I mentioned this in the Recommended Blu-ray Releases thread but I enjoyed it so much I think it deserves its own thread. I understand that it was very somewhat pioneering and very successful comedy-horror and spawned lots of sequels and spin-offs and merchandise and so on, kind of like a Hong Kong Ghostbusters, but even more popular.
It's full of goofy 80s HK humour and it's definitely more of an action comedy than a kung fu flick, but it's just so enjoyably daft and rattles along at such a pace that I think pretty much anyone could enjoy this. I can't wait to get a few mates over, have a couple of tinnies and have a bloody good time watching this.
It's not scary per se, more campy like Hammer or something but there's enough tension in the plotting to generate plenty of fun fight sequences and set pieces and lots of dumb laughs. The Eureka Blu-ray release is excellent, well worth picking up, beautifully restored.
Anyone a fan of this or of the series as a whole? I understand there's a good chance of a boxset of the sequels at some point.
