Martial-arts used against the Undead has some precedent in the indie film world, for example, ‘God of Vampires’ made the film circuit a few years ago (we caught it at The Dark Carnival), and it was certainly a labor of love, mixing action movie kung-fu with Chinese vampires, though it wasn’t at all friendly to the Differently Animated.

I’ve also seen more specifically Anti-Zombie media mixed with marital arts in tabletop gaming. Still, when I read about ‘Project Purgatory Beijing’ I had to concede, I hadn’t seen it on film… now that I’ve watched the preview, I really, really wish I still hadn’t:

Martial Arts mayhem, combined with gamer style action meets the Zombie Apocalypse in a full out war against the undead in “Project Purgatory Beijing.” China, a deadly designer virus has decimated the country leaving very few people alive. A side effect of the virus has turned the dead into raging, savage cannibals, and they’re hungry. A handful of survivors lead by Team Z; is a group of deadly mercenaries that have been elected to protect the last remaining citizens of the “compound.”

Up front I’m going to issue a sincere warning; people with epilepsy, or who are prone to migraines or motion-sickness, should NOT watch this movie. It is crammed to the brim with digital effects, rapid cuts, flashes of light and noise, easily the most overproduced thing I’ve seen in years.

It’s also virulently Anti-Zombie, as one might expect. However, the oddest thing for me was the way the film messes up some very simple math.

For example, the introductory exposition (love a movie that starts with a speech btw) says that the ‘virus’ that causes this particular Zombie Apocalypse has a ’99% kill rate’ but leaves 12 million people alive on the planet.

Err… there are almost 7 billion people on Earth. 6.92 billion says the U.S. Census. 1% of that is 69.2 million, not 12.

Honestly, this was obviously put together on a computer, I’m sure the OS had a calculator. Use it next time, ok?

From there the narrator explains that 75% of THAT number of survivors, 12 million (or 69 in the real world where math works) turned into this film’s version of Zombies, who ate ‘more than 3/4s’ of the remaining Living survivors.

So that makes 9 million ‘Radvics’ eating all but 750,000 Living people on Earth, or, if you use actual math like I did,
51.75 million Radvics eating all but 4.31 million Living people.

And only at THAT point did the governments of the world settle on a strategy: nuke all the cities.

*groan*

Believe it or not, the film’s worse. The characters are a hodgepodge of martial arts and just plain weird stereotyping; you have a ninja, a soldier, a Country/cowboy guy (who wears a cowboy hat, fights with a revolver and carries his guitar everywhere he goes), various tough dudes and even, yes, a woman who fights using some form of martial arts that allows her to turn a scarf into a lethal weapon, at one point even making it into a sword.

Yes, really; she turns a scarf into a sword. You might need liquor to get through this one, boys and girls.

You can see the first 11 minutes of this movie embedded below, assuming you don’t have any of the health conditions I mentioned above, in which case, please don’t expose yourself to unnecessary risk. It’s hard enough to slog through this preview without having a seizure.

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