When all Hell breaks loose not even the mightiest warriors can withstand the undead hordes which have been released. But there is one among them whose whole life was spent training for this moment in his afterlife - the Undead Kungfu Ghost Killer!
• TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES
• K-POP MONSTER HUNTERS
• THE WALKING DEAD
• KUNG FU HUSTLE
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Wonder where the clip’s from that’s about 30 seconds into your video. Is that from a movie that influenced your work? Are there some other films that are more iconic of this genre?
BTW it takes a lot of energy to hop with both arms straight forward like that. There must be some great animating force behind that!
The video clip is from the 1985 Hong Kong classic Mr. Vampire.
This movie, along with producer Sammo Hung’s SPOOKY ENCOUNTERS, launched the entire hopping-vampire horror-comedy sub-genre
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Those movies seem to be a mashup with vampires and voodoo. Do you know of an ancient sources of these Chinese vampires? I don’t see anything like that in the catalogs of Chinese folklore, and that is unusual because one can look for just about anything in Chinese history and find it.
I’ve been working my way through the H. A. GILES 1880 translation of STRANGE STORIES
FROM A CHINESE STUDIO (Liaozhai zhiyi (聊齋誌異)) which purports to be a source for the Jiāngshī’s (殭屍) more vampire-like traits.
I looked through Giles translation of Strange Stories and did not find any source of Jiangshi but did see many other folktales that have been translated before and are in English catalogs. So, I went and looked at the Wiki for Encounters of the Spooky Kind and found that there was a previous movie on the subject called: “The Spiritual Boxer II (1979) (aka: The Shadow Boxing), which not only showcased the jiang shi but also delved into the ritual of corpse-walking and the world of the corpse herders.” The reviewer cited in the previous quote stated that: “an almost indescribable array of crosspollinating genres (horror comedy, martial arts, etc.) and alien ideals that were too extreme to possibly have any grounding in the literary or historical.” I still think there must be some untranslated source in literature, at least of the voodoo aspect of jaingshi given that accupuncture has been around for a long time and could have been an influence. What better show of accupuncture prowess would there be than to bring back the dead?
