A gem from the box art alone ----------------------------------------------------->
The sleeve and credits said one “Joe Livingstone”
directed this masterpiece, but a quick look on the IMDB told us it was actually Godfrey Ho, director of a-hundred-and-nineteen surely wonderful
movies including gems like Ninja Terminator, Robo-Kickboxer, Clash of the Ninjas and a few more we own but
haven't gotten around to watching yet.
Plot unfolds something like this: Some
crafty drug smugglers have decided to train vampires to guard their
drugs during transport. During an altercation with said vampires, a
narcotics agent gets himself killed and then brought right back to
life –by some questionable lab coated folks– to become a
robot-cop hell bent on defeating the drug lords and their vampires.
And if that isn't amazing enough:
There's a sub-plot that culminates in the wedding of a ghost and a
vampire.
Things to watch for: Basement-sale
budgets for everything, over the top run-on-sentence-exposition
overdubbing, and a robot costume that seems like it was a very generous gift from a high school theater
troup.
What we learned: This time
we learned an actual thing! This movie is what we'd always called a
“hopping vampire movie”, which we have now learned are called Jiang-shi. Behaving more like zombies than vampires, Jiang-shi
hop as their mode of transportation due to rigamortis setting into
their rotting corpses, they feed on qi (our life-force) rather than
blood, and can be stopped by everything from the blood of a black dog
to spilled rice.
Things you shouldn't care about: Every
single actor in this movie (as well as almost all of the crew) never
worked on a single other film, with two exceptions: Ernst Mausser (36
films) and Sorapong Chatree (57 films). Neither of those actors were even given credits in the original film!
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