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The Last Dance
(Po Dei Juk,
破·地獄)

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Post date November 15 2024
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(Po Dei Juk,
破·地獄)
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Director – Anselm Chan – 2024 – Hong Kong – Cert. 12a – 130m (extended version – Cert. 15 – 140m) **** (regular version) / unseen (extended version) A failed, professional wedding planner joins a Taoist funeral director as a partner in his company as various crises come to a head in the latter’s family […]

Tags ambulance, Anselm Chan, baptismal class, belief system, bereavement, Breaking Hell’s Gates, business partner, casual sex, Catherine Chau, Catholic, Catholic school, Catholicism, co-worker, community, company, culture, Dayo Wong, death, deceased soul, Elaine Jin, failure, family, family duty, fathers and children, fiery sword, funeral director, funeral directors, funeral parlour, grief, Hong Kong, male-oriented, menstruation, Mexican stand-off, Michael Hui, Michelle Wai, paramedic, Paul Chun, personal demons, priest, professional, reincarnation, religion, religious, retirement, ritual, ritually unclean, robe, shopkeeper, smoker, sons and daughters, subplots, surrogate mother, sword, taboo, Tags: Hong Kong, Taoism, Taoist priest, Thor Lok, Tommy Chu, undertaker, wedding planner

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Vampire
Vs
Vampire
(Yi Mei Dao Ren,
一眉道人)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date May 31 2023
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Vs
Vampire
(Yi Mei Dao Ren,
一眉道人)
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Director – Lam Ching-ying – 1989 – Hong Kong – Cert. 15 – 87m ***1/2 A Taoist priest must defeat various supernatural forces including a Western-style vampire occupying a coffin in an old church – out on Blu-ray in the UK on Monday, May 22nd as part of Eureka! Video’s Hopping Mad: The Mr. Vampire […]

Tags action, assistant, banana tree sprit, bats, Billy Lau, boyfriend, brothel, burning up, candles, Chan Suet-man, child, chills, Chin Siu-ho, church, church roof infestation, colonialism, comedy, corpse, cross, East and West, excrement, female vampire, Fong (Lui Fong, ghost, gothic, gothic female vampire, Hammer Films, Hong Kong, hopping corpse, jiangshi, Joanna Chan, Lam Ching-ying, Lam Jing Wa, Maria Cordero, mayhem, mirror, missionary Christianity, moonlight, mother superior, Mr. Vampire, nuns, period, priest, proselytise, red candles, red dress, red rope, Regina Kent, rope bridge, Sandra Ng, slapstick, sound effects, spooky, stake, stunts, sunlight, supernatural, swamp, Taoist priest, teeth, thrills, Tom And Jerry, tomb, undead corpses, vampire, vampire lore, Western vampire lore, Western-style vampire, wire work, Yip So, Yuen Biao

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Mr. Vampire IV
aka
Mr. Vampire
Saga IV
(Geung See
Suk Suk,
靈幻先生)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date May 28 2023
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aka
Mr. Vampire
Saga IV
(Geung See
Suk Suk,
靈幻先生)
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Director – Ricky Lau – 1988 – Hong Kong – Cert. 12 – 96m ***1/2 A feud between Taoist and Buddhist neighbours, and a tentative romance between their boy and girl apprentices, are interrupted by the arrival of a coffin, from which a hopping corpse escapes – out on Blu-ray in the UK on Monday, […]

Tags action, Anthony Chan, apprentice, assistant, Bo Ho Films, Buddhist rituals, child actor, chills, Chin Kar-lok, coffin, comedy, conga line, corpse, cross-country to his house, effigy, entourage, eunuch, Fat Chung, feud, floorboards, foreheads, fox demon, fox spirit, from sleeping, gay, gay stereotype, Ho Kin-wai, Hoh Kin-wai, home, Hong Kong, hopping corpse, hopscotch, immobilised, jiangshi, knot of toads, Lam Ching-ying, limbo dance, Loletta Lee, low-hanging, malted sugar, mayhem, Mr. Vampire, neighbour, neighbouring houses, next door neighbour, nighttime, Pauline Wong, possession, potential romance, prevent, prince, Ricky Lau, rituals, romance, Sammo Hung / Leonard Ho, seductive, sequel, sex comedy, spooky, sticky, stunts, talismans, Taoist priest, thrills, toad, undead corpses, wire work, Wu Ma, Yuen Wah

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Mr. Vampire III
(Ling Wan
Sin Sang,
靈幻先生)

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Post date May 26 2023
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(Ling Wan
Sin Sang,
靈幻先生)
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Director – Ricky Lau – 1987 – Hong Kong – Cert. 15 – 88m***1/2Stunt-filled action comedy in which a travelling con-artist in cahoots with ghosts helps a Taoist priest fight a gang of horse thieves led by an evil sorceress – out on Blu-ray in the UK on Monday, May 22nd as part of Eureka! […]

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Mr. Vampire II
(Geung See
Ga Zuk,
殭屍家族)

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Post date May 24 2023
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(Geung See
Ga Zuk,
殭屍家族)
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Director – Ricky Lau – 1986 – Hong Kong – Cert. 12 – 89m ***** After a professor unearths a family of undead corpses, the child befriends a little girl and the parents go looking for it – out on Blu-ray in the UK on Monday, May 22nd as part of Eureka! Video’s Hopping Mad: […]

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The Dead
And The Deadly
(Ren Xia Ren,
人嚇人)

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Post date May 1 2023
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And The Deadly
(Ren Xia Ren,
人嚇人)
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Director – Wu Ma – 1982 – Hong Kong – Cert. 12 – 99m ***** A couple planning an inheritance swindle convince their victim to play along then kill him, after which he comes back as a ghost to take revenge – classic and seminal HK kung fu comedy is out on UK Blu-ray in […]

Tags brothel, Cherie Cheung, Chung Fat, conspiracy, conspirators, death, fighting, ghost, heir, Hong Kong, inheritance, invisible, kung fu, Lam Ching-ying, Leung Mei Hei, money, Mr. Vampire, murder, poisoning, possession, pregnant, priest, revenge, sacrifice, Sammo Hung, scam, stunts, Taoist priest, undead, Wu Ma