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If a person dies & comes back to live, he's considered a zombie (no surprise here, I'll give you
that) who has to feed on human flesh. If the zombie has devoured enough
human flesh, it becomes a vampire, a supernatural being able to drain
the life-energy of humans. Wounds inflicted by zombies are curable,
wounds inflicted by vampires almost certainly lead to zombiefication !
So much for the setup of this movie. Right at the beginning, Master Ji
Chun Hua & his pupils (Chan Kwok Kwan, Ken Chang, Suet Lam, Michael Chow Man-Kin)
fight one of these vampires with little success - not only are all of
their footsoldiers killed, also, the Master vanishes in battle. Three
months later the four above mentioned vampire hunters are able to track
down the vampire king to a mansion where a wedding ceremony is supposed
to take place (even though everything about this ceremony seems
rather strange) & the foursome decide to go undercover by posing as
servants. The story really gets complicated when: -
The proposed husband dies, - One of the vampire
hunters falls for the proposed bride Anya, -
The vampire hunters find out the master of the mansion Yu Rong Guang
keeps his ancestors' & relatives' corpses in the mansion ... covered in wax, -
The gangster-brother of Anya, Horace Lee Wai Shing decides to awaken
these corpses with the help of zombie wrangler Chan Koon Tai in order to
rob the place (which doesn't sound like too good an idea all by itself), -
& finally, the vampire king appears (& does bite Anya by the
way). Luckily, Master Ji Chun Hua also returns - despite all fears not
as a zombie - & a gigantic martial arts battle ensues, at the end of
which good triumphs over evil (even though the master finally dies). How
Anya was cured from her vampire-bite is never properly told ... Before
I can even begin to comment on this movie, I have to admit I'm a sucker
for the combination of the living dead- & the martial arts-genre.
Almost every movie to combine these two in a somewhat entertaining
fashion will get (my) benefit of the doubt, & in terms of pure
craftmanship (being good martial arts, atmospheric sets, great
setpieces) this movie delivers the goods. But apart from that, there
is little to recommend this movie: The script is just really bad as storytelling
lacks any conviction at all, caring little for the characters that are not sketched out at
all, even the two love stories in this movie are strangely
uninvolving as you have no idea whatsoever what these people stand for.
So, the long & stunt/effects-laden battle between good & evil at
the end of the movie leaves you ultimately untouched. Also, one can't
help but wonder why the storyline about Anya's vampire-bite was quite
unexplicably dropped.
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