Made two years before Ghostbusters, this early Lau Kar-Wing supernatural comedy (one of two he did for Shaw Brothers) has Bao Tuo (Hsiao Ho) and his cousin Zhou Peng (Cheung Chin-Pang) scamming people as fake ghostbusters. As you can imagine, they end up fighting real apparitions. A screwed up exorcism leads to the death of a client and her haunting them…and that’s just the beginning.

This may be wackier than some like, and the script is totally all over the place, but hiding ghosts inside umbrellas, possessed gamblers using that supernatural event to cheat and win money, and supernatural spectral battles should keep you on board. Sure, Golden Harvest did these sorts of movies better — Mr. Vampire, Encounter of the Spooky Kind — but this should at the very least keep you interested.

The Arrow Video release of this film, part of the Shaw Scope Volume 4 set, features a high-definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation, newly restored in 2K from the original negatives by Arrow Films. You can get this set from MVD.