I stumbled upon the 1989 Hong Kong horror comedy "Yi Mei Dao Ren" (aka "Vampire vs. Vampire") by random chance here in 2024. And I had never actually seen the movie before. And given my love of the Hong Kong cinema, of course I opted to sit down and watch it.
The storyline in this 1989 vampire movie was a bit too much on the downright silly side for my liking. There was a bit too much childish and stupid comedy in the movie, especially with the child vampire. And it sort of reflected poorly on the overall impression of "Yi Mei Dao Ren", making it a subpar movie in comparison to the many other vampire movies that Ching-Ying Lam also starred in.
Writers Kam Cheong Chan, Chi-Leung Shum and Mei-Yee Sze didn't really impress me with the script they conjured up for this movie. And it was a weak foray into the Jiangshi (Chinese hopping vampire) subgenre of movies.
The character gallery in the movie was okay. Though the child vampire grew very tiring to watch and listen to.
Nice to see the likes of Ching-Ying Lam, Sandra Kwan Yue Ng and Siu-Ho Chin on the cast list. The acting performances in the movie were okay, despite the fact that the script was a dumpster fire.
"Yi Mei Dao Ren" was a very difficult movie to sit through, and I found very little entertainment or enjoyment throughout the course of the 88 minutes that the movie ran for. And this is definitely not a movie that I will be returning to watch a second time.
My rating of director Ching-Ying Lam's 1989 movie "Yi Mei Dao Ren" lands on a four out of ten stars.
