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''The Devil's Mirror'' is a 1972 {{wuxia}} directed by Sun Chung, one of the many films of its kind produced by Creator/ShawBrothers… and among the goriest. Seems like there's a clearance for fake blood in 1972, considering that's the same year the Shaws made ''Film/TheCasino'' and ''Film/TheImperialSwordsman'', and oh boy is it simply ''glorious''.
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''The Devil's Mirror'' is a 1972 {{wuxia}} directed by Sun Chung, one of the many films of its kind produced by Creator/ShawBrothers… and among the goriest. Seems (Seems like there's a clearance for fake blood in 1972, considering that's the same year the Shaws made ''Film/TheCasino'' and ''Film/TheImperialSwordsman'', and oh boy is it simply ''glorious''.
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* BewareTheSkullBase: The lair of the Jiuxian witch is filled with skull motifs, including the doors leading to her inner sanctums which is a massive skull mouth. Even her throne is located in the nose and mouth of a massive skull sculpture, with two burning torches in place of eyes! [[https://149357165.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/devilsmirror_1.jpg Yeah, really]].
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* BewareTheSkullBase: The lair of the Jiuxian witch is filled with skull motifs, including the doors leading to her inner sanctums which is a massive skull mouth. Even her throne is located in the nose and mouth of a massive skull sculpture, with two burning torches in place of eyes! eyes - [[https://149357165.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/devilsmirror_1.jpg Yeah, yeah, really]].
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* ChainPain: Unlike most of the heroes, Master Bai instead fights with a chain made of gold circlets, which he can transform alternately as a whip, a chain for strangling enemies, or even solidify it enough to become another sword! [[spoiler: He managed to impaled the Jiuxian Witch using the third form towards the end of the film]].
* CoolOldGuy: Master Bai, the lord of the Bai clan and Bai Xiao-feng's father, an elderly kung-fu master who can still kick all sorts of ass... with only one leg! [[spoiler: Of course then again he's faking his disability]].
* CoolOldGuy: Master Bai, the lord of the Bai clan and Bai Xiao-feng's father, an elderly kung-fu master who can still kick all sorts of ass... with only one leg! [[spoiler: Of course then again he's faking his disability]].
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* ChainPain: Unlike most of the heroes, Master Bai instead fights with a chain made of gold circlets, which he can transform alternately as a whip, a chain for strangling enemies, or even solidify it enough to become another sword! sword. [[spoiler: He managed to impaled the Jiuxian Witch using the third form towards the end of the film]].
* CoolOldGuy: Master Bai, the lord of the Bai clan and Bai Xiao-feng's father, an elderly kung-fu master who can still kick all sorts of ass... with onlyone leg! ''one leg''. [[spoiler: Of course then again he's faking his disability]].
* CoolOldGuy: Master Bai, the lord of the Bai clan and Bai Xiao-feng's father, an elderly kung-fu master who can still kick all sorts of ass... with only
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* HighPressureBlood: The Shaws must've gotten a really, really, ''really'' good bargain on cheap red sauce for this film! The amount of blood and gore that accompanies each and every of its 200-ish onscreen deaths is ''amazing''. Especially for [[spoiler: Master Wen, father of Wen Jian-feng]], who upon being poisoned by the Jiuxian Witch, then gets seven swords from various mooks thrushed from all around him. Resulting in a literal ''geyser'' of red sauce that reaches the ceiling.
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* HighPressureBlood: The Shaws must've gotten a really, really, ''really'' good bargain on cheap red sauce for this film! film. The amount of blood and gore that accompanies each and every of its 200-ish onscreen deaths is ''amazing''. Especially for [[spoiler: Master Wen, father of Wen Jian-feng]], who upon being poisoned by the Jiuxian Witch, then gets seven swords from various mooks thrushed from all around him. Resulting in a literal ''geyser'' of red sauce that reaches the ceiling.
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* InvincibleVillain: The Jiuxian Witch might be one of the most overpowered villains in Shaw Brothers ''wuxia'' (and that's saying a lot!), easily slaughtering named characters and overpowering entire armies of redshirts with ease in her unstoppable rampage for domination. The ''only'' reason the heroes, consisting of Bai Xiaofeng, Wen Jianfeng and Master Bai combining their powers, managed to stand a chance against her in the finale is because the Witch had [[WorfHadTheFlu spent much of her life-force in order to overpower the mausoleum's defenses and is internally injured]]. [[spoiler: Even then, they still ''barely'' managed to win, with Master Bai giving his life for the heroes]].
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* InvincibleVillain: The Jiuxian Witch might be one of the most overpowered villains in Shaw Brothers ''wuxia'' (and that's saying a lot!), lot), easily slaughtering named characters and overpowering entire armies of redshirts with ease in her unstoppable rampage for domination. The ''only'' reason the heroes, consisting of Bai Xiaofeng, Wen Jianfeng and Master Bai combining their powers, managed to stand a chance against her in the finale is because the Witch had [[WorfHadTheFlu spent much of her life-force in order to overpower the mausoleum's defenses and is internally injured]]. [[spoiler: Even then, they still ''barely'' managed to win, with Master Bai giving his life for the heroes]].
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* SlapSlapKiss: The two heroes, Bai Xiao-feng and Wen Jian-feng (the LoveInterrest of each other) spends as much time duelling each other as they did fighting evil together. It's somewhat justified the first time however, as she suspects that he had stolen her father's prized magic mirror, but not that much in later instances.
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* SlapSlapKiss: The two heroes, Bai Xiao-feng and Wen Jian-feng (the LoveInterrest LoveInterest of each other) spends as much time duelling each other as they did fighting evil together. It's somewhat justified the first time however, as she suspects that he had stolen her father's prized magic mirror, but not that much in later instances.
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* AcidPool: The Bloody Ghouls Clan have one of these in their hideout. As does the Emperor's Mausoleum, where [[spoiler:the titular mirrors are dropped into during the final battle]].
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* BloodierAndGorier: Compared to most Shaw outputs from the 70s.
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Once more, the martial world is in uproar with a new, dangerous villainess hell-bent on the massacre of entire clans: the vile, power-hungry Jiuxian Witch who leads the Bloody Ghouls Clan, a legion of ruthless marauders, seeks two enchanted mirrors, the Wind Mirror and Thunder Mirror, two artifacts under the ownership of the respected Bai Clan and Wen Clan, where both mirrors are required for her to unlock the Emperor's Vault, storing a powerful Weapon called the Emperor's Fish Intestines Sword (YES, that's seriously its name) which will make her invincible. But the mirrors are well-kept in the vaults of each clan, and failing to locate them, the Jiuxian Witch will stop at nothing to have the artifacts uncovered, her minions' killing spree leaving behind scores and scores of dead bodies and turning the world of kung-fu in an uproar.
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Once more, the martial world is in uproar with a new, dangerous villainess hell-bent on the massacre of entire clans: the vile, power-hungry Jiuxian Witch who leads the Bloody Ghouls Clan, a legion of ruthless marauders, seeks two enchanted mirrors, the Wind Mirror and Thunder Mirror, two artifacts under the ownership of the respected Bai Clan and Wen Clan, where both mirrors are required for her to unlock the Emperor's Vault, storing an ancient, thousand-year-old Ganonderma capable of granting immortality, and a powerful Weapon called the Emperor's Fish Intestines Sword (YES, that's seriously its name) which will make her invincible. But the mirrors are well-kept in the vaults of each clan, and failing to locate them, the Jiuxian Witch will stop at nothing to have the artifacts uncovered, her minions' killing spree leaving behind scores and scores of dead bodies and turning the world of kung-fu in an uproar.
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* EvilGloating: The Jiuxian Witch, all the time.
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* ImpromptuTracheotomy: The Bloody Ghoul mooks tries to ambush Wen Jian-feng while he's sleeping with his comrades in the hall of an abandoned temple, by sticking a hollow bamboo pipe and blowing knockout gas. Wen however awakes, notice something's amiss, and shoves a palm into the pipe, which went ''through'' the blower's esophagus. With gory results.
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* AlmostDeadGuy: Wan Xing-he survives his battle against the Jiu-xian Witch, despite being mortally wounded, and lives long enough to warn Master Bai of the Witch's arrival.
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* OffWithHisHead: Early in the film, the Seven swordsman kills off a bunch of unfortunate guards, and as the last of them tried fleeing to raise an alarm he gets his head sliced off.
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* ExtraEyes: The Jiuxian Witch has an extra eye on her forehead, for reasons never explained in the film.
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* ThirdEye: The Jiuxian Witch has an extra eye on her forehead, for reasons never explained in the film.
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* NoTimeToExplain: When the heroes, Bai Xiao-feng and Wen Jian-feng, rushes to help Master Bai, knowing that Deputy Leng, the traitor, is going to assassinate him...[[spoiler: and then realizing their assistance isn't needed since Master Wen's disability is faked, and he had single-handedly killed the traitor by himself]]. [[spoiler: Master Bai simply tells his daughter he'll explain on their way to confront the Jiuxian Witch for the finale]].
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[[caption-width-right:350:Taking a break to pose for the camera, in-between killing a few hundred mooks, Shaw Brothers-style.]]
''The Devil's Mirror'' is a 1972 {{wuxia}} directed by Sun Chung, one of the many films of its kind produced by Creator/ShawBrothers… and among the goriest. Seems like there's a clearance for fake blood in 1972, considering that's the same year the Shaws made ''Film/TheCasino'' and ''Film/TheImperialSwordsman'', and oh boy is it simply ''glorious''.
Once more, the martial world is in uproar with a new, dangerous villainess hell-bent on the massacre of entire clans: the vile, power-hungry Jiuxian Witch who leads the Bloody Ghouls Clan, a legion of ruthless marauders, seeks two enchanted mirrors, the Wind Mirror and Thunder Mirror, two artifacts under the ownership of the respected Bai Clan and Wen Clan, where both mirrors are required for her to unlock the Emperor's Vault, storing a powerful Weapon called the Emperor's Fish Intestines Sword (YES, that's seriously its name) which will make her invincible. But the mirrors are well-kept in the vaults of each clan, and failing to locate them, the Jiuxian Witch will stop at nothing to have the artifacts uncovered, her minions' killing spree leaving behind scores and scores of dead bodies and turning the world of kung-fu in an uproar.
Two heroes are out to stop this deadly villainess. Bai Xiaofeng, daughter of the Bai Clan (played by Shu Pei-pei) and Wen Jianfeng, son of the Wen Clan (played by Shaw B-lister Lau Dan who somewhat faded from popularity after this movie) are on-off lovers, and when Wen Jianfeng gets framed for the theft of the Thunder Mirror, he will attempt to uncover the truth while being hunted by all martial sects...
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!! The Devil's Mirror contain examples of:
* AbsurdlySharpBlade: The evil Jiuxian Witch managed to grab hold of the Emperor's Fish Intestines Sword and wield it, the first thing she did which is breaking Bai Xiao-feng and Wen Jian-feng's swords with a single sweep.
* AncientTomb: The Emperor's Mausoleum where the Fish Intestines Sword is kept, guarded by a spell that can only be broken by combining the Wind Mirror and Thunder Mirror together. The Jiuxian Witch and her army of underlings managed to breach its entrance while leaving behind mooks to ambush the heroes, with the finale being Bai Xiao-feng, Wen Jian-feng and Master Bai battling the Witch and her horde of underlings in the crypts.
* TheBaroness: The vile Jiuxian Witch who leads the Bloody Ghouls Clan serves as the film's BigBad.
* BattleCouple: Bai Xiao-feng and Wen Jian-feng throughout the film, slicing up entire ''legions'' of faceless mooks.
* BewareTheSkullBase: The lair of the Jiuxian witch is filled with skull motifs, including the doors leading to her inner sanctums which is a massive skull mouth. Even her throne is located in the nose and mouth of a massive skull sculpture, with two burning torches in place of eyes! [[https://149357165.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/devilsmirror_1.jpg Yeah, really]].
* BloodFromTheMouth: Victims poisoned by the Witch's Corpse Worm Pills, when the Witch refuse to undo the poison, will die in this manner. And then there's [[spoiler: the Witch herself after breaking through the enchantment locking the Emperor's Tomb using the titular mirrors, only to suffer an internal bleeding in the process]].
* CaveMouth: The cave lair of the Jiuxian Witch has its entrance being a skull-like mouth.
* ChainPain: Unlike most of the heroes, Master Bai instead fights with a chain made of gold circlets, which he can transform alternately as a whip, a chain for strangling enemies, or even solidify it enough to become another sword! [[spoiler: He managed to impaled the Jiuxian Witch using the third form towards the end of the film]].
* CoolOldGuy: Master Bai, the lord of the Bai clan and Bai Xiao-feng's father, an elderly kung-fu master who can still kick all sorts of ass... with only one leg! [[spoiler: Of course then again he's faking his disability]].
* CoolSword: A standard practice for ''wuxia''. The Emperor's Fish Intestines Sword is an enchanted ancient blade hidden in the Emperor's Tomb, which the Jiuxian Witch spends the whole movie trying to retrieve and unlock its powers.
* CurbStompBattle: This ''wuxia'' probably had the most amount of one-sided battles
* DismembermentIsCheap: Master Bai's left leg may be severed and replaced with a metal peg leg, but it doesn't stop him from kicking ass and leaping all over the place in classic ''wuxia'' manner. [[spoiler: Of course, the fact that his left leg was NOT actually severed and he practically faked his injury to flush out a traitor in his clan, helps]].
* EliteMooks: The personal guards of the Jiuxian Witch are clad in red instead of the usual black, fights bare-chested, and can be identified by their long, flowing red or white hair. They also put up a slightly better fight than her common mooks, although they fared barely any better against the heroes in the finale.
* ExtraEyes: The Jiuxian Witch has an extra eye on her forehead, for reasons never explained in the film.
* EvilGloating: The Jiuxian Witch, all the time.
* FacialHorror: The victims poisoned by the Jiuxian Witch and her Corpse Worm Pills will have their faces ''melted alive'', with extreme agony.
* ForcedIntoEvil: The Seven Disfigured Swordsmen who serves the evil Jiuxian Witch are practically ''forced'' to be her servants, having suffered the effects of her Corpse Worm Pills. They will die within days unless they consumed the antidote from the Witch, which will stop the poison from spreading... for a few weeks. Then they must return to serve her, or the poison's effect returns, and so on.
* ForcedToWatch: After Wen Jian-Feng gets captured alive by the Jiuxian Witch and Deputy Leng, and refuses to surrender, the Witch decides to have him strung to a rack and make him watch as she instructs the Deputy to poison two MauveShirt heroes which are Jian-Feng's friends, by ForceFeeding both victims Corpse Worm Pills causing their faces and bodies to dissolve.
* HandicappedBadass: Master Bai, an elderly warrior who lose a leg in battle years ago and walks with a left leg made of metal, but can still kick all kinds of ass with a sword-crutch, as well as using the pointed tip of his prosthetic leg to stab and impale enemies. [[spoiler: But then again, he's not as handicapped as he seemed]].
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: The last two disfigured swordsmen, having served the Jiuxian Witch long enough, eventually decides to turn against her, firstly by saving the heroes Bai Xiao-feng and Wen Jian-feng before the Witch can force the Corpse Worm Pills into them, releasing both heroes from the dungeon. They both died after the Jiuxian Witch and her lackey, Constable Leng, caught up, but at least they died as heroes]].
* HighPressureBlood: The Shaws must've gotten a really, really, ''really'' good bargain on cheap red sauce for this film! The amount of blood and gore that accompanies each and every of its 200-ish onscreen deaths is ''amazing''. Especially for [[spoiler: Master Wen, father of Wen Jian-feng]], who upon being poisoned by the Jiuxian Witch, then gets seven swords from various mooks thrushed from all around him. Resulting in a literal ''geyser'' of red sauce that reaches the ceiling.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: How Deputy Leng died in the hands of Master Bai, while trying to kill him. Impaled on Bai's metal leg, no less! ... and then said metal leg turns out to be hiding Bai's ''true, unsevered'' right leg]].
* ImpairmentShot: Victims poisoned by the Jiuxian Witch and her Corpse Worm pills will start staggering in a daze, with the camera jerkily tilting and fuzzing from their point-of-view.
* InASingleBound: Most of the named characters. The Jiuxian Witch, Bai Xiao-feng, Wen Jian-feng, Deputy Leng, Master Bai (despite having only one leg!) in classical ''wuxia'' fashion.
* InvincibleVillain: The Jiuxian Witch might be one of the most overpowered villains in Shaw Brothers ''wuxia'' (and that's saying a lot!), easily slaughtering named characters and overpowering entire armies of redshirts with ease in her unstoppable rampage for domination. The ''only'' reason the heroes, consisting of Bai Xiaofeng, Wen Jianfeng and Master Bai combining their powers, managed to stand a chance against her in the finale is because the Witch had [[WorfHadTheFlu spent much of her life-force in order to overpower the mausoleum's defenses and is internally injured]]. [[spoiler: Even then, they still ''barely'' managed to win, with Master Bai giving his life for the heroes]].
* MagicMirror: The Wind Mirror and Thunder Mirror, two ancient artifacts held by the two seniors of the martial world, Master Wen and Master Bai, which the vile Jiuxian Witch seeks. Because using those mirrors she can uncover the Emperor's Tomb, guarded by an enchanted lock, allowing her to retrieve the Emperor's Sword and dominate the martial world.
* TheMole: Deputy Leng, supposedly the sworn brother of Master Bai and NumberTwo of the Bai clan, secretly serves the Jiuxian Witch. He's also her lover... or so he thought.
* MasterSwordsman: It's a ''wuxia'', and the martial world is filled '''to the brim''' with expert swordfighters. Including the heroes Bai Xiao-feng and Wen Jian-feng, the powerful Villainess Jiuxian Witch, Deputy Leng Xun, the Witch's MookLieutenant underlings, and so on.
* MutualKill: The climatic final battle ends with [[spoiler: Master Bai and the Jiuxian Witch]] impaling each other through the hearts with their respective weapons.
* ObfuscatingDisability: [[spoiler: Master Bai, the HandicappedBadass leader of the Bai clan, is anything ''but'' handicapped. Turns out underneath his metal left leg is a perfectly fine leg, where he had faked his injury to flush out a traitor. Even his daughter Bai Xiao-Feng fell for it]].
* PowerFloats: The Jiuxian Witch can float all over the damn place in numerous fight scenes using the sheer power of her ''qi'', thanks to some impressive wireworks. She tends to gloat consistently while doing so, too, mocking the valiant efforts of heroes trying to (unsuccessfully) defeat her.
* QuirkyMinibossSquad: The Jiuxian Witch has a legion of seven MookLieutenant expert fighters, who serves her directly and carries out theft and assasinations under her orders. Subverted when it turns out they're actually righteous warriors whom are forced into servitude thanks to the Witch poisoning them, where by carrying out her orders she'll prolong their lives.... for a few more weeks.
* SacrificialLion: Wan Xing-he, Wen Jian-feng's follower and TheLancer for the first half of the film, who tags along Jian-Feng throughout the film until he ends up becoming a victim to the Jiuxian Witch, to prove the villainess as a legitimate threat.
* SlapSlapKiss: The two heroes, Bai Xiao-feng and Wen Jian-feng (the LoveInterrest of each other) spends as much time duelling each other as they did fighting evil together. It's somewhat justified the first time however, as she suspects that he had stolen her father's prized magic mirror, but not that much in later instances.
* SwordFight: All over the place, with satisfyingly massive amounts of red sauce being used.
* TheVamp: The Jiuxian Witch gets Deputy Leng to become hopelessly loyal to her via a combination of seducing him with power and sex. It's quite obvious she never saw him as a lover though, [[spoiler: barely even showing any sadness after learning of Deputy Leng's death]].
* {{Wuxia}}: One of the gorier examples.
* YouKilledMyFather: The Jiuxian Witch killed [[spoiler: Master Bai, the father of Bai Xiao-feng, making him swear vengeance]]. And towards the end of the film, [[spoiler: she does the same to Master Wen, father of the heroine Wen Jian-feng, though in this case it's a MutualKill moment]].
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[[caption-width-right:350:Taking a break to pose for the camera, in-between killing a few hundred mooks, Shaw Brothers-style.]]
''The Devil's Mirror'' is a 1972 {{wuxia}} directed by Sun Chung, one of the many films of its kind produced by Creator/ShawBrothers… and among the goriest. Seems like there's a clearance for fake blood in 1972, considering that's the same year the Shaws made ''Film/TheCasino'' and ''Film/TheImperialSwordsman'', and oh boy is it simply ''glorious''.
Once more, the martial world is in uproar with a new, dangerous villainess hell-bent on the massacre of entire clans: the vile, power-hungry Jiuxian Witch who leads the Bloody Ghouls Clan, a legion of ruthless marauders, seeks two enchanted mirrors, the Wind Mirror and Thunder Mirror, two artifacts under the ownership of the respected Bai Clan and Wen Clan, where both mirrors are required for her to unlock the Emperor's Vault, storing a powerful Weapon called the Emperor's Fish Intestines Sword (YES, that's seriously its name) which will make her invincible. But the mirrors are well-kept in the vaults of each clan, and failing to locate them, the Jiuxian Witch will stop at nothing to have the artifacts uncovered, her minions' killing spree leaving behind scores and scores of dead bodies and turning the world of kung-fu in an uproar.
Two heroes are out to stop this deadly villainess. Bai Xiaofeng, daughter of the Bai Clan (played by Shu Pei-pei) and Wen Jianfeng, son of the Wen Clan (played by Shaw B-lister Lau Dan who somewhat faded from popularity after this movie) are on-off lovers, and when Wen Jianfeng gets framed for the theft of the Thunder Mirror, he will attempt to uncover the truth while being hunted by all martial sects...
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!! The Devil's Mirror contain examples of:
* AbsurdlySharpBlade: The evil Jiuxian Witch managed to grab hold of the Emperor's Fish Intestines Sword and wield it, the first thing she did which is breaking Bai Xiao-feng and Wen Jian-feng's swords with a single sweep.
* AncientTomb: The Emperor's Mausoleum where the Fish Intestines Sword is kept, guarded by a spell that can only be broken by combining the Wind Mirror and Thunder Mirror together. The Jiuxian Witch and her army of underlings managed to breach its entrance while leaving behind mooks to ambush the heroes, with the finale being Bai Xiao-feng, Wen Jian-feng and Master Bai battling the Witch and her horde of underlings in the crypts.
* TheBaroness: The vile Jiuxian Witch who leads the Bloody Ghouls Clan serves as the film's BigBad.
* BattleCouple: Bai Xiao-feng and Wen Jian-feng throughout the film, slicing up entire ''legions'' of faceless mooks.
* BewareTheSkullBase: The lair of the Jiuxian witch is filled with skull motifs, including the doors leading to her inner sanctums which is a massive skull mouth. Even her throne is located in the nose and mouth of a massive skull sculpture, with two burning torches in place of eyes! [[https://149357165.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/devilsmirror_1.jpg Yeah, really]].
* BloodFromTheMouth: Victims poisoned by the Witch's Corpse Worm Pills, when the Witch refuse to undo the poison, will die in this manner. And then there's [[spoiler: the Witch herself after breaking through the enchantment locking the Emperor's Tomb using the titular mirrors, only to suffer an internal bleeding in the process]].
* CaveMouth: The cave lair of the Jiuxian Witch has its entrance being a skull-like mouth.
* ChainPain: Unlike most of the heroes, Master Bai instead fights with a chain made of gold circlets, which he can transform alternately as a whip, a chain for strangling enemies, or even solidify it enough to become another sword! [[spoiler: He managed to impaled the Jiuxian Witch using the third form towards the end of the film]].
* CoolOldGuy: Master Bai, the lord of the Bai clan and Bai Xiao-feng's father, an elderly kung-fu master who can still kick all sorts of ass... with only one leg! [[spoiler: Of course then again he's faking his disability]].
* CoolSword: A standard practice for ''wuxia''. The Emperor's Fish Intestines Sword is an enchanted ancient blade hidden in the Emperor's Tomb, which the Jiuxian Witch spends the whole movie trying to retrieve and unlock its powers.
* CurbStompBattle: This ''wuxia'' probably had the most amount of one-sided battles
* DismembermentIsCheap: Master Bai's left leg may be severed and replaced with a metal peg leg, but it doesn't stop him from kicking ass and leaping all over the place in classic ''wuxia'' manner. [[spoiler: Of course, the fact that his left leg was NOT actually severed and he practically faked his injury to flush out a traitor in his clan, helps]].
* EliteMooks: The personal guards of the Jiuxian Witch are clad in red instead of the usual black, fights bare-chested, and can be identified by their long, flowing red or white hair. They also put up a slightly better fight than her common mooks, although they fared barely any better against the heroes in the finale.
* ExtraEyes: The Jiuxian Witch has an extra eye on her forehead, for reasons never explained in the film.
* EvilGloating: The Jiuxian Witch, all the time.
* FacialHorror: The victims poisoned by the Jiuxian Witch and her Corpse Worm Pills will have their faces ''melted alive'', with extreme agony.
* ForcedIntoEvil: The Seven Disfigured Swordsmen who serves the evil Jiuxian Witch are practically ''forced'' to be her servants, having suffered the effects of her Corpse Worm Pills. They will die within days unless they consumed the antidote from the Witch, which will stop the poison from spreading... for a few weeks. Then they must return to serve her, or the poison's effect returns, and so on.
* ForcedToWatch: After Wen Jian-Feng gets captured alive by the Jiuxian Witch and Deputy Leng, and refuses to surrender, the Witch decides to have him strung to a rack and make him watch as she instructs the Deputy to poison two MauveShirt heroes which are Jian-Feng's friends, by ForceFeeding both victims Corpse Worm Pills causing their faces and bodies to dissolve.
* HandicappedBadass: Master Bai, an elderly warrior who lose a leg in battle years ago and walks with a left leg made of metal, but can still kick all kinds of ass with a sword-crutch, as well as using the pointed tip of his prosthetic leg to stab and impale enemies. [[spoiler: But then again, he's not as handicapped as he seemed]].
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: The last two disfigured swordsmen, having served the Jiuxian Witch long enough, eventually decides to turn against her, firstly by saving the heroes Bai Xiao-feng and Wen Jian-feng before the Witch can force the Corpse Worm Pills into them, releasing both heroes from the dungeon. They both died after the Jiuxian Witch and her lackey, Constable Leng, caught up, but at least they died as heroes]].
* HighPressureBlood: The Shaws must've gotten a really, really, ''really'' good bargain on cheap red sauce for this film! The amount of blood and gore that accompanies each and every of its 200-ish onscreen deaths is ''amazing''. Especially for [[spoiler: Master Wen, father of Wen Jian-feng]], who upon being poisoned by the Jiuxian Witch, then gets seven swords from various mooks thrushed from all around him. Resulting in a literal ''geyser'' of red sauce that reaches the ceiling.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: How Deputy Leng died in the hands of Master Bai, while trying to kill him. Impaled on Bai's metal leg, no less! ... and then said metal leg turns out to be hiding Bai's ''true, unsevered'' right leg]].
* ImpairmentShot: Victims poisoned by the Jiuxian Witch and her Corpse Worm pills will start staggering in a daze, with the camera jerkily tilting and fuzzing from their point-of-view.
* InASingleBound: Most of the named characters. The Jiuxian Witch, Bai Xiao-feng, Wen Jian-feng, Deputy Leng, Master Bai (despite having only one leg!) in classical ''wuxia'' fashion.
* InvincibleVillain: The Jiuxian Witch might be one of the most overpowered villains in Shaw Brothers ''wuxia'' (and that's saying a lot!), easily slaughtering named characters and overpowering entire armies of redshirts with ease in her unstoppable rampage for domination. The ''only'' reason the heroes, consisting of Bai Xiaofeng, Wen Jianfeng and Master Bai combining their powers, managed to stand a chance against her in the finale is because the Witch had [[WorfHadTheFlu spent much of her life-force in order to overpower the mausoleum's defenses and is internally injured]]. [[spoiler: Even then, they still ''barely'' managed to win, with Master Bai giving his life for the heroes]].
* MagicMirror: The Wind Mirror and Thunder Mirror, two ancient artifacts held by the two seniors of the martial world, Master Wen and Master Bai, which the vile Jiuxian Witch seeks. Because using those mirrors she can uncover the Emperor's Tomb, guarded by an enchanted lock, allowing her to retrieve the Emperor's Sword and dominate the martial world.
* TheMole: Deputy Leng, supposedly the sworn brother of Master Bai and NumberTwo of the Bai clan, secretly serves the Jiuxian Witch. He's also her lover... or so he thought.
* MasterSwordsman: It's a ''wuxia'', and the martial world is filled '''to the brim''' with expert swordfighters. Including the heroes Bai Xiao-feng and Wen Jian-feng, the powerful Villainess Jiuxian Witch, Deputy Leng Xun, the Witch's MookLieutenant underlings, and so on.
* MutualKill: The climatic final battle ends with [[spoiler: Master Bai and the Jiuxian Witch]] impaling each other through the hearts with their respective weapons.
* ObfuscatingDisability: [[spoiler: Master Bai, the HandicappedBadass leader of the Bai clan, is anything ''but'' handicapped. Turns out underneath his metal left leg is a perfectly fine leg, where he had faked his injury to flush out a traitor. Even his daughter Bai Xiao-Feng fell for it]].
* PowerFloats: The Jiuxian Witch can float all over the damn place in numerous fight scenes using the sheer power of her ''qi'', thanks to some impressive wireworks. She tends to gloat consistently while doing so, too, mocking the valiant efforts of heroes trying to (unsuccessfully) defeat her.
* QuirkyMinibossSquad: The Jiuxian Witch has a legion of seven MookLieutenant expert fighters, who serves her directly and carries out theft and assasinations under her orders. Subverted when it turns out they're actually righteous warriors whom are forced into servitude thanks to the Witch poisoning them, where by carrying out her orders she'll prolong their lives.... for a few more weeks.
* SacrificialLion: Wan Xing-he, Wen Jian-feng's follower and TheLancer for the first half of the film, who tags along Jian-Feng throughout the film until he ends up becoming a victim to the Jiuxian Witch, to prove the villainess as a legitimate threat.
* SlapSlapKiss: The two heroes, Bai Xiao-feng and Wen Jian-feng (the LoveInterrest of each other) spends as much time duelling each other as they did fighting evil together. It's somewhat justified the first time however, as she suspects that he had stolen her father's prized magic mirror, but not that much in later instances.
* SwordFight: All over the place, with satisfyingly massive amounts of red sauce being used.
* TheVamp: The Jiuxian Witch gets Deputy Leng to become hopelessly loyal to her via a combination of seducing him with power and sex. It's quite obvious she never saw him as a lover though, [[spoiler: barely even showing any sadness after learning of Deputy Leng's death]].
* {{Wuxia}}: One of the gorier examples.
* YouKilledMyFather: The Jiuxian Witch killed [[spoiler: Master Bai, the father of Bai Xiao-feng, making him swear vengeance]]. And towards the end of the film, [[spoiler: she does the same to Master Wen, father of the heroine Wen Jian-feng, though in this case it's a MutualKill moment]].
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