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Yes that is stolen Eerie Publications artwork on that DVD cover. Those covers are why I grabbed a pile of those Video Asia double features. Most which have sat on my shelf unwatched. Wanted something I had never seen today and the title Ninja Vampire Busters caught my eye.
Made in 1989 this is a Hong Kong horror/fantasy/comedy. We see a bunch of rebels attacking a place. The fat owner only wants to make sure they do not disturb a urn. Seems an EVIL SPIRIT is in that urn. The urn ends up going off a cliff and into the ocean.
500 years later the son of a rich man bids on this urn as a joke. The urn is won and ends up in the rich man's lavish apartment. Now yea I get that in a crowded place like Hong Kong lavish means a place bigger than normal,but this apartment appears to be half the size of my home and my home is not that big.
The son's asshole friends are around and one of them uses the urn as an ashtray. Which releases the spirit. Who possesses various members of the family.
Leading up to a long fight at the end between someone who is possessed and what looks like the fat guy from the prologue but now with a shit stache.
No vampires in the film,mostly demon looking things after someone becomes possessed by the evil spirit. And really no ninjas. Thinking this was retitled in the states to tap into that Ninja and Vampire trend in the 80s.
Way way more comedy than horror. And very broad comedy. But I have come to expect that with Hong Kong movies.
This being from Video Asia I am sure they just toook some old ex rental VHS they found and did a straight dupe from that to a dvd-r. It looks like that was the case. The picture has that blurry look old cheap vhs had. The sound for the last 10 minutes goes up and down. And the film cuts off before thhe credits finish.
Ninja Vampire Busters gets a D+
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