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 'MR. VAMPIRE'
Director; Ricky Lau
Producer; Mun Kai Ko
Starring; Ching Ying Lam as 'Master Ko', Siu-Ho Chin, Ricky Hui,
Moon Lee as Ting-Ting, Bily Lau and Wal Yuen as The Vampire (The First Grandfather one.)
Bo Ho Film Company Ltd.
Toho Towa-1985
Now Free on 'YOU-TUBE' in 7 Parts. Part 1> https://youtu.be/VJC5VpevLdg?si=w8iTGPJCK5DEjWHp  

Welcome back to 'DITA's-DEN', Hon!
Tis I, your 'Asian-Themed' Horror/Cult Film Hostess for the Month of May, DITA DIRT NAP! As I start my theme of 'Asian-Horror & Cult Films in honor of 'ASIAN HERITAGE MONTH 'in May ,DITA brings you one of long-time Favorite Asian Horror/Comedy Flicks simply called; 'MR. VAMPIRE' from 1985. Click here to see the Trailer> https://youtu.be/JojYPtVqfXY?si=T1btx7Y-AtQxmFKk

Any-boo, this fun action-adventure, martial-arts, Asian culture folklore, fantasy horror/comedy is seen as a part of DITA's long-ago Music Video still on Vimeo under; 'Count Gore De Vol Presents; 'DITA DIRT NAP's Horror/Cult Music Video.

Now let me first say that this Cult-Horror Flick was so popular that they made 5 Sequels, which DITA has the entire Collection on DVD! So look for 'MR. VAMPIRE 2' sometime in the future here in Dita's-Den'. Also it was so popular that in Japan it become a hit TV-series. Now very quickly before DITA forgets, back to my review.

The movie opens with a Head-Master aka Vampire-Killer called Master Ko played brilliant in Mr. Vampire 1 through 5 by actor; Ching-Ying Lam who wears a 'gore-juss' yellow satin robe ,complete w/ying and yang symbols on the back! He works at keeping Vampires in check for the village he lives in. Now he has two numb skulls working for him DITA will call 'FRICK & FRACK'. One of them is handsome but goofy and the other is just plain goofy. The film opens with Master Ko and his assistants baby-sitting vampires that are lined-up in order with little yellow pieces of magic paper w/Asian writing on them and I believe chicken-blood so they stay-stuck to each vampires forehead. Why you may ask?
To keeping them from hopping around causing mayhem!

Let DITA explain; you see in Asian horror folklore they believe that vampires would have 'rig-a-mortis' and there fore would have stiff joints and would have to hop to get around.
Also they can be controlled by a bell rung by a master such as Master Ko. You would think 'hopping vampires' would only be funny but DITA thinks it makes them truly more scary! They also can't see, so they would follow your breath to find you. They can hop, dive and glide as well as stabbing you in the neck with long pointy finger nails and then bite you. They also have super undead strength. How's that for a vampire?

In the first scene which has a lot going on Frack ,the extra goofy one is supposed to be watching them but ends up some how letting the little yellow paper fall off one of their for heads! And the hopping begins! Of course his Boss Master Ko has to be called in to get the now heard of hopping vampires back in order with new yellow papers placed back on their fore heads to control them. You see the yellow paper w/chicken blood on it once placed there keeps them from moving and freezes them in place. Long story short they get them rounded up, yellow papers back in place on each vamp as well as Frick and Frack helping their Master heard them outside and have them all hop in a row to be re-housed for the night all by simply ringing a little bell.

So a man comes to Master Ko for help as his father died 20 years ago but was buried the wrong direction in the grave yard, up instead of long ways, Hon. He goes to investigate the fathers burial site and tells the man's son he must be cremated instead or his father will come back as a vampire of the 'hopping'-variety my little spider-bites. The man doesn't listen telling Master Ko that his father was afraid of fire. Dumb people 'never' listen , do they kids? So when night falls his father turns into a vampire and hops into the village afore mentioned from the grave yard.

He , DITA will call him; Grandpa-Vampire, causes chaos killing someone by stabbing them repeatedly in their neck. Master Ko is accused by a goofy policeman, kind of a Asian Benny Hill with glasses if you will that DITA will attest to as Goofy-Cop. So 'Goofy-Cop' thinks because Master Ko has long nails that he must be the killer as none saw the undead hopping grandpa vampire do the slaying of the male villager.
'Goofy-Cop' places the super-intelligent Master-Ko in jail. Master Ko quickly tells his bumbling assistants 'Frick & Frack' to bring his the magical ward-off-vampires items to the jail later that same night which DITA recollects was chicken blood, sticky rice, the afore mentioned yellow papers w/Asian writing, string that when used some what like origami can shock the vampires.

The sticky rice burns their feet as it is explained in the film that vampires feet has a lot toxins, Hon. Anyway, DITA forgot to tell you that after Master Ko arrest, the 'Goofy-Cop' who is related to the vampire, which is his Uncle brings his soon to be vampire uncle back to the jail and lays him there outside of the jail cell. Meanwhile the Master is behind bars when all of the sudden the man turns into a vampire and starts chasing his 'goofy-cop' nephew around the entire jail.  This scene is hysterical and includes lots of martial arts, action, humour and Asian horror folklore thru-out the scene.

Long story shorter; 'goofy-cop' lets out Master Ko to help stop his uncle after a long funny fight with 'goofy-cop', Frick and Frack, Master Ko and the newly turned hopping Uncle vampire, they use every trick in the book and finally burn him alive. DITA also forgot to tell you in the opening scene of this fantastic flick that vampire is in a coffin that gets sealed with chicken blood that is lines the outside of the mans coffin in a criss-cross type of style that when the vampire tries to get out of the coffin, the chicken blood lights up to try and keep the vamp-coffin sealed but the hopping vamp is too strong for it and eventually explodes it open, hops out and horror and hilarity ensues. Don't cha' just love it???

In the scene DITA mentioned the son of the vampire is killed by his father when his vampire escaped from the chicken-blood covered coffin. The son later too turns into a vampire and hilariously hops off into the night. All the while there is another cool storyline going on that involves the Frick-character, you know the handsome goofy one when he is sent by Master Ko go buy sticky rice to help Frack who in the film gets bit by a vampire. He goes at night in the dark with incense stuck burning on the front of his bike to ward off wandering Female-Ghosts. Oh yes my little chicken-blood covered coffin-creepers, that is the other fun/culty Asian origin of folklore from Japan that is shown in this film.

You see in Asian-horror their are usually Female-Ghosts who wander the night looking a for a gullible sucker, uh, I mean looking for a lover. They come with detachable heads, long hair that attacks, chokes and sometimes strangles her victims to death with it, making Rapunzel look like 'Rebecca Of Sunny Brook Farm'. They also can hide their age and decaying faces, as well as making men fly to them in mid air and possess them until the die, oh and can fly thru the air and do battle. As DITA mention before this film has a lot going on in it!

So the Frick character goes , gets the rice but the cheap and dishonest store honor fills his bag with only half sticky rice and half regular rice comes up why that's a bad thing later in the film. Just as he had feared but didn't notice , a female ghost flies to a nearby tree branch , sits and waits for Frick to ride by and quickly hitches a ride on the back of his bike in the dark-woods he is riding-thru. She hysterically forgets to duck and a big tree branch knocks off his bike. So of course she is not deterred and tricks him by forcing a local village man to pretend to molest her, as she states in her own words. Frick rides by and sees this and scares the tricked-man away leaving the Female Ghost to quickly charm him to bring her back to her home created temporarily by her black-magic and lures him into her bed when later tries to leave by faking a rain storm. In the morning after spending the night w/her and bringing back what DITA can only call; 'Ghost-Hickies', which Master Ko immediately recognizes as Ghost-Possession.

So by this point the good Master has his hands full with his two goofy-apprentices. One he's trying to keep from turning into a vampire ,cuz he was bit in one of the fights they've had already and the other he is trying to de-possess from the female ghost as he knows she'll try again harder this time. First Frack is given bizarre instructions by Master Ko to ward off changing into a vampire completely. One is too keep moving around his arms and legs to ward off 'rig-gah-mortis', so he dances around humorously, somewhat like a geisha-girl that's maybe smoked a ton of weed. Master also tells him to use the sticky rice by putting it around him when he does finally sleep and on the floor so if hopping-vamps attack suddenly it will burn their feet. Despite all that, he wakes up before a vamp-attack ,this time with the sons grandfather attacking in all-out full force.

As DITA was saying he wakes up and sees that his nails have grown into sharp objects and scarring on face which he tries to hide with other Female character called;' Ting Ting''s make up. He eventually wards off turning into a vampire near the end of this DITA-favorite film. When he does turn almost fully at one point , he does a funny/weird kind of stalking walk haunt-stance that tickled DITA's funny-bone, since I am a skeleton!

As for the other character of FRICK and the 'Female-Ghost' that won't seem to give up, Master Ko follows Frick back to her make-believe house as she is trying to posses him literally to death. Master Ko jumps into action and battles first with moon-beams captured and reflected to her by way of mirror into her house with a direct hit which angers her.
She uses her black magic to quickly make Frick fly back to her just as Master Ko enters her faux-home to have a 'must-be-seen' ghost to Master Ko show-down.
First she detaches her head and makes it fly across the room, then she uses her headless body to come up behind him and try to hold his hands hostage.
He then pulls out what looks like Asian-origami ropes that she flies right into and gets shocked almost to death. Then at that moment Master Ko tries to kill her by running a sword thru her but Frick asks him not to.

This moment the female ghost uses this halt to fly away forever quickly like a rocket out a nearby window, When she does her house made by magic crumbles and starts to resemble a run-down crack-house not fit for 'crack-heads' thinks DITA! DITA will say the end battle-scene where everybody fights off the Grandpa Vampire is 'NOT' to be missed as it is filled w/great choreographed fight scenes fast enuff to make your head-spin and continue to 'cresh-shen-doh' non-stop till a wonderful 'we-win' dramatic poetic-justice finale.
Watch for this final scene that has everything happening so quickly that it's brilliant orchestrated , moves of martial-arts mixed with jumps, humour, quick battle-tactics that seem to never end! DITA liked this part the best as well as the scene in this film where 'Goofy-Cop' lands on the shoulders almost of the Uncle Vampire. The Vampire quickly tries to bite his dick off. DITA LIKE-Y!!!

There are also funny scenes in the start of the film where Ting Ting , the other female character goes to try and buy make up from Frick at a store and mistakes her for a Hooker! DITA won't tell you what happens at the end of the film but I will say a long-lingering stammering cremation is choreographed horrifically-beautiful! End Scene! That's really 'closing-the-gate' as the Directors say here in Hollyweird!

DITA can't say enuff great things about this Cult-tastic Horror/Comedy DIRECT from Asia! DITA loved the flow, the magic, the Asian folklore, the cast of quirky characters, the 'Cult-tah-lish-ous' Hopping Vampires and even the fun repeated musical-score used in the action-scenes like when two characters are caught in a closet by one of the vampires, who as explained earlier is blind and can't see them, so they take turns, the man and the woman tricking the vamp by holding their breath, then sharing a tube that they blow-out their breath into, so the vampire is confused as to exactly where they are.

Remember the hopping-vampires can only find you by your breath, so it makes for much hilarity ensue-ing in ;'MR. VAMPIRE!' DITA could wax and vacs on about this brilliantly done Asian Horror-Comedy but will stop here and highly suggest watching it with a group of friends on a BIG-SCREEN HIGH-DEF TV with surround sound, a big bowl of popcorn, a pitcher full of frozen margaritas with lights down low!

DITA gives my favorite 'Hopping-Vampire' Fright Comedy Flick high on Comedy ,Action and Culty Asian Folklore -goodness a perfect Score of 3 Skulls Out Of A 3 Skulls Score!
Lastly DITA will be Reviewing More of these Films such as Part 2 and More. So to see the Trailer for 'MR. VAMPIRE 2',simply Click Here> https://youtu.be/CrJVeT2fQ38?si=UTDxeXtJrqy3Apun 

'HAPPY ASIAN HERITAGE MONTH', my little 'Coffin-Creepers!'

Till next week when DITA brings you another 'Asian-Themed' horror and/or Cult Flick,
'CHAINSAW-KISSES'
DITA ('MANTRA' ) DIRT NAP
(Click here to see that exact Music-Video from K-POP Singer; 'JENNI''> https://youtu.be/bB3-CUMERIU?si=eFmSv-XnbzVmBUT5 )

 P.S. DITA also wants to also check out My Hubby; 'B.J. And I's favorite Asian Flick that' s popularity has sky rocketed from NETFLIX to a global scale called 'K-POP DEMON HUNTERS'. We have the Soundtrack for it in our 'Drag-Mobile' and have almost worn it out! DITA Highly suggest watching it on Netflix if you haven't already! It's fantastic Flick from start to finish and has a phenomenal Soundtrack that even won a Grammy.
Click on the 'Vinyl-Icon' and/or 'CD-Icon' to get yours now!

Click here to see the Trailer for; 'K-POP DEMON HUNTERS'> https://youtu.be/3JTVQTk36R8?si=f085l42knFciFQSX

As per 'usual' here are some 'DITA-Suggested'-Sites of importance, Hon;
www.stopasianhate.org  A website dedicated to raising awareness about the injustices and hate crimes against Asians in the West.
www.fangoria.com 
www.blackpink.com
www.jenni.com 
www.facebook.com/BlackPink
www.blacklivesmatter.com  Global Network builds power to bring justice, healing, and freedom to Black people across the globe.
www.legendfims.com
www.elvira.com  (Check Out her NEW 'MAY-Merch' and More!)
www.somethingweird.com
www.mymoviemonster.com  (Scary Monsters Magazine!)
www.electricduskdrivein.com  (Movies In May Schedule! DITA highly suggests checking them out!)
www.thenewbev.com  (DITA & RENFIELD's Hang-Out Haunt, Hon! We saw a BELA LUGOSI TRIPLE FEATURE there just last month.)
www.radiohalloween.com 
www.facebook.com/DJDugGraves  (Check Out DUG GRAVES HORROR-RADIO SHOW Every Friday Night says DITA!!!)