![]() ![]() It's got the blue lit scenes filmed through blue filters, the plot that leaps about quite dizzyingly, the bad acting (no offense) and worse special effects (several of which are blatantly stolen from Blade, but badly done). VAMPIRE COMBAT feels like a truly Hong Kong film. He has a lot of HK movie heritage, and it shows. Wilson Tong appears to have been making Kung Fu movies since the 70's, as an actor mostly. ![]() it's about having an idea, a minimal amount of cash and going out and trying to make the best film you can with it. Hell, I'm pretty sure this script never existed at all. This script hasn't been passed through 7 marketing departments for target audience approval, or 15 layers of producers, each of whom feels the need to justify their job by demanding some pointless change that kills whatever spirit the story had when it was written. Now doesn't that sound like fun? The plot has that great feel of "anything goes" that was what really drew me to HK cinema in the first place. Fate has declared that Jackie Lui, the vaguely psychic head of the "Supernatural Detective Agency", shall bear the task. Skip some more years, and as the millenium approaches the planets and stars align once more, Demon Monster can be resurrected if Yin Woman can be found. Some years later, Andrew Lin (who for reasons that are never really explained is ageless), finds the reincarnation of Yin Woman and seals her third eye so that Demon Monster's faithful assistant can't find her. There is a big fight and Demon Monster is vanquished, but not until he's sucked the blood of Yin Woman. 60 years ago, Andrew Lin leads a gang of intrepid vampire fighters to rescue his girlfriend, Yin Woman, from the clutches of Demon Monster. It's almost as if the past decade never happened, except now there's some really bad CG effects in the mix too. VAMPIRE COMBAT - Yes! Screw Wu Yen, this is the film that's going to bring back the early 90's to Hong Kong. ![]()
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