Surprisingly, the film more than lives up to its title. That is all you really need to know. It is a jack-in-the-box of wonderful weirdness that never stops. Perhaps giving it 8 stars is rather absurd and silly but I just appreciate a film where anything and everything gets thrown into the pot in a way that could only have been made in Hong Kong. Once upon a time. I can't see this being made today. But it was a period in HK films in which they were being very inventive - the New Wave, Tsui Hark, Cinema City and the Seven Fortune films (Jackie, Sammo and Yuen Biao) taking martial arts to a different place. This is so much fun - ridiculous for sure but how can you not love a film that has massive amounts of kung-fu mixed in with ghosts, vampires, wizards, pulling the hearts out of copulating couples, killer zombies, spells that make people invulnerable by spitting blood into their face, sexy girls throwing their panties at the Wizard and more kung-fu. And it is as non-stop madness as a film is legally allowed to be by section 5 paragraph 4 of the penal code. I wish I had a better copy - mine was murky and dubbed. You are never sure if it is bad dubbing when a fellow who has been almost beaten to death by three adversaries says to their question "Is he dead?" - "three against one. Of course I am dead" and dies.



This is another revenge your father film but with a twist. It is the seventh month of the lunar holiday and all the ghosts are given a get out of Hell card to be redeemed any time. They come on out to eat all the treats that people have so kindly left out for them. But Chun Sing (Billy Chow) also receives a visit from his father. His dead father. Who asks him to revenge his death by killing his murderer many years before. Why he waited so long is hard to say  - perhaps time is confusing when you are dead - but Chun just tells mom (Ou-Yang Sha-fei - Shaw actress) hey I have to go kill the man that killed dad. His ghost just made a request. Ok son but be careful. Good motherly advice.



He gets to the man's home which is protected by a large number of men plus a wizard. This is Kam played by another Shaw once upon a time star, Lo Lieh, and the wizard is played by Addy Sung, who is quickly becoming a favorite and was also in the Billy Chong vehicle, Crystal Fist. Chun doesn't mess around - he walks right in with a swagger and declares that he is here to kill Kam. Ha, ha, ha. And proceeds to beat every one up till the Wizard and his spells steps in. So how to fight a wizard. Wake up the dead and pay them to attack him. The Wizard counters with a gweilo vampire. Chun counters with garlic. A draw but he is helped in the fight by a government official (Alan Chui - who in the 1980s and 90s became a regular villain in triad films).


It just gets better. A few terrific scenes take place in a graveyard with bones reaching out of their unmarked graves, some fabulous martial arts, the scene with the dead, the zombie, the Wizard and Chun goes on for a long while and keeps throwing curve balls, Chong's fight against Lo Lieh is a treat. Obviously not a film for most - but it tickled me pink.