--- title: 'Mr. Vampire (1985)' type: 'film' director: 'Ricky Lau' released: '1985-01-01' runtime_minutes: 96 genres: - 'Action' countries: - 'Hong Kong' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/mr-vampire-1985' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089371/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Mr. Vampire (1985) 1985 · 96 min · Action · Hong Kong ## Synopsis Mr. Vampire is a 1985 Hong Kong comedy horror film directed by Ricky Lau and produced by Sammo Hung. The film's box office success led to the creation of a Mr. Vampire franchise, with the release of four sequels directed by Ricky Lau from 1986 to 1992, and subsequent similarly themed films with different directors released between 1987 and 1992, with Lam Ching-ying as the lead for the majority of them. The vampire of the film is based on the jiangshi, the hopping corpses of Chinese folklore. The film was released under the Chinese title 暫時停止呼吸 in Taiwan. The film was the breakthrough success of the jiangshi genre, a trend popular in Hong Kong during the 1980s, and established many of the genre's recognisable tropes. ## Credits - **Director:** [Ricky Lau](https://cinepixo.com/people/ricky-lau) - **Screenplay:** [Barry Wong](https://cinepixo.com/people/barry-wong) - **Original Music Composer:** [Anders Nelsson](https://cinepixo.com/people/anders-nelsson) - **Producer:** [Sammo Hung](https://cinepixo.com/people/sammo-hung) - **Director of Photography:** [Peter Ngor](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-ngor) - **Editor:** [Peter Cheung](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-cheung) ## Cast - [Chin Siu-ho](https://cinepixo.com/people/chin-siu-ho) - [Ricky Hui](https://cinepixo.com/people/ricky-hui) - [Yuen Wah](https://cinepixo.com/people/yuen-wah) - [Moon Lee](https://cinepixo.com/people/moon-lee) - [Lam Ching-ying](https://cinepixo.com/people/lam-ching-ying) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/mr-vampire-1985 Film facts: Wikidata (Q1185829); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.