The Mr. Vampire movies in order
There are 21 Mr. Vampire films, about 29.4 hours in total. The first was released in 1980, the latest in 1993. Watching in release order is the safest way to meet the story as audiences did.
Mr Vampire 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 1991. The film was released under the Chinese title 暫時停止呼吸 (literally: Hold Your Breath for a Moment) in Taiwan.
- 1
Encounters of the Spooky Kind (1980)
24 Dec 1980 · 104 min
"Big Guts" Cheung, a man well known in his local village for his lack of fear, is put to the test after being tricked into spending the night in a temple full of spirits, zombies, and vampires.
- 2
The Dead and the Deadly (1982)
22 Dec 1982 · 99 min
Wah Li, known as Fat Boy to his friends, lives with his great-uncle the priest (Uncle). Together with his oddball friends Lai Li and Momo, Wah Li helps Uncle to run the local funeral services. When the body Ma Lun Chio is brought back to the village by a new wife and her "brother", Wai Li is suspicious. He sets out to find out how his friend died, but things are not what they seem.
- 3
Hocus Pocus (1984)
12 Jan 1984 · 93 min
This movie follows in the same spirit as Mr. Vampire, Dead and the deadly and Spooky encounters, mixing comedy and horror!
- 4
Those Merry Souls (1985)
30 May 1985 · 95 min
Chiu Chi-Lung and Ng Kuai-Tak are two movie stunt actors in Hong Kong and are suspicious of Lung's father Chiu's mysterious behavior. Unbeknownst to them, Chiu was commissioned as a "messenger" by the Spirit World to take newly-departed souls to the other side. When Tak suffers a major accident on the movie set, Chiu keeps Tak's soul from being taken away, thereby, reviving him.
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Mr. Vampire (1985)
7 Nov 1985 · 98 min
After the planned reburial of a village elder goes awry and the corpse resurrects into a hopping vampire, a Taoist priest and his two disciples attempt to stop him.
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Mr. Vampire II (1986)
15 Aug 1986 · 89 min
Chaos ensues after a team of archaeologists accidentally breaks the seals of a sleeping vampire family, which prevent them from waking up.
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Mr. Vampire III (1987)
17 Dec 1987 · 92 min
The Vampire Master joins forces with another fellow priest with his two pet ghosts along for the ride to defeat an evil witch and her henchman, whose goals are to defeat the human race. The priests must also overcome the odds of the separation between humans and ghosts.
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Mr Vampire Saga 4 (1988)
22 Dec 1988 · 94 min
A Taoist priest protests against the idea of a Buddhist priest being his neighbour. They often argue with each other until a vampire is at large and threatens the villagers' safety.
- 9
Vampire vs. Vampire (1989)
26 Jul 1989 · 90 min
To save the village from paranormal menaces, the One-Eyebrow Priest deals with and battles a host of mysterious creatures including: a little mischievous Chinese vampire; a lustful female ghost; the spirit of a woman murdered by a club owner and a European vampire and his blood-sucking pet bats.
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Encounters of the Spooky Kind II (1990)
9 Feb 1990 · 100 min
Impoverished teahouse worker (and martial-arts student) Abao is engaged to his boss' daughter, Little Chu, and fights to protect her from the lecherous advances of the wealthy but repulsive Master Shi. The two men's romantic rivalry escalates into full-scale supernatural warfare after Shi enlists the aid of a wicked sorcerer, and Abao encounters a benevolent female ghost.
- 11
Mortuary Blues (1990)
11 Aug 1990 · 92 min
On a remote island off Hong Kong, its rich and happy inhabitants are celebrating an annual ritual by staging an operatic show. The island is not productive but its people are rich. No wonder police chief Yuan Kuei becomes suspicious. He thinks he is sitting on top of a narcotics ring. His two men are ordered to watch closely movement of the opera people. Little does the chief know that actually th
- 12
Magic Cop (1990)
1 Nov 1990 · 88 min
A Taoist former cop is called to Hong Kong to assist in the investigation of of a series of strange murders. Aided by two local officers, he runs afoul of an evil sorceress.
- 13
The Ultimate Vampire (1991)
1 Jan 1991 · 88 min
On July 15, the Ghost Gate opens and spirits wander the world. Taoist master Uncle Chiu prepares rituals, but his disciple Wanchai sneaks off to a ghost play and is charmed by the wandering spirit Li. Charleston goes to save him, but also falls for her, and together they unleash the ghosts. To set things right, Uncle Chiu calls on his colleague, Master Kin, but trouble grows when Wanchai and Charl
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Spiritual Trinity (1991)
1 Jan 1991 · 90 min
Two ghostexterminators have been married for many years. But they encounter a ghost they can not manage on their own and therefore ask the wife's old boyfriend for help. This leads to a love triangle while the ghost is stronger than they had imagined.
- 15
An Eternal Combat (1991)
5 Jan 1991
In late 15th century China, The Master, a Taoist priest, has been destined to fight the Japanese Demon King; a vengeful spirit who has power over the forest. The Demon King has fallen in love with a woman named Gigi and forces her to be his bride. As The Master begins his fateful battle with the Demon King, they’re unexpectedly thrust into a time vortex which transports them 500 years into the fut
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Forced Nightmare (1992)
26 Mar 1992
A female psychic leaves her mainland home to visit Hong Kong. Along the way her bus crashes killing everyone on board except her as her powers protected her but it also causes the dead passengers to re-aminate. So, she seeks the help of a famous Tao Priest to put the dead back to rest.
- 17
Wizard's Curse (1992)
19 Jul 1992 · 91 min
Lam Ching Ying is a Taoist wizard who goes to Thailand to help defeat a pair of black magic criminals (Billy Chow and Tsui Man Wah) using huge Taoist charms and good, old-fashioned blood of a black dog. Afterwards, "a fiendish wizard steals the bodies of the two criminals. He anoints them with the sperm of 99 satyrs and the blood collected from the menstrual flow of 99 bitches. The result is th
- 18
Mr Vampire 1992 (1992)
8 Aug 1992 · 88 min
Master Lam and his two disciples must battle a horde of Chinese vampires in order to get the teeth dust needed to cure an ailing general. Meanwhile, the general's wife is pregnant, and the evil spirit of an aborted baby wants to possess the unborn child's body for its resurrection.
- 19
The Musical Vampire (1992)
4 Sep 1992 · 90 min
A crazy white scientist resurrects a corpse with a werid chemical creating a super hopping ghost. The only thing that can somewhat control it is the sound of music. A Taoist and his two assistants try and stop it from destroying the countryside.
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Mad Mad Ghost (1992)
13 Nov 1992 · 91 min
Uncle Ying is a fortune teller / Taoism Priest with a failing business and five apprentices. He takes a janitor/nightwatchmen job at a soon-to-be remodeled house, only to find its haunted!
- 21
Exorcist Master (1993)
8 Jan 1993 · 91 min
When a Catholic church in a small Chinese town falls prey to an evil combing the powers of Western and Chinese vampirism, Taoist priest Uncle Nine (Lam Ching Ying) and Catholic priest Wu (Wu Ma) must overcome religious and cultural differences in order to defeat the vampire.
Order and dates from TMDB collection data. Unreleased entries are added once they get a release date.