Mr. Vampire

Mr. Vampire
Original Hong Kong film poster
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	殭屍先生
Simplified Chinese	僵尸先生
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Jiāngshī Xiānshēng Yue: Cantonese Jyutping Goeng1 Si1 Sin1 Sang1
Directed by	Ricky Lau
Written by	Sze-to Cheuk-hon Barry Wong Wong Ying
Produced by	Sammo Hung
Starring	Ricky Hui Moon Lee Chin Siu-ho Lam Ching-ying Wong Siu-fung Billy Lau
Cinematography	Peter Ngor
Edited by	Peter Cheung
Music by	Anders Nelsson Alastair Monteith-Hodge The Melody Bank
Production companies	Bo Ho Films Co., Ltd. Paragon Films Ltd.
Distributed by	Golden Harvest
Release date	7 November 1985 (1985-11-07)
Running time	96 minutes
Country	Hong Kong
Language	Cantonese
Budget	HK$8,500,000
Box office	HK$20,092,129

Mr. Vampire (Chinese: 殭屍先生) is a 1985 Hong Kong comedy horror film directed by Ricky Lau and produced by Sammo Hung. The film's box office success led to the creation of a Mr. Vampire franchise, with the release of four sequels directed by Ricky Lau from 1986 to 1992, and subsequent similarly themed films with different directors released between 1987 and 1992, with Lam Ching-ying as the lead for the majority of them. The vampire of the film is based on the jiangshi, the hopping corpses of Chinese folklore (similar to both zombies and vampires). The film was released under the Chinese title 暫時停止呼吸 (literally: Hold Your Breath for a Moment) in Taiwan. The film was the breakthrough success of the jiangshi genre, a trend popular in Hong Kong during the 1980s, and established many of the genre's recognisable tropes.^[1]