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Jiangshi of Encounters of the Spooky Kind

FilmUndeadHopsSorcery1968 to 1999

Sammo Hung's film mixes kung fu, comedy and Chinese ghost lore, including a hopping corpse sent to kill the hero. It opened the way for the jiangshi boom that Mr. Vampire completed five years later. Critics have called it a near-peerless blend of comedy, horror and kung fu.1

Battle it
First appeared
1980
Released 1980
Source work
Encounters of the Spooky Kind (1980)
Sammo Hung
Age rating
15 (UK)
Made in
Hong Kong
What causes it
Sorcery
A sorcerer animates and steers a corpse.
How it moves
Hops
It hops.
Weak spots
  • sunrise
  • dog's blood breaks the sorcerer's control

When did it first appear?

Ancient worldMiddle Ages1500 to 18991900 to 19671968 to 19992000 to 20092010 to today1980

Released 1980

field notes

What the sources say

1

The corpse is a weapon directed by a hired sorcerer1

2

Sunrise sends it back to its coffin1

3

One of the first Hong Kong action horror comedies1

4

It popularised jiangshi films, though it was not the first to show one1

5

Yuen Biao plays one of the undead1

Could you outrun it?

Speed class from how the sources describe it (hops), not a measurement.

You, walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Jiangshi of Encounters of the Spooky Kind about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
You, jogging about 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
A fit adult sprinting about 24 km/h (15 mph)
A fast cyclist about 37 km/h (23 mph)

Sources

  1. Encounters of the Spooky Kind - Wikipedia

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Same era: 1968 to 1999

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