{"id":14558,"date":"2021-10-26T20:55:46","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T00:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14558"},"modified":"2021-10-26T20:54:20","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T00:54:20","slug":"encounter-of-the-spooky-kind-1980-sammo-hung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14558","title":{"rendered":"Encounter of the Spooky Kind (1980, Sammo Hung)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My first-ever Sammo Hung movie.  This did have skeletons, a ghost pulling somebody into a mirror, a hopping vampire, an <em>Evil Dead<\/em> hand rebelling against its body, and a battle between magicians, but it&#8217;s really not a horror movie.  Rather a comedy action flick: a likeable loser called Big Guts is getting cucked by his wife and set up by his boss, but keeps managing to survive.  I can see the Sammo influence on Jackie Chan, using all the props in the room and looking panicked while doing cool moves.  Magician Lau (Tai Bo) disapproves of his master&#8217;s murderous work-for-hire, kwaidans and protects Sammo, then defeats evil magician Peter Chan Lung.  Internet says both magicians were in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14519\">Enter the Dragon<\/a><\/em>, all my early kung fu movie interests starting to come together.  I think one of the Jackie\/Sammo collabs like <em>Project A<\/em> or <em>Dragons Forever<\/em> should be next.  This movie has convinced me that Sammo is cool, but it loses points for bird killing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/spookyencounter1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>I thought it was the Plazadrome screening of part 3 that got me on a Nightmare on Elm Street kick this month, but no, it was probably this:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/spookyencounter2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/spookyencounter3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/spookyencounter4.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first-ever Sammo Hung movie. This did have skeletons, a ghost pulling somebody into a mirror, a hopping vampire, an Evil Dead hand rebelling against its body, and a battle between magicians, but it&#8217;s really not a horror movie. Rather a comedy action flick: a likeable loser called Big Guts is getting cucked by his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[357,477,110,32,216,2940,186],"class_list":["post-14558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1980s","tag-animal-slaughter","tag-ghosts","tag-hong-kong","tag-magic","tag-sammo-hung","tag-vampires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14591,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14558\/revisions\/14591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}