Mr. Vampire (Ricky Lau, 1985) Presented By The Hong Kong Cinema Club

About the Show

MR. VAMPIRE

Presented by The Hong Kong Cinema Club

“The 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. The franchise’s recurring star Lam Ching-Ying plays a unibrowed Taoist priest who, when a bloodthirsty revivified corpse pogoes its way out of the grave and begins terrorizing his town, must use a mix of magic and kung fu to stop the mayhem. Unfortunately, his two bumbling assistants (Ricky Hui and Chin Siu-Ho) cause nearly as much trouble as the bouncing bloodsucker.” – Criterion

MR. VAMPIRE will be presented uncut, from a recent 2K restoration, in its original Cantonese w/ English subtitles. Our event will include a preshow, trailer reel and themed-zine (NOTE: zines will be sold in-person).