HOPPING MAD
The Nonwalking Dead
RELEASED OUT NOW 1986-1989
| 15 | Blu-ray Directors Ricky Lau, Lam Ching-ying
Cast Lam Ching-Ying, Yuen Biao, Wu Ma, Richard Ng
BLU-RAY DEBUT How to make
multiple sequels to a hit without repeating yourself? Well, you could always make movies that are almost totally unrelated.
This was, it seems, Hong Kong distributor Golden Harvest’s strategy when it came to their 1985 horror-comedy Mr Vampire – the film that introduced most Western viewers to jiāngshī, the hopping corpses of Chinese folklore which are their nearest equivalent to Dracula and his ilk. The four follow-ups in this box set share similar themes, and some of the same cast (Lam Ching-ying, a taoist priest in the original, plays similar characters in three films), but otherwise go their own way.