Encounters of the Spooky Kind
Encounters of the Spooky Kind is a 1980 Hong Kong martial arts comedy horror film directed by and starring Sammo Hung, who also wrote the film with Huang Ying, and produced by Hung's production company Bo Ho Film Company. Released as Spooky Encounters in the United States and also known as Close Encounters of the Spooky Kind, the latter title more blatantly mimicking the title of the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Encounters of the Spooky Kind was the progenitor of the jiangshi film genre and one of Hong Kong's first action horror comedies.
Plot
The film starts with Bold Cheung having a nightmare about two ghosts, an elder and the young adult, first in a wine jar and then as a human. Cheung narrowly escapes the two ghosts, but they still pursue him.
More details
author | Sammo Hung Wong Ying |
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director | Sammo Hung |
editor | Peter Cheung |
genre | action comedy horror |
keywords | abandoned house coffin corpse dragon taming arhat draw eighteen arhats evil force film star fly haunted house hide hong hai er injured jiangshi kick out lu dong bin lü dongbin monkey god monkey king on the run peeping tom possess red boy scold sword fight vampire win witch young adult |
musicBy | Frankie Chan |
producer | Raymond Chow |
publisher | Orange Sky Golden Harvest |
theme | comedy horror ghost kung fu martial arts trick |