HOPPING MAD: THE MR VAMPIRE SEQUELS (BLU-RAY) BOXSET
Mr Vampire II, Mr Vampire III, Mr Vampire IV and Vampire vs Vampire in this blu ray boxset release from Eureka Entertainment. Mr. Vampire sparked the wave for films about Jiangshi (Chinese hopping vampires), and this limited edition 2-disc collection brings these sequels together In Mr Vampire II (aka Vampire Family) an archaeologist and his students unwittingly set free a family of hopping vampires who wreak havoc in 1980s Hong Kong. Mr Vampire III returns to a period setting and sees Lam Ching-ying’s Taoist priest battle an evil witch (a brilliant performance by veteran actress Pauline Yuk-Wan Wong). Mr Vampire IV (aka Uncle Vampire) two feuding...
How Sammo Hung Mixed Crude Comedy and Authentic Martial Arts
Mixing comedy and kung fu – humour and violence – could be considered a strange idea, and some kung fu comedies work better than others. The two films which popularised the genre, Snake in The Eagle’s Shadow (1978) and Drunken Master (1978), poked gentle fun at the kung fu itself and were amusing as a result. Others, like The Prodigal Son (1979) and The Magnificent Butcher (1981) – the former directed by Sammo Hung Kam Bo, the latter featuring Hung as an actor – simply intersperse full-on combat scenes with corny humour, and the jokes often detract from the action....
Funky Forest / Warped Forest
With Third Window Films releasing Funky Forest in 2022, rather than us tell you about how crazy this film is, from the country of crazy films, we asked Third Window's Managing Director, Adam Torel, to tell us in his words about the film and what's special about their release... Funky Forest is one of those cult classics that has a loyal following out there, but was a huge bomb in Japan, which is one of the reasons why getting it out in HD and on bluray was a complicated process. Though, if putting all the time, money and effort...
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