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Mr Vampire on DVD (1993)
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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. Time Out A ditzy rewrite on vampire mythology as we know it. When a Chinese family is menaced by blood-craving zombies, they... Read more on www.timeout.com Members ReviewsReviews Voted Most HelpfulMost Recent Reviews |
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