet to plot nefarious doings. Award winning actor Ku Feng stars as the "Whip Devil," while the luminous and lethal Shih Szu plays "The Lady Hermit" who has a surprise in store for all the double-crossing masters of mayhem.
Matthias_812 reviewedApril 3, 2025
Rapid fire highlights:
-Wuxia fights with a whip
-Decapitations (including by whip)
-Number of limbs cut off
-Eyeballs gouged out by whip
-Moderate amount of blood/gore
-Snowy setting
-Human remains cooked into food and served at an inn to unsuspecting guests
-Like eighty percent of the run time is fight sequences
Just over eighty minutes and packed to the brim with incredible martial artistry and nearly stepping into sleaze territory. Tarantino ripped off the plot for The Hateful Eight. There's also some similarities to Dragon Inn and Come Drink With Me. I'd feel confident to declare this has shot up to my personal top ten martial arts films and it makes you wonder just how many gems from this genre are buried to time waiting to be discovered- if at all possible.