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 that would proliferate throughout the 1980s. He plays a fearless but naive rickshaw driver who is tricked into spending the night at a haunted temple—not knowing that the whole thing is a set up by his adulterous wife’s lover to kill him! Ghosts, zombies, and, yes, the OG hopping vampire (played by Yuen Biao) are all on hand in an eerily atmospheric showcase for Hung’s ingenious comic-action choreography.
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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 ...
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Mr. Vampire III
Directed by Ricky Lau • 1987 • Hong Kong
Starring Lam Ching-Ying, Richard Ng, Billy LauThe 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 ...
