Director: Wellson Chin
Cast: Michael Chow Man-Kit, Anya, Ken Change

Asia loves mixing up their kung fu with monsters on occasion, though the end result is not always as great as one would hope. Tsui Hark’s Vampire Hunters is not Hark’s best work; in fact, it’s not even really his! The director of Once Upon a China, Time and Tide and, um, Black Mask 2 merely serves as screenwriter of this horror-action combo that offers nothing new, but does an okay job of doing what very little it does.

Four guys – named Thunder, Wind, Rain and … I can’t remember, Precipitation? – spend their days fighting vampires and zombies. That’s about all the plot there is, which explains why the film often slows to a halt whenever they’re not fighting the vampires and zombies. There’s some mumbo-jumbo about a treasure of gold and a wax museum, but really, all you want to see is gore and wirework. It gives you that, but not as much as you’d like.