Vampire Warriors – Report

This Hong Kong movie was released some time in November or late October, I believe. It's mainly a wire-fu Martial Arts "horror" comedy in the tradition of classic Hong Kong horror movies. Actually, it's more of an action than a horror movie.

There are quite a few cute female vampires in the movie, but they really didn't do much aside from some Martial Arts wire-fu fights in which they got their asses kicked by the main villain for the most part. One girl displays a little bit of invulnerability by bashing her head against a lamppost out of boredom a few times leaving a dent in it. I might have missed or forgotten other minor feats.

The heroine has some more fights and does kick a bit of ass in some of them, but it's mostly Martial Arts (she's a real Martial Arts star of some sort, I believe).

The best part is a double throatlift done by a cute evil vampire girl that, unfortunately, is all too short. Also, she gets killed by the villain only a few minutes later. Below, you'll find the scene with rather bad picture quality (it's from a camrip after all). I'll might post some more scenes and with better picture quality once the movie is released on DVD.


Vampire Warriors Throatlift

Upcoming – Mr. & Mrs. Incredible – Trailer

Here is a trailer for the upcoming Hong Kong superhero spoof Mr. & Mrs. Incredible aka Gazer Warrior and Aroma Woman. It looks quite funny IMO. There's not much that to see in terms of superstrength from Mrs. Incredible, though, but I think the trailer gives you an idea of the movie's tone.

It will be released in China February, 3rd.

Ubergirl craziness made in Hong Kong – Part 3

Here comes part 3 of probably around 10 or so.

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Funny Ghost (1989) - Yet another really silly ghost movie, this time about some kind of magic vase. In the later part of the movie a female vampire is set free in a warehouse. She attacks a bunch of people and throws them around: She lifts one guy over her head, rips off another guy's arm and lifts one more over her head and throws him around. Later on the guys fight her off by exposing their underwear to her ... or something like that.

Funny Ghost - Lifts, Fight

@youtube

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Mr. Vampire III (1987) - The Mr. Vampire series is probably one of the most popular of that era, famous for its dreaded and terrifying hopping vampires. In this part, however, there are no hopping vampires, I believe. Instead we have a female ghost or demon as a villain.


There are about three scenes in the movie that involve some sort ubergirl feats. At the beginning the Taoist monk is attacked by some ghosts, among them a tall female ghost who lifts him by the throat with both hands and tosses him through the air. The rest of the scenes are mostly goofy fighting scenes with the main villainess who breaks open a padlock with one hand, rips apart an iron chain, bends a part of a prison cell and during the final fight scene lifts a boy with one hand and throws a bunch of people around. She also makes a lot of animalistic noises during her attacks and wears a weird eye prop.

Scene 1 - Lift, Throw	Scene 2 - Fight, Steel bend
Scene 3 - Final fight

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My Neighbours Are Phantoms (1990) - Another ghost comedy with lots of cheap jokes. In one scene a female ghost attacks two guys and two women and throws them around a bit. They get help from a good female ghost who gets thrown around a bit as well. The evil ghost then ends up lifting on of the guys over her head with one hand, pinning him to the ceiling. Eventually the good ghost throws some sort of charm at her and kills (or bans) her.

My Neighbours Are Phantoms - Fight, Lift

Ubergirl craziness made in Hong Kong – Part 1

For some reason I like the cheesy displays of superhuman ubergirl powers in Hong Kong (horror) movies made in the 1980's and 1990's, which is why I'm devoting a series of posts to them. Most of the scenes I'll describe I have already posted at my board or youtube, but I'll link to the clips anyway and add a few screencaps for good measure. Anyway, here we go:

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A Chinese Odyssey I - Pandora's Box (1995) - There are a couple of Chinese legends which are made to TV series or movies over and over again in Hong Kong or China, e.g. the Liao Zhai stories. Chinese Odyssey is based on Journey to the West.


In one scene two pretty demon ladies are attacked by a bunch of thugs. In typical Wuxia wire-fu fashion they send the bodies of their attackers flying all around with their kicks. One guy jumps at one of the demons but she just twirls his body around on her finger over her head and then punches him through the roof. They seem to be somewhat invincible, too. Too bad, that this was pretty much the only worthwhile ubergirl scene in both movies (as far as I remember).

A Chinese Odyssey - Fight

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Operation Pink Squad II - Thunder Cops (1989) - While A Chinese Odyssey is more of a fantasy/wuxia movie this one is a typical example of the cheesy Hong Kong horror movie of the 1980's. Btw. you can find out more about any of the movies I mention at the Hong Kong Movie Database.


A female ghost or demon chases a couple of people and attacks them. She lifts a woman by the throat and shortly after lifts a guy by the collar. Again, this was the only ubergirl scene in the movie.

Operation Pink Squad II - Throatlift Same scene @youtube

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The Demon's Baby (1998) - This one has a flying demon baby in it that slices a man in half. Seriously. In the second half of the film a bunch of demon baby possessed women wreak havoc among the townspeople: Their bellys open and reveal big fanged mouths that start devouring their victims or shoot tentacles at them and stuff. It's probably the best movie ever made.


There are two ubergirl scenes both done by a possessed girl (Annie Wu): In the first, right after the flying baby scene, she grabs a guy by the throat and lifts him up. In the second scene we see her holding another guy over her head with one hand and then throw him to the ground.

Demon's Baby - Throatlift	Demon's Baby - Throatlift
Demon's Baby - Overhead	Demon's Baby - Overhead

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That's it for now. There is a lot more to come in the near future ...

Wir sind die Nacht - Report

Here's a quick rundown of the strength feats of the German Vampire movie "Wir sind die Nacht". Aside from its ubergirl content I think the movie is okay, better than I expected, considering it's a German genre movie, entertaining but still nothing mindblowing. If you live in Germany you might want to check it out in the cinema. Overall I'd rate it 6 out of 10.

Now to the ubergirl stuff:

Spoilers ahead

• In the opening scene the lead vampiress (Louise) snaps a stewardess's neck; another of the vampires unlocks the exit door of an airplane and then punches it into the night air.
• Louise sneaks up behind a thug, grabs his neck and breaks it with a short squeeze of her hand (it's indicated only by the sound), then she tosses his body aside.
• When a police squad wants to arrest Lena (also a vampire) she fights back and quickly overpowers the three guys that rush at her by punching or throwing them through the air. The scene is pretty rushed, i.e. you don't see that much. Still not bad.
• In a train Louise appears behind a (human) cop and grabs his throat; she seems to be lifting him but it's not really clear. Lena then pushes the cop aside frees him from Louise's grasp.
• During the final scene Lena attacks Louise: They run up the walls, Lena rips some metal bars off the wall and attacks Louise with them; she is thrown through the air several times by the older vampiress, who also catches her fist and breaks her arm etc. Again the scene is filmed in that fast moving music video style which is too bad because you don't get a clear look at what's going on. Also, it should have been a bit longer in my opinion.

The vampiresses also have healing powers which are shown repeatedly throughout the movie - for example when Lena forces the cop to shoot her and then shows him how her wound heals. And they can run up walls, even walk upside down on the ceiling; it's never explained how or why.

At the moment I can't provide screencaps or even video clips. I might add them as soon as a release finds it's way into the net.

Chinese girls lifting people over their heads

Here are some scenes of Chinese / Hong Kong TV shows in which a girl lifts a guy over her head with no apparent reason for why she is so strong. All scenes are somewhat comedic, with the shows being lighthearted wuxia serials or comedies, and the girls are ordinary girls, i.e. not vampires, robots, possessed, superheroines or anything like that.

The first scene is from a comedy / wuxia series called The Duke of Mount Deer or Royal Tramp from 2008. In the scene a young girl and her master demonstrate some fighting skills to the main character and at the beginning the girl lifts up the old guy with one hand and holds him abover her head.
The second scene is from a recent comedy show called Can't Buy Me Love. A girl and a guy follow a thief through the streets. The guy eventually is able to stop the thief and causes him to fall to the ground. Then the girl arrives and angrily grabs the thief, lifts him over her head and starts to shake him until some piece of jewellery falls out of his pocket.
Number three is from Paladins in Troubled Times. A young girl wants something from a man (I don't remember what) and proposes a challenge: One of them is going to lift something in the room and if the other one can't lift it, he/she looses. She starts and lifts him over her head which he in return obviously can't, so she wins.

I have no idea if there are more scenes like that in the shows mentioned as these feats are somewhat random and each of the series is about 40-50 episodes in length. In one plot summary of the series I read, the girl from Can't Buy Me Love is described as being amazingly strong, but the only ubergirl moment I found (so far) is the one pictured above.

I posted the three scenes to mediafire:

Can't Buy Me Love (ep 10) - overhead lift
Paladins in Troubled Times (ep 3) - overhead lift
Royal Tramp 2008 (ep 18) - overhead lift

Lost Boys: The Thirst - Short update

Not much to report on this one. There's one brief scene in which a female vampire jumps about 20 feet onto a stage and then throws a guy about the same distance. She is killed a few moments later. There were also some minor feats like jumping out of an airplane or running along a wall but that was about it.

The throw is here:

Lost Boys 3 - Throw

Smallville Isis - Report

In yesterday's episode of Smallville Lois is possessed by the Egyptian Goddess Isis. Isis wants to reawaken her beloved Osiris and finds Clark to be a suitable host for her husband (and brother).

What I never really understood about Smallville is how they structure their episodes. So the episode is called "Isis", right? Lois' possession happens about 10 minutes into the episode and ends 30 minutes in. That means only half of the episode is even devoted to it's main plot ... Anyway.

There are a few brief, noteworthy moments: When she enters a warehouse, Lois opens and bends a metal gate as if it was made out of cardboard, she pushes the guard that rushes towards her and sends him flying 20 feet through the air, and she rips off the lid of a wooden box. Later she pushes / throws Clark onto a sarcophagus and uses her telekinesis (?) powers once or twice against Green Arrow.

All in all I didn't find it too exciting, but still better regarding ubergirl-moments than the recent Supergirl episode. I've created clips of the scenes I found interesting, including the part when Lois becomes possessed:

Transformation
Enter warehouse (steel bend, push guard)
Push Clark

The Vampire Diaries - Season 2 (so far)

We're five episodes into season 2 and so far there are two recurring female vampire characters. One of them, Katherine, is supposedly the main villainess of this season and the "twin" of the show's female lead. The other one, Caroline (see pics), was turned into a vampire at the end of the first episode by Katherine.

Caroline had a few uber-moments: In episode 2 she pushed a guy, sending him flying a couple of feet, she overpowered two of her victims, moved at superspeed; in the last episode there is a short fight between her and a guy, which she wins quite easily. She kicks him through the air against a tree.

The other vampiress didn't do that much so far. I believe in one episode she broke free of some chains and pushed another vampire away.

I read some spoilers that there will be a big fight betweeen these two vamps at some point during this season. I'll keep you posted ... In the meantime, here are two of the scenes I mentioned:

The Vampire Diaries 2x02 Throw
The Vampire Diaries 2x05 Fight