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Information
- A.k.a.
- Mr. Vampire Part 3
- Year
- 1987
- Runtime
- 88 min.
- Director
- Ricky Lau
- Genres
- Action, Comedy, Horror
- Rating *
- 6.7
- Votes *
- 257
- Checks
- 36
- Favs
- 1
- Dislikes
- 0
- Favs/checks
- 2.8% (1:36)
- Favs/dislikes
- 1:0
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Siskoid
It's back to the past in Mr. Vampire III, which has the best chance of showing weird wuxia magic anyway, so that's where the franchise should stay. It does borrow a kid ghost from the second film, however, and to much better effect. In this one, Richard Ng plays a comedy Taoist priest who has magic powers, but is mostly faking hauntings with his two endearing ghost pals. Ng gives one of his best performances, funny but restrained, and bares all for his art. But if there's a comedy hero, comedy ghosts and a (pretty annoying actually) comedy villain (ok, foil), there are also straight versions of these two: Mr. Vampire steady Lam Ching-Ying is a powerful master Taoist fighting an evil witch with wild powers animating ghost brigands. It's a lot of fun and more than a little like Ghostbusters with wine jars acting as ghost traps. Though the action is strong and varied, and the gags land much of the time, it's the friendly ghosts and their fate you care most about. That's more to care about than the previous sequel ever gave us. Sammo Hung has a cameo. Weird missing scene to make sense of those puppies (probably a mercy). Definitely one of the good ones! 6 months 3 weeks ago