What other movie will give you this: Wang Bao-Ling (Chan Sze-Kai) is seduced by Shi Jong-Jie (Si Wai), a ghost optometrist who is also a vampire. He leaves her with a pair of possessed contact lens to replace her broken glasses, which soon take over her life and make her lead new victims to him.

Directed by Kuei Chih-Hung (Curse of Evil, The Boxer’s Omen) and written by Yun-Wen Chen and Kuang Ni, this will make you wary of strange men who give you free contacts that allow you to see ghosts. This boasts the full color palette of Japanese gothic horror like The Vampire Doll and they both flow from the bloody heart of Hammer horror.

As Shaw would do more horror — as well as Kuei Chih-Hung — things would get crazier, gorier and just plain goopier. Yet here’s a fully formed idea — it was only his second horror movie after The Killer Snakes — and this is moodier than his later work.

When boyfriend Au-ping (Lin Wei-tu) finds himself unable to help — and a slowly dying Wang Bao-Ling begins to seek victims from the beauty salon where she works — they turn to several supernatural professionals, but stopping a vampire isn’t simple. Even worse, every night, the vampire’s eyes glow and then so do our heroine’s as well, ending with him using her for his lurid ends, leaving her naked and trapped in a cobweb inside a haunted house every morning. Now that is a walk of shame.

This movie also taught me that vampires are allergic to cigarettes and that everything in Hong Kong is neon.

I learned about this film from the Unsung Horrors podcast, who described it as “the most(?) Italian of perhaps any Hong Kong horror film.” Listen to the episode!

You can watch this on YouTube.