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Robo Vampire

  • 1988
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 30m
IMDb RATING
3.4/10
1.6K
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Robo Vampire (1988)
SuperheroActionHorrorSci-Fi

Narcotics agent Tom Wilde is given a second chance at life after being shot and killed. In a futuristic experiment, agent Wilde is returned to life as an Android Robot and he is sent on a ve... Read allNarcotics agent Tom Wilde is given a second chance at life after being shot and killed. In a futuristic experiment, agent Wilde is returned to life as an Android Robot and he is sent on a very dangerous mission.Narcotics agent Tom Wilde is given a second chance at life after being shot and killed. In a futuristic experiment, agent Wilde is returned to life as an Android Robot and he is sent on a very dangerous mission.

  • Director
    • Godfrey Ho
  • Writer
    • Godfrey Ho
  • Stars
    • Robin Mackay
    • Nian Watts
    • Harry Myles
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  • IMDb RATING
    3.4/10
    1.6K
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    • Director
      • Godfrey Ho
    • Writer
      • Godfrey Ho
    • Stars
      • Robin Mackay
      • Nian Watts
      • Harry Myles
    • 38User reviews
    • 46Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Robin Mackay
    Nian Watts
    Harry Myles
    Joe Browne
    Nick Norman
    George Tripos
    David Borg
    Diana Byrne
    Alan Drury
    Lak Apichat
    • Jack
    • (archive footage)
    • (uncredited)
    Manop Aswathep
    • Bill
    • (archive footage)
    • (uncredited)
    Sorapong Chatree
    • Ray Roberts
    • (archive footage)
    • (uncredited)
    Tao Chiang
    Tao Chiang
    • Ken
    • (uncredited)
    Nicholas Clark
    • Narcotics Agent
    • (uncredited)
    Chin-Hung Fan
    • Vampire
    • (uncredited)
    Conan Gargett
    • Narcotics Agent Glenn
    • (uncredited)
    Scott Hoyer
    • Narcotics Agent Tom Wilde
    • (uncredited)
    Pornphan Kasemsaman
    • Girl at Young's HQ
    • (archive footage)
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Godfrey Ho
    • Writer
      • Godfrey Ho
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    User reviews38

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    Jjjkurosu

    Brilliantly terrible

    If robo vampire doesn't make you laugh till you cry then you have no sense of humor. Everything about it is so bad, it begs for you to watch again to catch even more plot holes, or at least a couple more laughs.

    The movie claims to be about some drug agent who gets killed and is then reborn as a vampire-fighting robo warrior. But really the movie revolves around a plot about a kidnapped(and somehow beautiful) female agent named Sophie, with a robotic story planted on.

    Everything is purely cheese in this movie. Robo-Warriors' costume looks like something you'd see in an elementary school play. He fights vampires that do everything but suck blood( they hop, they appear out of the ground, they shoot fireballs out of their arms). A third subplot about a half-naked ghost chick is completely confusing and terrible. The best part is when the blonde haired female drug agent Sophie jumps out of a window from enemies, and her stunt double is clearly a gray haired man in a dress(!).

    On top of all of this you have to remember that the only reason that there are vampires in this movie is because the drug dealers hired them!

    I don't care what anyone says, movies this bad should be cherished, and MUST be seen to be believed.
    1irishdjc33

    Should be nicknamed the Ring

    This movie is so terrible that it is wrong for one to own it. it must be viewed then instantly given away.(Trust me you wont have the urge to watch it again!) I say it should be called the Ring because 7 days after making it all of the actors careers DIED! Check the filmographies...its true. The only one who had a career after this movie was uncredited in the film! (good decision)My vote for worst film ever and for that reason all should at least see it once! Remember pass it along don't keep it to yourself. I was given a copy just over a year ago and that copy is now circulating through North Carolina at last check. Enjoy!
    7BA_Harrison

    Directed by Joe Livingstone AKA Godfrey Ho.

    A drug-lord recruits Chinese vampires to protect his business from government narcotics agents. When one of their people is captured, the authorities not only send in a rescue team but also create an indestructible cyborg to take on the enemy.

    I knew it, I knew it! Although my copy of Robo Vampire names (blames?) someone called Joe Livingstone as director, everything I saw screamed Godfrey Ho. The insane, disjointed story (the result of two or more films badly spliced together); the crappy kung fu; the awful dubbing; the ridiculous special effects: Ho's inimitable touch was all over this nonsense.

    Featuring quite possibly the worst RoboCop rip-off ever (the cyborg's suit is made from padded silver lamé), a hopping vampire in a rubber gorilla mask with fireworks up its sleeves (?!?!), a yucky scene in which a woman packs heroin inside the stomach of a dead animal, a female ghost who bares her breasts in order to distract her foes, and numerous badly stuffed dummies being thrown about in poorly choreographed fight scenes, this has to be one the most bonkers and least comprehensible efforts in Ho's canon. Consequently, it also proves to be one of his more entertaining efforts.

    6.5 out of 10, rounded up 7 for IMDb.
    1Hanichi

    Two movies for the price of one!

    It wasn't until the end of this film that I realized it was essentially two movies, both of which on their own could have qualified as pure tripe. One is the the robot vs. vampire story that the title suggests. The other is a more straightforward good guys vs. drug gang movie. Although I have only seen the movie once, I believe you will find that the characters from the one plot line NEVER appear in the exact same shot with the characters from the other plot line. It really is two movies, edited together.

    This movie is an absolute riot. I highly recommend it. The first time I saw the robot, I laughed so hard a friend had to pause the film to let me recover. The hopping vampires...oh my, they are perhaps the silliest things to appear in film since the 1950's. The whole thing makes Dr. Who look like it was done by ILM.

    For those connoisseurs of bad movies, please get this film. You will not regret it.
    3Aaron1375

    There is a robo in this film, but no real vampires, sadly.

    What do you get when you put two completely unrelated films together? You get the incomprehensible mess known as Robo Vampire, that's what! Seriously, this film is two films, one what basically incorporated an earlier film to pad out the film they were making. Robo Vampire is what they were making and I am not sure what the other film was, but it was obviously a film that did not feature any robot army men or vampires. Then again, the Robo Vampire portion of the film does not really feature any vampires either as it features what appear to be zombies and a ghost woman!

    The story, oh boy, this is going to be a tough one. Seems there is a drug war going on and there are inexplicably zombies/vampires around so the drug dealers get the incredible idea to use these creatures to stop the drug agents from stopping them! Well, the drug agents create a cyborg to combat the vampires! Meanwhile, an agent is kidnapped after some priest who was hoarding cocaine was killed and another agent is sent to rescue her having a completely separate adventure than the vampires or the robot resides in!

    The film is all over the place as it is a mashup of two films so one minute you are watching a robot battling hopping zombies and the next you are watching two people jumping out of a cable car. Not sure why they decided to fuse these two films together, but you do get a rather interesting mess to view.

    So, this film is not good, but at least it's not boring. I mean, you start getting tired of a scene and then you are violently hurled into another completely random scene! The robot in the title looks like crap, basically a dude wearing tinfoil and oven mitts or something and he carries around a big gun that he can make come to him and that is about the extent of his powers. Not sure why they felt the need to deploy vampires against him as the rocket launcher took him out! Just a total mess of a film that relies on the viewer being able to meld two films that have nothing to do with each other together. Not an easy feat...

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    Related interests

    Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Mark Ruffalo, and Chris Hemsworth
    Superhero
    Bruce Willis in Die Hard (1988)
    Action
    Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby (1968)
    Horror
    James Earl Jones and David Prowse in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
    Sci-Fi

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    • Trivia
      The "gang war" and "secret agent" footage was lifted from the Thai film Paa Lohgan (1984).
    • Goofs
      Poor color-matching and obviously differing filming locations between Chinese and Thai footage that has been edited together.
    • Quotes

      Soldier #1: Now that Tom is dead, I want to use his body to create an android-like robot. I'd appreciate you approving my application.

      Soldier #2: You're assured of success?

      Soldier #1: Yes.

      Soldier #2: Okay, it's approved.

    • Connections
      Edited from Paa Lohgan (1984)

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    • Release date
      • 1988 (Hong Kong)
    • Country of origin
      • Hong Kong
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Robo Vamp
    • Production company
      • Filmark International Ltd.
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    • Budget
      • $2,500,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 30m(90 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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