A scientist (Bill Tung Biu) desperately wants to get his hands on a
(hopping) vampire to examine it, so he sends out his aide Akui
- who's more interested in the scientist's daughter Ahua (Gei
Fong-Ling) than his work as it is - to get him one. Akui makes numerous
attempts to get his hands onto one of the hopping dead, but when he
finally, and rather by accident, makes the acquaintance of child vampire
Ding-dong (Siu Kei-Kei), he quickly befriends the little one and can't get
himself to hand him over to his boss so he can dissect Ding-dong on the operating
table. At the same time, a Taoist priest (Mars) hits town with his own
assortment of (perfectly tame) hopping corpses, and he soon strikes up a
shady deal with the corrupt local officials to use his hopping corpses to
scare the populace shitless so he can in turn sell everyone his services as
vampire hunter. However, his plans are somewhat spoiled when a group of
untamed, evil vampires
shows up in town as well, and they are here to kill - kill and little else.
The Taoist priest figures to make his scheme work, he has to get rid of
the evil vampires, so he and the crooked officials set up a vampire trap
... a trap that first springs on Ding-dong, which in turn urges Akui to try and free him,
along with Ahua and the scientist, who have since made friends with the
little vampire - but of course, they arrive at the
scene just when the vampires (the evil ones) start their all-out attack,
and it all culminates in a big showdown - but of course, in the end, good
triumphs over evil, and the vampires as well as the Taoist priest and the
crooked officials get their just desserts. Childish and a tad
cheesy vampire comedy that features quite a few well-made Hong Kong-style
action setpieces - but also a few musical interludes that spell pure
kitsch. And since the tried-and-true plot is a bit on the unoriginal side,
and the cast is less than special, it's probably better to give this one a
miss ...
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