1980 · kung-fu · horror · comedy
Spooky Encounters
Directed by Sammo Hung Kam-Bo1h 44m1980
"Big Guts" Cheung, a man well known in his local village for his lack of fear, is put to the test after being tricked into spending the night in a temple full of spirits, zombies, and vampires.
Our read: Spooky Encounters (1980) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive kung-fu · horror · comedy entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured kung-fu / horror, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- intense
- inventive
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