![]() In the 1980s, this genre was briefly popular in Hong Kong movies, Since this genre predated the craze for zombies in the West, the term vampire was applied in the English translation. They hop around (hahaha!) and attack humans. The living corpses are more like zombies (the animated dead). Vampire Cleanup Department (2017) The term 'vampire' is incorrect in this Chinese genre (dating from literature of the 19th Century). It is quite a cute film though and is hard to dislike but I personally only found it sporadically entertaining. But the film as a whole was a bit ho hum otherwise with nothing much else sanding out very much. ![]() the hopping vampire! This type of detail specific to China is good fun to see and the character of the girl vampire was pretty good value. She is played like a fish-out-of-water innocent and displays some of the very unusual vampire traits associated with China, i.e. The most interesting character was the female vampire that our geeky hero develops a love affair with. The comedy wasn't especially funny, the horror was peripheral and the action was fairly unremarkable, resulting in a middling movie. This Hong Kong feature is a genre mash-up of comedy, horror and action (with even a little bit of romance thrown in for good measure). ![]() He is, therefore, summoned by the Vampire Cleanup Department who are a small group of specialists dedicated to combatting and dispelling vampires. Vampire or Spooky Encounters.After a sinister late-night encounter, a geeky young guy discovers that he is immune to vampire toxins. Still, it could've been a much worse film, I can actually see myself watch this film again in the future, it was an easy watch, even if the romance between Tim and the vampire girl made me want to hug a big teddybear and "squee" like a teenage girl, which is not the way I would've wanted it as a fan of 80s HK Horror Comedies - I'm still happy though that Hong Kong is keeping the Chinese Vampire franchise alive, even if it never will reach the same level as Mr. We even got a blink-and-you-miss-it cameo of Ching-Ying Lam in a photograph handed to Richard Ng's character. Vampire and could probably find a way to make it work better than having her just jump around. Why not make her a ghost instead of a vampire? The film-makers obviously must've seen Mr. I did however have a bigger problem with the sugar-sweet love story going on between Tim and the vampire girl, because of movie, she ended up sucking some of his vampire-immunity from him in the beginning of the film, making her look like a super-cute model girl, more or less. The main threat of the film is a bad, powerful vampire attacking the city they live in and the film had such a light-hearted tone to it that I never feared that anyone would really end up die - like I said, Kindergarten Horror. And during the film, Tim gets trained by the different people at the Department to be a vampire fighter himself, including swiping the floor and throwing the waste in the trash bin, which took me a couple of seconds to figure out where it was leading to *coughs* Karate Kid *coughs*. The VCD crew is a bunch of silly/crazy/cool group of people like the Ghostbusters, fighting vampires and do it really well too. There's also something with the way this film is filmed and lit that makes it feels like a direct-to-DVD film, it's too clean and too smooth, like the young actors having way too much makeup making them look artificial.Īnyway, after Rigor Mortis ended up being too dark, this film was just too light-hearted, our main protagonist Tim ending up falling in love with a girl vampire (although she looks like a normal girl) and has to hide it from the Vampire Cleanup Department (VCD) while he learns to become a vampire fighter like them. As for this film, you get an idea at once what you're in for, a comedy with some spooky elements, not horrific, I was never scared during this film, this is more like a kindergarten horror if anything. I complained about Rigor Mortis that it took itself too serious and that stripping out every little piece of humour might only have harmed the film more. Reviewed by cauwboy 6 / 10 A Chinese Ghostbusters/Karate Kid Romantic Comedy mixĪfter having watched the very dark and depressing Rigor Mortis, I soon found out about this film, with Siu-Ho Chin back as a badass vampire fighter and his old sidekick played by the forever funny Richard Ng.
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