Reviewed by: dleedlee Date: 01/08/2004 A disfigured ex-soldier masquerades among hopping vampires to avenge the death of his courtesan girlfriend caused by a predator warlord general. Part horror, part comedy, hopping vampires and a few songs thrown in, too. Voyage of the Dead starts out as horror, while the middle section is a combination of romantic melodrama and comedy and finally ends with an action section. The film opens, after a narration, with a Taoist priest (Ko Lo-Chuen) leading a line of hopping vampires into a inn and ‘parks’ them. After continuing their journey, one of the vampires breaks rank. Ping the rogue vampire is shrouded in a black robe (played by the director,Yeung Kung-Leung) rescues another soldier being victimized by General Yim (Chan Kam-Tong). The general fabricates evidence against the soldier to steal his courtesan girlfriend, Kwun (Cheng Bik-Ying) as he did to Ping earlier. In flashback, we see Fung, the courtesan, played by Tang Bik-Wan exchange herself for Ping’s freedom after Ping is incarcerated on trumped up charges. Ping is set free on a boat but becomes disfigured when the boat is set on fire. The grand finale is a showdown between the vampires and the warlord’s troops when Ping (looks strkingly like Michael Keaton’s Beetlejuice) and his pals infiltrate the general’s compound to avenge Yim’s injustices. Supporting actor Yee Chau-Siu ties all the sections of the film together as Ping’s friend in a variety of comic guises, first as an old woman and then as a taoist priest in the final battle. And, yes, Sai Gwa Pau makes another brief appearance here as… an innkeeper. There are three songs, two sung by Tang Pik-Wan and one by Cheng Pik-Ying. Reviewer Score: 7