26. A Chinese Ghost Story dir. by Siu-Tung Ching (1987)
If you like wire kung-fu, demon-horror, romance, comedy films starring Leslie Cheung, then you’ll probably like A Chinese Ghost Story (I did).
Leslie Cheung plays a tax collector that stays the night in a haunted temple, meets a talented swordsman, and falls in love with a ghost. Unfortunately, an evil tree spirit comes between our two lovers with it’s gigantic tongue that bleeds what I assume is white, milky tree sap… I mean, I hope that’s what it is.
A pretty unique film (that spawned two sequels). Slow at times, but ultimately entertaining.
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24. Dance of the Dead dir. by Gregg Bishop (2008)
Dance of the Dead ended up being a lot more entertaining than I’d anticipated. There’s just too much here to like.
Prom night turns out to be less than stellar for a group of teens when the dead start blasting out (literally) of their graves and taking out their undead boredom on the local townspeople. It’s up to a group of misfits (the sci-fi club, the loser pizza delivery driver, the class vice-president, and the 3-year senior bully) to put a stop to the zombie menace and warn their classmates of the epidemic before the zombies can reach the school gym.
Going into this, I expected some awful MTV mad-for-tv movie. Boy was I wrong. This movie was fun, gory, romantic, hilarious, and had some genuinely original and entertaining zombie kills. While it’s not in my top 10 horror films of all time, it’s an incredibly fun film to watch, and great Halloween horror fluff if you’re looking to relax and not feel too invested in a movie.
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