4/3/2023 0 Comments Hocus focus mr.chuckles page![]() ![]() The pair also choreographed the fight action (and wrote the script, but who comes to these movies for that?), and while everyone’s favorite Toad has never looked better, the bizarre tagged on supernatural ending provides an indication as to where Yuet-Sang’s interests really lie. An accomplished action director himself, Yuet-Sang stepped into the directors’ chair for the first time along with Hsu Hsia to co-helm the Lo Meng solo outing Lion Vs Lion in 1981. Notably, he’d direct his co-star Lam Ching-Ying in the 1990 modern day take on the genre mash-up, Magic Cop.įor Hocus Pocus directing duties go to Chin Yuet-Sang. Apart from Hocus Pocus, he’d also headline the 1985 Shaw Brothers production Journey of the Doomed, before settling back into supporting roles and going onto have a successful run as a director. Between the years of 1982 – 1985 Tung-Wai took a break from action directing (eventually returning in 1986 for A Better Tomorrow and Pom Pom Strikes Back!), and seemed to focus more on his career in front of camera. That honour goes to legendary action director Stephen Tung-Wai. What’s interesting about Hocus Pocus though, is that even though Ching-Ying is playing the leader of the Opera troupe, he’s not actually the main character. While the characters profession may be different, traits such as his stoic demeanour and no-nonsense attitude are easily recognizable as those that would be carried over into Mr. In Hocus Pocus he’s not yet in Taoist priest mode, instead playing the superstitious leader of a Peking Opera troupe who’ve come to a remote town to perform. Vampire would come to cast over the latter half of it. It’s a title that’s rarely spoken of, but in retrospect is arguably the bridge between the Encounters of the Spooky Kind influenced first half of the 80’s, and the shadow that Mr. However a year before he put on the famous yellow threads, he featured in another horror comedy, in the form of 1984’s Sammo Hung produced Hocus Pocus. Both Encounters of the Spooky Kind and The Dead and the Deadly feature Lam Ching-Ying in supporting roles, and in 1985 Ching-Ying would take on the role that defined the rest of his career – the vampire busting Taoist priest, thanks to his iconic turn in Mr. Mixing the 3 genres resulted in some interesting titles, from the Billy Chong vehicles Kung Fu Zombie and Kung Fu from Beyond the Grave (released in 19 respectively), to Sammo himself revisiting the genre with Wu Ma’s The Dead and the Deadly in 1982. ![]() In 1984 it’d been 4 years since Sammo Hung directed and starred in Encounters of the Spooky Kind, the 1980 horror comedy kung fu flick hybrid that would prove hugely influential throughout the rest of the decade (culminating in a sequel in 1990). ![]() Cast: Lam Ching Ying, Stephen Tung Wei, Law Ho Kai, Chin Yuet Sang, Peter Chan Lung, Tai San, Alice Lau Ar Lai, Fung Lee, Cheung Ging Boh ![]()
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