About as nonsensical, wild, and weird as The Seventh Curse but much less engaging. As a practical effects extravaganza - stop motion dino terrors, slopping gore, giant hell demons, Cronenberg-esque transformations, fireballs, lasers, blue screen - Peacock King is wonderful. A kung-fu fight against a mutated devil with telescoping claw limbs and a venus-fly-trap face is the stuff you’re only going to see in a Lam Nai-Choi film. You also get a battle between Yuen Biao and Gordon Liu, which would make any film worth watching.
But I couldn’t care less about the plot happening between the effects-driven supernatural insanity. The story of hell gates, evil witches, and monk brothers plays out like repetitive mad libs filler to justify the next eruption of weirdness. To be fair, The Seventh Curse walked a similar path, but its plot delivered an adventure that was constantly reinventing itself every five minutes. The terrible dubbing In Peacock King likely didn’t help the experience.