Uh boy here we go again – YES, it is yet an-udder wackadoodle chop-socky/ninja/vampire mash-up from the the one and only Godfrey Ho, and this frisky little gobbler is full of…well, something. Check out the Latest Episode of Indie Film Cafe, in which Moody, the MooCow, and special guest co-host JoLynn try to make sense of this weird, over-the-top hopping-vampire moovie madness! GOOD LUCK!!! :=8O
Soooo…there is this group of young Asian girls who work for…someone, they have some friends, there is this red ninja, a black ninja, a witch who resurrects some hopping vampires, and somewhere along the line these disparate elements cowbine in what can only be construed as some kind of black devil magic brew of a film, in which several separate moovies are ground together to make hash…errr, a Godfrey Ho film. same thing. Down Among the “Z” Movies says it best:
“I’m planning a post with 20-25 more Godfrey Ho films, which are largely interchangeable – he takes two unrelated films and splices them together to make a new, often incomprehensible, one.”
Behold the Godfrey Ho experience. You can always tell his ninja moovies from someone else’s because in the Godfrey Ho world dark shadowy secret invisible assassin ninjas generally run around in broad daylight wearing bright neon costumes, and usually with a headband with the word NINJA sewn on, sort of what you might find in a dime store back in the 80’s.
The ninja/hopping vampire flick is liberally spliced into the girls and the hotel industry flick, making it so that it appears the Red Ninja is trying to stop the black ninja from using his hoard of evil hopping vampires from taking over the Hong Kong hotel industry, because…reasons. Honestly, I would love to go to a Hopping Chinese Vampire hotel – BOOOO Red Ninja, yer spoiling our fun!
Among the madness is one of my favorite chop-socky scenes of all time, when Red Ninja in the form of blonde cutie Deborah Grant is attacked while she suns on her beach blanket from below by a sand-dwelling hopping vampire, you know as you do…so weird!
And if you love the oddball Asian hopping vampire, known as Jiangshi, like we do, well this is one of those moovies that has ’em in spades – and they really seem to be enjoying themselves too!
But the best jaw-dropping scene of them all is when Deborah Grant survives an assassination attempt when someone tries to drop a pig on top of her from a roof, which then turns into a hopping vampire, which sadly hops away after it fails its task. Simply amazing!
Well, the votes are in, and yeahhhhh, this flick is the stuff that 10’s are made from – and both Moody and the MooCow simply had to award 10’s to this ridiculous Godfrey Ho nonsense; JoLynn has a warm spot in here heart for hopping vampires (don’t we all?), and went with a 9.5, giving VRVTNQ Stink Total of 29.5, which is a Stinky Average of 9.8! On the Ladder of Stink this flick is tied with Geteven and Curse of the Mummy Cat, a couple of real stinkers that juuuuust missed Stinky Heaven! Oh so close!
Well, I wish I had a trailer for you, but Godfrey Ho doesn’t really do trailers, they cost money! But someone did upload it to Youtube, so if you wanna check it out for free, there you go. It is floating around Prime too. And it has been saved on the Internet Archive, as it should be. As for physical media, this is one of those very difficult moovies to find – BUT, you can find it through folks like DVD Lady, and you can find the VHS tape on LastDoDo. Udderwise u have to go overseas for places like ZDDVM to find copies, and hope they work on your American machines. There IS a DVD combo that came out that you can find every now and then on EBAY which pairs this moovie along with Dracula The Love Story To Die For – grab it if you can find it! It also pops up on Amazon every now and then too. I also found it on Deep Discount.com and FYE! Sorry, no real schwag for this flick, but it is discussed at B&S About Movies and SoGoodReviews.com.
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