Sammo Hung created the hopping vampire in movies?!

[thewayne]

I did not know this.

From Sammo's Wikipedia entry:

Hung also created the hopping vampire genre with two landmark movies - Close Encounters Of The Spooky Kind (1981) and The Dead And The Deadly (1983). Both movies featured vampires who, as stiffened corpses, moved by hopping, and Taoist priests who were able to quell these vampires (and at times, each other) through magical spells and charms. These movies melded Chinese folk beliefs with special effects and breath-taking kung fu to create a genre that was uniquely Chinese. Hung's movie would later pave the way for movies such as the highly-popular Mr Vampire (1985).


I'm going to have to check into availability on these! I've never seen hopping vampires in Chinese cinema, I'd heard about them, but never seen them.

Comments

[keleos.livejournal.com]

Sammo Hung is a brilliant fight choreographer. And I've seen him do fight scenes himself... he does not move like he looks like he should move, y'know? He's a big man, but he's fast and fluid. Incredible. I'm gonna have to check out the hopping vampires as well.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

I loved Martial Law, great cop show. And the few movies that he co-stars with Jackie Chan are just fab. He did a movie called Millionaire's Express, if you ever find it, I'd definitely recommend it. magic_rat glimpsed it on laserdisc at a used book store while we were cruising it and I snagged that and a Michelle Yeoh film called Wing Chun for a very nice price.