Product Details

• Actors: Billy Chan, Lung Chan, Ti-Hong Cheung, Fat Chung, Ching-Ying Lam
• Format: Color, Dubbed, Letterboxed, NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Tai Seng
• VHS Release Date: October 12, 1999
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6305131309
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #424,661 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

The Mr. Vampire films of the 1980s may be the most familiar examples of a unique Hong Kong subgenre, the knockabout horror comedy. But here, as elsewhere, the true pioneer turns out to be the Fat Dragon, Sammo Hung. He worked out all the basic moves (sticky rice as a ghost repellent; the frantic use of spells scribbled on slips of paper) in this 1980 ghost farce. It's a fancy-dress period film in which a gang of clowns, pretending to be spooks in order to terrorize each other, inadvertently invoke the real thing. Pretty soon everyone in sight (including Sammo's foxy but unfaithful wife) is conjuring up a hopping corpse or a nasty poltergeist, and a supernatural traffic jam ensues. (The same basic idea was recycled, much less effectively, in 1982's The Dead and the Deadly.) Hung's world-class kung fu skills prove to be as well adapted to slapstick horseplay as to knockdown action, and in the best scenes they work both ways at once. In the finale, Hung fights off several attackers as his body is possessed by one ectoplasmic intruder after another, each with a distinct personality. Sammo is never more graceful than when he's pretending to be a clumsy oaf. --David Chute

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Early Samo Huang film thumbs up!, November 28, 2000

By 

P. Webb "Trajedi" (Bozeman, MT United States) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Spooky Encounters (DVD)

This title was produced in 1980 and other than how old Samo looks its not very dated looking. The dvd transfer is good and the sound is surprising there are a few scratches on the print (minor)and the only english is the subtitles. Now this film takes a little while to get rolling but by the last 1/3 you are completely engaged. The story of the dueling voodoo priest brothers is excellent as is the fight choreograhpy and performance by director/star Samo H. If you are a fan of HK cinema check this one out I was very pleased with it and can't wait for the sequel. Oh by the way the box says 89 mins but its really 99 mins long and oh my that last ten minutes.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I swear this is the best movie ever !!!!!, June 11, 2004

By 

Darrius Vincent (Kansas city, KS USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Spooky Encounters (DVD)

Man!!!!This movie blew me away when i first saw it, just everything about it from start to finish it's just insane.
I thought when I saw it the first time I would just put it with my other dvd's. But it only got better with the second viewing.
This is the movie that made realize that Sammo Hung is the s***.
That's not to say that I did'nt know he was before, but this only solidifies it.I remember seeing a clip of this movie when i was little, ever since i've been looking for it but i did'nt know the name of it. Now that i've found it and i'm never lettin' it go. I miss movies like this, very inventive, great choreography I SAID IT BEFORE I'LL SAY IT AGAIN SAMMO HUNG IS THE BEST .But anyway like everyone else said the ending is just crazy.
Crazy in a good way, I dare anybody, genre fan or not to watch this movie and not like it. You show the person who does'nt like
this movie even a little i'll show you a freakin' psycho.
It don't get better than this. I've got nothin' else to say I love it. By the way is there anybody out there that wants to talk kung fu with me please let me know. I'm at (...)
Peace.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best of its kind !, March 24, 2001

By 

Mian Sukiman "M Suk" (Jakarta Indonesia) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Spooky Encounters (DVD)

Funny, exciting. This 1980 movie really changed the HK movie industry which up to that year had never combined horror with kungfu comedy. This movie spawned numerous imitations and the successful Mr. Vampire and Chinese Ghost Story series. Samo Hung still looks young and in a good shape really shines. The plot is about a man framed for murder of his wife because his wife has an affair with a rich man. The rich man hired a sorcerer to kill Samo Hung. Samo got helped by another sorcerer. The fight scenes are terrific and the DVD is quite good as well. Highly recommended. This movie along with the first Mr. Vampire are really the best of the genre. For you who never experienced HK horror, comedy, kungfu movie this is the one to start with.