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Special Features

 

  • Scene Access
  • Interactive Menus
  • Photo Galleries
  • Digitally Remastered
  • Feature Length Audio Commentary with Hong Kong Cinema Expert Bey Logan
  • Trailer Gallery
  • Interview Gallery with Sammo Hung

Review

 

Sammo Hung plays Courageous Cheung, a cuckolded husband who faces a series of supernatural challenges from his wife's wealthy lover. First, Cheung must survive a night in a house haunted by a bloodthirsty vampire. From there, things just get worse, and more comical. For those unfamiliar with the Chinese horror genre, the film is a wild ride through the supernatural mythology and folklore of China: hopping corpses, supernatural possession by a monkey god, the gratuitous sacrifice of a chicken, and lots of chanting by Taoist priests. For Chinese viewers in the early 1980s, the film was unusual in other ways: director Sammo Hung mixed comedy, martial arts, and supernatural horror into this bouillabaise of a film, establishing the genre of kung-fu horror comedy...

Customer Reviews

 

Customer rating on Encounters Of The Spooky Kind - Special Edition: 5 out of 5 stars

Average rating (1 review)

Customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars Kung fu horror comedy classic.

backinblack | 02/05/2007 | See all backinblack's reviews (79) »

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Fun, packed with comedy and kung fu this early Sammo Hung film has all the masters trademarks stamped all over it. A must have for the kung fu movie fan. A classic of it's time.

Technical Details

 

Sammo Hung, Wu Ma, Lam Ching Ying, Chan Lung & Chung Fa

Sammo Hung

18 years and over

1980

Widescreen 16:9 Anamorphic

Cantonese ; English (Dubbed) - Dolby Digital (5.1)

English ; Dutch

1 hour and 38 minutes (approx)

Region 2 - Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players.

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