“Encounters of the Spooky Kind” is also known as “Spooky Encounters,” “Ghost Fight Ghost” or even “Ghost Bite Ghost.” It's probably the most famous example of the outlandish and endlessly entertaining genre of kung fu horror.

If you have never seen a Chinese vampire movie, there's a few things you should understand about Chinese vampires. One is that they hop. The actual Chinese term for a vampire translates literally as “hopping ghost,” because Chinese vampires attack by sticking their arms out straight in front of them and hopping toward you on stiff, dead legs. Then when they catch up with you, they use equally stiff kung fu on you. If you also have kung fu abilities, you can fight them off before they drain your Qi, but the only way you can actually stop them is with a big, yellow heavenly post-it note.

These post-it notes are Taoist talismans, and they really exist within the more occult-oriented sects of Taoism. Traditional Chinese folk religion conceives of the otherworld as being organized exactly like the old imperial Chinese bureaucracy. All of the spirits are just bureaucrats of one rank or another in the celestial hierarchy, and so is the Taoist sorcerer. If a Taoist sorcerer sees a vampire, he writes up a bureaucratic memo on a large yellow post-it note, ordering the vampire to cease and desist by the authority of his supervisors in the otherworldly home office. Then he uses his kung fu powers to defeat the vampire in single combat, and when he gets close enough he sticks the post-it note on the vampires' head in order to deliver the memo. The vampire instantly stops misbehaving- orders are orders, after all.

If you think all of this sounds hilariously bizarre and extremely fun, you think like I do. And that only scratches the surface of the surrealistic bizarro-land of kung fu horror!