Mitchell HB’s review published on Letterboxd:
"Remember to bring sticky rice."
Hooptober 5.0 #6 (fulfills country requirement)
Thank you, Cinemonster, for creating this challenge and insisting that we pick movies from at least six countries. I went looking for international horror and found this Hong Kong martial arts vampire comedy gem.
You really don't want to get bitten by a jiangshi, a hopping vampire. For one thing, the hopping motion is both hilarious and creepy to behold. Then, to avoid turning into a vampire yourself, you will be forced not only to eat a lot of sticky rice but to sleep and jump barefoot on uncooked sticky rice as well (regular rice doesn't work at all, I'm afraid). If you don't follow the steps and do end up growing fangs and claws, you will need to have them filed down—they won't go back to normal by themselves, even if the infection heals. Also, Master Kau, the leading expert on vampirism prevention and control, doesn't exactly have a light touch with his patients, so you'd better be ready to deal with all that sticky rice and/or get your ass kicked multiple times a day. (The hopping vampire concept comes straight from Chinese folklore, but I don't know if the rest of the factoids above are also based on existing myth or were invented for this movie.)
So there's that, and then there's a sadistic, incompetent police captain who almost gets his dick bitten off by his vampire uncle, and a whole subplot with a ghost looking for true love and/or unending sex, and a guy whose job is apparently to escort vampires who have been induced to sleep by spells written out and stuck to their faces. Oh, and I guess there's a gorilla chasing some dudes off his hill, too. It's all just unhinged and glorious. Where have you been all my life, Mr. Vampire?