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 years, a male from the Cheung family must defeat a demonic cat spirit lest it spread mayhem across Hong Kong. Now, dying and with no male heir, the current Master Cheung (Lau Kar-leung) must race against time to find a successor as the ferocious feline unleashes nine lives’ worth of terror.
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Encounters of the Spooky Kind
Directed by Sammo Hung • 1980 • Hong Kong
Starring Sammo Hung, Paul Chung Fat, Wu MaThe 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...
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Mr. Vampire
Directed by Ricky Lau • 1985 • Hong Kong
Starring Lam Ching-Ying, Ricky Hui, Chin Siu-HoThe 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...
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Mr. Vampire II
Directed by Ricky Lau • 1986 • Hong Kong
Starring Lam Ching-Ying, Yuen Biao, Moon Lee Choi-FungThe 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 ...
