Anyway, this very mild film is played more
for laughs than for chills and it begins with seven adults struggling onto
the beach after their ship has gone down. One of them looks familiar as she
lays face down in the sand struggling for breath. As they turn her over,
the indentation left in the sand leaves no doubt as to who it is - the Yipster
- literally making an impression right from the start!
They find themselves on an island inhabited
only by little vampires and some ghoul stuck in a mud wall. Most of this
is pretty silly, but actually the little vampires hopping around in those
lovely blue mandarin costumes with white faces look pretty cool. In one scene
in which they camouflage themselves in green leaves is quite pictorially
stunning and could have been scary if that was the directors intent. For
some reason Amy Yip is not the focus of this movie and there are no great
Yipster moments in it after that initial impression on the beach! A few of
the others to come ashore are Sandra Ng, Billy Lau and muscle man Frankie
Chan. Shing Fu-on is a vampire.
