The Spooky Family
Director: Chin Yuet-sang
Year: 1990
Rating: 6.0
In this pleasant
but not overtly funny comedy, Kent Cheng is both a vampire hunter and collector.
His son assists him, while his wife and daughter tell fortunes. He has two
vampires up in the attic and tells his son to go dust them, but don’t play
any jokes on the sleeping vampire. He is busy working on a “Human and Corpse
Linking Machine” that will allow him to control the minds of the dead.
Word comes to him that a Copper Vampire is on the loose. This is a special
type of powerful vampire and he and his son go off to capture it. After a
fierce battle they are able to control the vampire and bring it back home.
At some point though the vampire frees itself and becomes more powerful than
ever and the entire family must enter the battle. The family also needs the
assistance of Nina Li, another vampire specialist.
This is pretty much played for humor though
after watching this I had the strangest dreams. I am not sure if it was
the film or the Chinese meal I had though !
Sandra Ng and Shing Fui-On have small cameos
in the film.
