Chin Siu-Ho

A horror-action hybrid from Hong Kong, Rigor Mortis is a tribute to the 1985 horror-comedy Mr. Vampire, and contains some of the same actors from that film.

Thinking about the brand of comedy championed in older martial arts pictures causes one to realize that more often then not, slapstick and extremely obvious tomfoolery is preferred over anything with a grain of subtlety. If such a style is not the viewer’s cup of tea, then they best stay away from most of the Shaw films that were either outright comedies or dabbled in lighthearted fair in the midst of their action epics.