Crazy Kung-Fu
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aka Painted Skin
Lam Ching-Ying has another outing as a Taoist priest, this time battling ghosts.
aka Spiritual Trinity
Lam Ching-Ying returns as a Taoist priest getting himself involved in a ghostly love triangle.
aka An Eternal Combat
Lam Ching-Ying plays a Taoist priest who gets sucked from the past into modern-day Hong Kong where he has to continue busting ghosts.
aka Vampire's Breakfast
Vampire comedy cash-in.
aka Thunder Cops or Operation Pink Squad II
aka Here Comes a Vampire
Kind of a Thunder Cops sequel.
aka Demon Strike
While it is not up there with the brain-melting antics of Boxer's Omen, Shaolin Drunkard, Tai Chi Drunkard and the like it, does have some memorable scenes as our heroes try and track down the book Mao Shan Tricks. It is perhaps most notable for the use of a nearly naked women and the attempts by an evil wizard to harvest her "women's blood" to give himself laser powers - Mao Shan Tricks indeed!!
aka The Spiritual Boxer
There are spells, possession by gods and ghosts, but all of it is a con (as is often the case in these early films). Still it has a lot of the elements you'll see become popular in later films in this list and is a solid and engaging story too.
aka Saga of the Phoenix
Peacock King sequel.
aka Drunken Dragon
Some peculiar magic ceremonies, mixed in with some pretty bizarre kung-fu battles, wacky inventions and possibly the wildest set of villains (I mean, one has a giant candle on his head). When those are combined it results in some of the strangest fights I've seen (a rowboat? on land?). And that is just th first five minutes!
aka Wu-Tang Master or Shaolin Drunkard
A drunken monk sleeps through a sneaky thief breaking out a wizard of impressive evilness who needs virgin blood for some wicked purpose. What follows is a mind-boggling weird series of encounters, all with a giant toad hunting down the good guys.
aka The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires
Coming full circle, after earlier HK horror being influenced by Hammer, the Shaw Brothers entered into a co-production with them, a move that really kickstarted the modern era of modern Hong Kong horror movies. There isn't much kung-fu but it has Christopher Lee as Van Helsing, Dracula, Chinese vampires and a zombie army, which does result in a mess with neither side able to bring their A game.
aka Tales of a Corpse-Ridden Old House or Walking Corpse in an Old House (hence the "shi" for "corpse")
One I'm flagging up for investigation, it was made the year after the director made what is widely considered to be the first Chinese horror movie, a genre this apparently fits into as well, although details of the plot are difficult to find (well I can't find any but it might be it is in Chinese). At this time quite a few of these films were more inspired by Universal's monster horror, although quite what might inspire this is unclear - it sounds like a zombie film but, if so, it'd be the fifth or sixth ever made, which would be quite good going.
aka Fearful Interlude
Apparently an anthology of three parts: "The Haunted House," "The Cold Skeleton" and "A Wolf of Ancient Times."
aka Zombie in a Haunted House
Plot synopsis here:
http://www.abandomoviez.net/db/pelicula.php?film=27435