There are vampires and then there are hopping vampires, a staple of Chinese horror movies as different from the suave, aristocratic bloodsuckers who haunt Western European tradition as it's possible to be. This period martial arts-horror hybrid pits four 19th-century vampire hunters who call themselves Wind (Ken Chang), Lightning (Chan Kwok Kwan), Thunder (Michael Chow) and Rain (Lam Suet) against a powerful vampire king and an army of hopping zombies preserved with wax, and it's just as goofy as can be. To be sure, certain traditional horror tropes are in order, albeit with an Asian twist. There's a worm-faced vampire lurking around an isolated graveyard, and the fo...
Released:
2002
Rated:
R
Length:
90 mins