| Director Wong Chung (former Shaw Brother's actor in movies such as Killer Clans and later turned director) handles Kent Cheng's reporter Piao's battles with a vampire and the police in a fairly refreshingly balanced way (basically choosing to rarely let the elements of comedy, crude social commentary and horror interfere with each other). It's also easier therefore to differentiate it from other similar genre excursions of the era and expectedly, Wong scores more points when dealing with the horror that includes melting corpses, gory decapitations (ok...one), enveiled in a professional frame co-lensed by Arthur Wong. The romance angle between the unlikely pair of Kent Cheng and Emily Chu is rough though as there needs to be more substance for it to work but occasionally the stars share some chemistry and it's certainly not the make or break element of this entertaining film. Co-starring Parkman Wong and Wu Ma. |
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