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Mr Vampire
1993
In Ricky Lau's MR. VAMPIRE (literally translated as "Mr. Stiff Corpse"), an undertaker (Chin Siu-Ho) notices that one of his corpses, instead of staying dead, is turning into a vampire. One of the undertaker's two bumbling assistants gets bitten, while the other falls in love with a beautiful ghost. Can one man stop the madness .. Read more
| Starring | Ricky Hui, Chin Siu Ho, Lam Ching Ying |
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| Director | Ricky Lau |
| Genres | Comedy, Horror, World Cinema |
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Mr Vampire
In Ricky Lau's MR. VAMPIRE (literally translated as "Mr. Stiff Corpse"), an undertaker (Chin Siu-Ho) notices that one of his corpses, instead of staying dead, is turning into a vampire. One of the undertaker's two bumbling assistants gets bitten, while the other falls in love with a beautiful ghost. Can one man stop the madness and put the dead back into the ground
| Starring | Ricky Hui, Chin Siu Ho, Lam Ching Ying |
|---|---|
| Director | Ricky Lau |
| Studio | E1 ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 33 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Comedy, Horror, World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: Cantonese |
| Dubbed | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 22 Apr 2006 Production year: 1993 |
| Format | DVD |
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Slapstick comedy, mystic martial arts and astonishing gore appear in the first of a long line of popular, and much copied, period Chinese horror films. Lam Ching Ying is the voodoo priest hired by a prominent merchant to exorcise his bouncing bloodsucker father. Complications arise thanks to Lam's two over-enthusiastic apprentices, lured by lonely ghosts into exhausting nights of spectral passion, and the eight zombies left in his undertaking care. With flying heads, fang filing and all manner of unusual contributions to western undead mythology (holding the breath makes one invisible, sticky rice is a vampire deterrent), this is oriental knockabout horror at its most entertaining and gruesome.
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A ditzy rewrite on vampire mythology as we know it. When a Chinese family is menaced by blood-craving zombies, they... read more on Time Out
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Mr Vampire
Great film, martial arts, comedy with a horror type twist. Laughed my spuds off!
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Superb piece of Hong Kong hokum
Uncle Kau is a mortician with a natty sideline in necromantic magic. He's got a problem with vampires. They hop, blood daubed on their foreheads will stop them, and Post-It Notes scrawled with arcane sigils and affixed to their faces will keep them docile. Comedy vampires are superb. Throw in some very athletic and funny chop-socky, and you've a superb piece of Hong Kong hokum. Top film.
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Mr Vampire
In Ricky Lau's MR. VAMPIRE (literally translated as "Mr. Stiff Corpse"), an undertaker (Chin Siu-Ho) notices that one of his corpses, instead of staying dead, is turning into a vampire. One of the undertaker's two bumbling assistants gets bitten, while the other falls in love with a beautiful ghost....
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