Robo Vampire (1988) Over-the-top 'Weird Asia' by Godfrey Ho
8747DVD
director: Godfrey
Ho (Ho Chung Sing)
starring Robin Mackan · Nian Watts · Harry Myles ·
Nick Norman · Sorapong Chatree
From the Letterboxd
review: PAST AND PRESENT MEET IN THE LAND OF TURMOIL ---
"Narcotics agent Tom Wilde is given a second chance at life after
being shot and killed. In a futuristic experiment, agent Wilde is returned
to life as an Android Robot. He is sent on a very dangerous mission into
the depths of the golden Triangle to rescue Sophie, a beautiful undercover
agent who has been captured by the evil drug warlord Mr. Young and his
inhuman creation the Vampire Gorilla Beast."
Here
is one of Cult Movies most notorious films, from mix-and-match specialist
Godrey Ho (Ho Chung Sing), a man who spent a lifetime taking chunks of
unrelated B-movies and smashing them together into one new film (eg.,
ANGEL
THE KICKBOXER with Yukari Oshima or CROCODILE
FURY). As suggestd in the Letterboxd review above, this movie
is bad but amazing. Where else could you find a RoboCop ripoff
with drugdealers capturing a half-naked undercover female spy while resurrecting
vampires [including a Gorilla vampire beast]. Whew!
A
Hong Kong film in English language; in DVD encoded for
ALL REGION NTSC, playable on any American DVD machine.
Extras include original theatrical trailer.
