Hong Kong Ghost Stories

Hong Kong Ghost Stories

7 Episodes

When the feverishly over-the-top imagination of Hong Kong genre cinema meets the supernatural, anything can happen. Featuring hopping vampires (ENCOUNTERS OF THE SPOOKY KIND, MR. VAMPIRE), demonic felines (EVIL CAT), seductive ghosts (A CHINESE GHOST STORY), and all manner of otherworldly mischief-makers, these outrageous fantasies blend horror, comedy, action, melodrama, and awesomely old-school special effects with the gleeful abandon that only the Hong Kong film industry in its prime would have dared to attempt.

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Hong Kong Ghost Stories

7 Episodes

  • Evil Cat
    1:31:06
    Evil Cat
    Episode 1

    Evil Cat

    Episode 1

    Directed by Dennis Yu • 1987 • Hong Kong
    Starring Lau Kar-leung, Tang Lai Ying, Mark Cheng

    Bonkers even by the anything-goes standards of Hong Kong genre cinema, this head-spinning killer-kitty horror comedy bursts with outrageous supernatural shenanigans and off-the-wall action. Every fifty yea...

  • Encounters of the Spooky Kind
    1:43:51
    Encounters of the Spooky Kind
    Episode 2

    Encounters of the Spooky Kind

    Episode 2

    Directed by Sammo Hung • 1980 • Hong Kong
    Starring Sammo Hung, Paul Chung Fat, Wu Ma

    The great Sammo Hung wrote, directed, and stars in this outrageously entertaining Hong Kong cinema landmark—one of the first HK horror-comedy-action hybrids and the film that launched the hopping-vampire craze t...

  • Mr. Vampire
    1:39:43
    Mr. Vampire
    Episode 3

    Mr. Vampire

    Episode 3

    Directed by Ricky Lau • 1985 • Hong Kong
    Starring Lam Ching-Ying, Ricky Hui, Chin Siu-Ho

    The film that, along with producer Sammo Hung’s SPOOKY ENCOUNTERS, launched an entire hopping-vampire horror-comedy subgenre is Hong Kong cinema at its most gleefully inventive and gloriously unrestrained. T...

  • Mr. Vampire II
    1:30:02
    Mr. Vampire II
    Episode 4

    Mr. Vampire II

    Episode 4

    Directed by Ricky Lau • 1986 • Hong Kong
    Starring Lam Ching-Ying, Yuen Biao, Moon Lee Choi-Fung

    The first of the numerous sequels to follow in the wake of the blockbuster success of MR. VAMPIRE puts a fresh twist on the hopping-vampire mythology by bringing the bounding baddies into the present ...

  • Mr. Vampire III
    1:33:12
    Mr. Vampire III
    Episode 5

    Mr. Vampire III

    Episode 5

    Directed by Ricky Lau • 1987 • Hong Kong
    Starring Lam Ching-Ying, Richard Ng, Billy Lau

    The third installment of the unstoppable MR. VAMPIRE series offers up some of the wildest gags and most eye-popping action in the entire franchise. This time around, we follow the exploits of charlatan ghost ...

  • Mr. Vampire IV
    1:34:27
    Mr. Vampire IV
    Episode 6

    Mr. Vampire IV

    Episode 6

    Directed by Ricky Lau • 1988 • Hong Kong
    Starring Wu Ma, Loletta Lee, Chin Ka-Lok

    The fourth MR. VAMPIRE film may just be the most gloriously goofy of the bunch—and that’s saying something. Leaning heavily into the unrepentantly silly comedy that always made the series so much fun, this installm...

  • Rouge
    1:38:00
    Rouge
    Episode 7

    Rouge

    Episode 7

    Directed by Stanley Kwan • 1987 • Hong Kong
    Starring Anita Mui, Leslie Cheung, Alex Man Chi-leung

    Cantopop superstars Anita Mui and Leslie Cheung display the androgynous magnetism that made them icons as doomed lovers in this emblematic film of Hong Kong’s Second New Wave, directed by pioneering...

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