''The Musical Vampire'' ( zh, t=音樂殭屍) is a 1992 comedy horror

Hong Kong film The cinema of Hong Kong ( zh, t=香港電影) is one of the three major threads in the history of Chinese language cinema, alongside the cinema of China and the cinema of Taiwan. As a former British colony, Hong Kong had a greater degree of pol ...

directed by Wilson Tong and starring Lam Ching-ying. It is a spin-off of the 1985 Hong Kong film '' Mr. Vampire''. Lam Ching-ying reprises his role as a

Taoist Taoism (, ) or Daoism () refers to either a school of philosophical thought (道家; ''daojia'') or to a religion (道教; ''daojiao''), both of which share ideas and concepts of Chinese origin and emphasize living in harmony with the '' Tao ...

priest.

Plot

A scientist reanimates a corpse with a chemical, creating a

Jiangshi A jiāngshī, also known as a Chinese hopping vampire, is a type of reanimated corpse in Chinese legends and folklore. The characters for "jiāngshī" are read goeng-si in Cantonese, cương thi in Vietnamese, kyonshī in Japanese, and gangsi ...

. The corpse can only be controlled by the sound of music. Taoist priest ( Lam Ching-ying) and his two assistants must stop it before it destroys the countryside.

Cast

* Lam Ching-ying as Uncle Master * Rachel Lee as Chu-Chu * Dickson Lee as Ah Hoo * Stanley Fung as Master * Charlie Cho Cha-Lee as Captain Tsao * Xiong Xin-Xin as Ah Keung * Tai Bo as Little Three * Wong Chi-Keung as vampire *James M. Crockett as foreign scientist * essoR onitnelaV

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