The Vampire Is Still Alive (1989) watch online HD

Screenwriter Joyce moves to a remote old house so she can work on a script. She winds up being terrorized by a rot-faced, razor-fingered, Freddy Kruegeresque freaky demon spirit dude. Meanwhile, spunky lady private investigator Jackie butts heads with a gang of nasty criminals. Director Edgar Jere sloppily blends together two separate stories into a disjointed and barely coherent, yet somehow oddly arresting and entertaining mess. Jere crams this flipped-out flick with a nice smattering of gore and several all-out wild martial arts fight scenes, plus delivers a rousing shoot-out on a yacht. James Langton's score alternates between shivery'n'shuddery ooga-booga scareshow stuff and cool-blastin' rock. Adding to the lunacy are a Taoist monk with a pair of hopping vampire slaves, an obnoxious fat vampire kid, and a welcome last reel appearance by some third-rate RoboCop clone. Dumb and ridiculous nonsense for sure, but still a whole lot of infectiously mindless fun all the same.

I've long held the belief that almost any film can be made bearable by featuring a few of the following: ninjas, dwarfs, gratuitous nudity, gore, monsters, cyborgs, explosions, big guns, kung fu. Godfrey Ho's Counter Destroyer (AKA Robo Vampire 3 Counter Destroy) is an exception to this rule, being an almost unwatchable mess despite the presence of several of the aforementioned elements.

The plot for the film is all over the place, presumably the result of Ho clumsily stitching together scenes from several unrelated movies, as is his wont. The story has something to do with a screenwriter called Joyce, who is working on a script for a film about the last emperor of China, but quite how ninjas, hopping vampires, a deadly female private eye, a silver lamé Robocop knock-off, and a ghostly child figure in proceedings is beyond me.

All that I am sure of is that, despite the complete and utter random lunacy throughout, the film is actually incredibly dull and a total waste of time-even worse than Robo Vampire 2: Devil's Dynamite (and that's saying something!).