The Vampire Who Admires
Me
Director: Cub Chin King-hon
Rating: 5.5
Year: 2008
This was rather stupid fun. It was like a ride
back into the horror comedy films that proliferated in the late 1990s in
fare like Bio-Zombie, the Troublesome Night films and the anthologies with
times in the title like Midnight Zone and 1 a.m. The only thing it was missing
was an appearance from Helen Law Lan who was in nearly all the horror films
of that period. And they actually had a part for her here. A lost opportunity.
It is a silly mix of goofy comedy, goofier horror and lots of not so goofy
well-presented cleavage. I am a fan of that genre if there is one. I can
watch nicely built girls in bikinis running around in terror for an easy
90-minutes. And if a few of them are killed along the way, so be it. Thanks
for the mammaries.
Produced by Wong Jing and all that goes along with that. He hires six gorgeous
women most who were professional models to do a lot of screaming. They are
fine at it. Some better than others but screaming is a talent. I don't think
I am capable of a good scream. I am not familiar with any of these actresses
though they all seem to have gone on to ok careers in films. It is hard to
judge these days because there are just so many fewer films being made, so
many primarily do TV these days. A few faces I know - Sam Lee and Samuel
Pang who are always fun to come across - and Jo Kuk as the female cop who
has been in many fine films but never gotten the credit she deserves. Oh,
and how can I forget the legendary Wong Tin-lam - great director back in
the day and later actor in some Milkyway films - and father of Wong Jing.
He is the prisoner in this film who urinates in front of the police station
in order to get arrested and have a place to stay. So a good cast of newcomers
and established actors.
Pang runs a modeling agency and has a contract to do a shoot with a horror
motif. Sam Lee is the photographer and insists that the shoot take place
with a good scary atmosphere. It so happens that Pang has an ancient home
left to him on East Dragon Island. The grandmother of one of the models Macy
(JJ Jia) warns her not to - that it is a bad place. She knows what she is
talking about since she is in fact a ghost. Macy has been able to see ghosts
since she was a child and she and grandma have a nice comfy relationship
while grandma waits to be reincarnated. Macy has good advice on ghosts such
as never use the last bathroom stall because that is where ghosts go. I always
assumed ghosts never had to go the bathroom - that it was one of the benefits
of being a ghost.
Well, sure enough the island is full of dangers. A girl is missing who was
dragged into a grave. She turns into a vampire. Vampires start popping up
everywhere. Some of this party are turned into vampires, some just killed.
Then the King Vampire shows up and all hell breaks loose. Silly and yet still
surprising when one of them gets killed. A little romance breaks out between
bites and that never seems to work out well. This is basic Wong Jing territory
- a little tease and a lot of silliness.
