Should you see it? It's my favorite Godfrey Ho film. Even so, it gets a cautious "yes."
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds."
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Robo Vampire (1988)
How bad is it? Well, for one thing, the robo vampire isn't in the main plot.
Should you see it? It's my favorite Godfrey Ho film. Even so, it gets a cautious "yes."
Godfrey Ho has made a career of taking bad films and then splicing in a few minutes of unrelated ninja action and re-releasing it with a title that sounds like a current blockbuster. This time, he added a robot instead. The main plot is about a kidnapped female agent rescued by a killed agent reborn as a vampire fighting robot (seemingly designed by 5 year-olds). These vampires, who are vampires only incidentally to the story, are the Chinese variety that hop and are killed by placing messages ion their heads - and that alone is funny to Americans - but they also shoot fire from their arms. There's a naked ghost. There's the worst body doubles in film (really. worse than in Plan 9). One guy gets killed, looks to the camera to see if the scene's over, and dies again.
Should you see it? It's my favorite Godfrey Ho film. Even so, it gets a cautious "yes."
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