Mr. Vampire (1985)
1985 film directed by Ricky Lau
- Released
- 1985
- Country
- Hong Kong
- Language
- Cantonese
- Genre
- Martial arts film
- Director
- Ricky Lau
- Screenplay
- Barry Wong
- Producer
- Sammo Hung
- Music
- Anders Nelsson
- Cinematography
- Peter Ngor
- Editing
- Peter Cheung
- Starring
- Lam Ching-ying, Ricky Hui, Chin Siu-ho, Moon Lee, Yuen Wah
- Running time
- 96 minutes
- Distributor
- Orange Sky Golden Harvest, Netflix
Mr. Vampire (Chinese: 殭屍先生) 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 1992, with Lam Ching-ying as the lead for the majority of them. The vampire of the film is based on the jiangshi, the hopping corpses of Chinese folklore (similar to both zombies and vampires). The film was released under the Chinese title 暫時停止呼吸 (literally: Hold Your Breath for a Moment) in Taiwan. The film was the breakthrough success of the jiangshi genre, a trend popular in Hong Kong during the 1980s, and established many of the genre's recognisable tropes.
More films directed by Ricky Lau
- Crazy Couple 1979
- Mr. Vampire II 1985
- Encounters of the Spooky Kind II 1990
- Mr. Vampire 1992 1992
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Facts from Wikidata Q1185829 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.
Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.