SYNOPSIS 

Malcolm Hutchins, an early 20’s cowboy, fails to stop Tong Hatchet Men from kidnapping his 14-year-old sister, Rose, as they stroll to a cattle auction through the San Francisco Barbary Coast. He barely survives the ambush and is left for dead with a gruesome hatchet gash on his face - a permanent reminder of his catastrophic blunder and festering guilt.

While recuperating on his family’s cattle ranch near Mt. Shasta and planning his rescue expedition with his blood brother White Crow, leader of the Okwanuchu and masters of black obsidian hatchet weaponry, his home is incinerated and parents burned alive by highwaymen.

Filled with shame and rage, Malcolm, who learned White Crane Kung Fu from a drifter on his ranch, the Werewolf Shaolin Monk Grand Master, rushes back to San Francisco and ferociously hunts for Rose using his dual black blades of justice in self defense as he mercilessly slaughters Hatchet Men, gangsters, posses and elite Tong warriors who stand in his way.

A benefit of his mission are dozens of young girls are saved from the back-alley sex traffickers. Just as he closes-in on the Pale Devil – the nasty Shanghai Green Dragon albino Tong enforcer who oversees the Barbary Coast gangs – and the killer who engraved the Black Hatchet's face while kidnapping Rose – an 8.3 earthquake pulverizes the metropolis followed by a four-day inferno that scorches it to near annihilation.

As he cuts through the flaming rubble reviving his pursuit of the Pale Devil, the Black Hatchet is enlisted to fight the fires. Ironically, the burning hotel they are called to save is also the next clue in the search. But first, he saves three kids trapped on the third floor, heroically free climbing the exterior, then throwing them out the window to fireman below. Then the Black Hatchet rushes back into the raging building finds the trap door to an underground lair as it implodes.

Miraculously he survives, plunging into the secret network of passages. Bruised and battered, as the Black Hatchet searches for an escape, fate guides him to the Pale Devil, trapped in the hideout on his way to Shanghai with three captured girls and the Werewolf Monk, a wanted outlaw with a bounty on his head.

To the Black Hatchet’s elation, Rose is one of the girls. As they face off, the Pale Devil reveals he hired Black Bart’s gang to incinerate his house. This is the catalyst for the Black Hatchet and an epic, bloody, Hatchet Fu battle ensues. Simultaneously, the Werewolf Monk brawls with the other Hatchet Men. Just when it seems the Pale Devil has the Black Hatchet dead-to-rights, Rose intervenes and saves her brother.

Rose and the Black Hatchet barely escape the subterranean lair as it fills with water that sucks the Werewolf Monk into the savage current. Above ground is a hurricane of flames as the Black Hatchet sets his sights on reuniting with his girlfriend nurse Lorna but finds what appears to be her corpse in the rubble of her hospital.

Now Rose is near exhaustion, so the Black Hatchet steals a Trooper’s horse and gallops through the maze of scorched ruins, trailed by another Trooper shooting at them. Once they trick the Trooper, they ride to safety at Cathedral Hill, just as the fire is beaten back, where nurses treat victims and survivors.

Just as the Black Hatchet gives Rose to the nurses, a flame is spotted on the tower of a church. Then the Black Hatchet performs a dangerous, breathtaking, acrobatic maneuver, free climbing the stone tower and putting the flames out, saving the remaining city from igniting. Then he falls from the tower.

When he awakens, the Black Hatchet tearfully celebrates in the arms of Lorna, as each thought the other had perished in the disaster. Yet, as the sun rises over the smoky, skeletal city, the Black Hatchet knows he must bring to justice Black Bart, who murdered his parents, then go to Shanghai and cut off the head of the Green Dragon, because he knows he, his sister and his fiancée Lorna are not safe as long as the Tong lord is alive.