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Dating a Vampire
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Clarence
Fok (Naked Killer, 1992) takes the directorial
role, but the great Wong Jing supplies the script. Why-oh-why must even the
Wikipedia page for WJ tell us that “his style, often seen as loud, crass, and
philistine” has a “low stock among critics”? Those fools!
Dating a Vampire entertains a
strange affinity with films by Tsai Ming-liang (The Hole, 1998) and David Lynch (Inland Empire,
2006) – given that it sets two students roaming through the spooky corridors of
a dilapidated, abandoned apartment building. Eventually, they tangle with a
trio of supernatural seductresses from Room 666.
The
endlessly repeated establishing shots and garish colour effects give an
underlying, Albert Pyun-type feel to the familiar combination of sex jokes and
innocence-must-be-redeemed plot twists.
Especially
enjoyable here is the introduction of a “TV psychic”, Mister M (Yuen Wah from Kung Fu Mahjong 2), whose charlatanry has to step itself up
another notch for him to avoid imminent vampirisation.
© Adrian Martin August 2015 |
, Clarence Fok, Hong Kong, 2006)
