Zeegrade Zombie Vs. Ninja ranks up there with "I Eat your Skin" as far as misleading movie titles are concerned. At no point whatsoever is there any combat between said opponents. As a matter of fact both the Zombies and the Ninjas appear to be in two separate movies pasted together into one Godfrey Ho clusterf......film. The bulk of the movie concerns a man named Ethan who is beaten up during a robbery of family gold which ultimately leads to the death of his father. The thieves work for the typical kung-fu badguy here named Titus. After mistakenly thought for dead an undertaker/kung fu master (I know! Who would of thought!) accepts Ethan as his apprentice. The undertaker, called simply Master T, I think, employs an unusual style of training as he can summon zombies in order to sharpen his kung-fu skills. The story follows the standard kung-fu checklist as eventually Ethan becomes adept enough to fight his father's killers. Where the Ninjas fit in is another story. Ethan's storyline seems to come from the movie called "Gravedigger". The Ninjas are filmed separately from the main movie and come in the form of a bunch of Caucasian men with very Asian sounding names like Duncan, Bob, Ian and Bert. Leading the way is Godfrey Ho weapon of choice Pierre Kirby as the Dragon. It is beyond asinine to watch Kirby pretend to talk to Ethan and Master T when the backgrounds behind him don't even begin to match. The sheer goofiness of the Ninja outfits complete with "NINJA" headbands and gaudy outfits make you feel sorry for these guys rather than be in awe of them. Nothing screams badass ninja like yellow undergarments. Watching all of these white guys prance around a forest preserve role playing ninja vs. ninja made me think I was watching a corporate getaway to promote "team players". It's just beyond bizarre to watch.

dbborroughs Godfrey Ho clip job film where new footage of white guys wearing head bands that say "ninja" on them are inter-cut with footage from what looks to be a decent kung fu film. The footage never matches and the resulting story makes no sense. Its a shame that Godfrey Ho has had his clip job films become more readily available to film viewers in the West since most of the films that he's cut up and rearranged were actually pretty good films to begin with. Since its hard to track down the full version of the film people are going to think that the stinkers are the way things really are. As for me I just try to avoid anything by Ho since if I see his name in the credits I know its awful.

herschelj_krustofsky While I agree with a lot of comments on this movie (YES it's bad, YES it's spliced together and somewhat baffling), it IS most certainly watchable. It is not 'gouge-your-eyes-out bad'. If you're a fan of old Kung fu movies, and have a sense of humour, you will probably love it. Whatever vintage Kung fu movie is featured in "Zombie Rival" it's actually pretty good, I'd like to track it down. Those scenes are enjoyable. But the newer (presumably 1980's) ninja scenes are also enjoyable - comedy gold. The outfits. The headbands. The mustaches. The dialogue.. in between sword clashes they say things like "I told you... the dragon's fire burns HOT!" Here in the UK you can get this on DVD for Five Pounds or less, under the title "Zombie Rivals". I own it on oldschool big-box rental VHS, under the title "Zombie Rival: The Super Ninja Master". The video cover has a painting of a barbarian on the front. Seriously. A barbarian.Update: The vintage Kung Fu movie is called "Gravedigger". Yay!

Chris Barry I can't believe they credited this movie to Godfrey Ho. Now Ho is not exactly a great auteur, but if I was him, I'd sue for defamation. Half of this movie is an actual (probably terrible) Hong Kong kung-fu flick, the rest is comprised of footage that looks like it was shot somewhere in Utah with costumes that came from the dollar store. Did I mention all of this footage is shot on a consumer level VHS camcorder? The white Caucasion ninjas are, as others have pointed out, literally dressed in garbage bags, and not good ones either. The best is when characters from the Hong Kong film are cut to look as if they're interacting with the Caucasions. The reaction shots are priceless.Imagine Redneck Zombies, Mulva: Zombie Ass Kicker or A Night to Dismember, then take yourself WAAAYYY down a couple of hundred notches and you're still not even close to imagining how unbelievably poor this movie is.Zombie Vs. Ninja: Guess who wins? Not the viewer that's for sure.