Geung see ga zuk (1986)

Geung see ga zuk: Directed by Ricky Lau. With Ching-Ying Lam, Biao Yuen, Fat Chung, Billy Lau. Modern grave robbing “archeologists” find perfectly preserved specimens from the past of a man, a woman, and their child. Unbeknownst to the scientist and his two bumbling assistants, these are vampires immobilized only by the paper spells pasted on their foreheads. While transporting the child to a buyer, its spell blows off and the vampire child escapes and befriends some local children. Eventually, the parent vampires are also awakened and escape, but by now the local herbalist is on their trail to destroy them.

“This film is a complete change in tone from u0026quot;Mr. Vampireu0026quot;. This sequel is really only an extension of the vampire-gone-loose idea, and is set in modern times. We have very little brought from the original, and what is brought (Lam Ching-Ying), is quite dis-connected anyway.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThat said, this film is quite odd. Lam Ching-Ying is excellent as usual as the kind of hard-case Taoist priest, and we seem him up against vampires in the usual sense. Yuen Biao is quite under-used as the Taoist Priestu0026#39;s off-sider, and is quite clumsy and reluctant to engage in kung-fu technique it seems. I was waiting for him to really do something but it never really came for me. Most of this film is wrestling back and forth with a pair of vampires.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe vampires are portrayed (for my tastes), as too human. Whereas in Mr. Vampire 1, the corpse is sort of without personality, and has ceased being human, the vampires in this film are really portrayed as a family unit. We are asked to sympathise with them quite often.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eDo not expect anything like Mr. Vampire 1 and youu0026#39;ll be fine. If you do, you may have to see it at least twice as I have to judge it on itu0026#39;s own merits. It really is a very separate film to the original, and the title does it more harm than good I believe.”