Fake Robocop vs. Hopping Vampires in "Robo Vampire" - io9 Comments

Fake Robocop vs. Hopping Vampires in "Robo Vampire"

zenpoet — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:23:45 PST

@LynxWinters: I know its Chinese, I was wondering what the particular myth is, so as I might read up on it. And thank you for telling me it was Darkstalkers. I just could not seem to remember it.

zenpoet

Fake Robocop vs. Hopping Vampires in "Robo Vampire"

LynxWinters — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:46:56 PST

@zenpoet: It's Chinese mythology. The fighting game you're thinking of is the Darkstalkers series, with a chinese ghost/"hopping vampire" named Hsien-Ko (or Lei-Lei depending on what region you're living in).

LynxWinters

Fake Robocop vs. Hopping Vampires in "Robo Vampire"

y7alanzo — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:30:12 PST

I especially like the part at the beginning, when he's climbing out of the hole (about 0:47), and sand pours out of the gun barrel.

y7alanzo

Fake Robocop vs. Hopping Vampires in "Robo Vampire"

Seth L — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:41:57 PST

Was this the last episode of Flash Gordon, or an earlier one?

Seth L

Fake Robocop vs. Hopping Vampires in "Robo Vampire"

pkittie — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:33:21 PST

What's with the white people at the end of the clip? They mar the craptasticness that is Chinese Hopping Vampires.

pkittie

Fake Robocop vs. Hopping Vampires in "Robo Vampire"

Frozen-Tex — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:24:27 PST

Anyone notice? FRC used the Force to retrieve his gun!

Frozen-Tex

Fake Robocop vs. Hopping Vampires in "Robo Vampire"

zenpoet — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:37:17 PST

I love the thudding noise that ol' robodude's nike knockoffs make while he trudges through the sand.
@Ghede: what is the mythology? I have seen the hopping ghosts thing before, but did not know what it was based off of. I think I even remember a fighting game that had one of these ghosts in it.

zenpoet

Fake Robocop vs. Hopping Vampires in "Robo Vampire"

zenpoet — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:33:28 PST

What better to make a robot out of than the stuff that reflects the sun?

zenpoet

Fake Robocop vs. Hopping Vampires in "Robo Vampire"

jrghoull — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:19:40 PST

when they were all ontop of robo, am i the only one who really kinda thought they were having sex with him?

as cool as the actual robo cop is, i dont recall him having the ability to summon his gun. thats all sorts of bad-ass-ery

final question...when someone is 2 feet away from you, and is slowly hoping to the left, how the F*** do you miss?!! dick cheny would've nailed that shot!!

jrghoull

Fake Robocop vs. Hopping Vampires in "Robo Vampire"

Thud — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:10:21 PST

Ah, the disappointments of buying cheap Chinese knock-offs instead of real OCP hardware--you get seriously compromised targeting software. I think I could shoot better from the hip and I'm a Quaker.

Thud

Fake Robocop vs. Hopping Vampires in "Robo Vampire"

B1663R — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 05:58:28 PST

well, it promised what it delivered. plus had some sweet robot jedi tricks in it too!

B1663R

Fake Robocop vs. Hopping Vampires in "Robo Vampire"

Katana_Mind — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 05:50:20 PST

This was all kinds of flavours of awesome!

Anyone else develope a rash from listening to the fantastic sound fx of "bouncing plastic ball with flanger on top" that they used to set sounds to his steps. On sand!

Katana_Mind

Fake Robocop vs. Hopping Vampires in "Robo Vampire"

kiran.denniz — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 05:37:08 PST

Ouch. Watching the video was more horrifying than that girl from the Ring!

kiran.denniz

Fake Robocop vs. Hopping Vampires in "Robo Vampire"

ElijahDProphet — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 05:26:07 PST

Reminds me of InfraMan. I like that the robot vampire hunter's voice sounds like it is fed through Frampton's air tube.

"Do you feel like I do?"

ElijahDProphet

Fake Robocop vs. Hopping Vampires in "Robo Vampire"

cmg — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 04:53:08 PST

Their mascot is the terrifying image of (dun-dun-DUN!) Peter Cottontail!

cmg

Fake Robocop vs. Hopping Vampires in "Robo Vampire"

spacedcowboy — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 04:36:35 PST

My life's ambition is to defeat the hoppin vampires of the far east. It's an epidemic.

spacedcowboy

Fake Robocop vs. Hopping Vampires in "Robo Vampire"

Szin — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:21:56 PST

@Annalee: This fight scene certainly makes more sense that the last fight scene in Ultraviolet, I think. "It is on!" "Yes...it is!" SO GOOD.

BTW, love your avatar! Ghidorah = love!

Szin

Fake Robocop vs. Hopping Vampires in "Robo Vampire"

tetracycloide — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:58:56 PST

a more classic movie plot there isn't

tetracycloide

Fake Robocop vs. Hopping Vampires in "Robo Vampire"

Dereks — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:34:44 PST

Best hopping vampires ever are in Tzui Hark's "Vampire Hunters" (Era of Vampires). That was hilarious!

Dereks

Fake Robocop vs. Hopping Vampires in "Robo Vampire"

Annalee Newitz — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:18:30 PST

@bakana: Well, at least this fight scene makes sense. I mean, it's a robot fighting vampires.

Annalee Newitz

Fake Robocop vs. Hopping Vampires in "Robo Vampire"

bakana — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:50:47 PST

Incidentally, Robo-Vampire is a dubbed stitch-up of two completely unrelated movies, which helps a lot to contribute to the general not-making-sense-ness of the whole thing...

bakana

Fake Robocop vs. Hopping Vampires in "Robo Vampire"

stefan_jones — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:29:58 PST

Archie McPhee used to sell Hopping Ghost puppets. With boxing action! Alas, they are no longer available.

stefan_jones

Fake Robocop vs. Hopping Vampires in "Robo Vampire"

Annalee Newitz — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:21:32 PST

@capnfatpants: Now that's a podcast I should obviously be listening to.

Annalee Newitz

Fake Robocop vs. Hopping Vampires in "Robo Vampire"

capnfatpants — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:21:21 PST

The Podculture podcast (podculture.net) reviewed this movie awhile back - and in-fact their "Guilty Pleasures" reviews are based on the "Robo-Vampire" scale! And the often mention this movie.

capnfatpants

Fake Robocop vs. Hopping Vampires in "Robo Vampire"

Ghede — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:57:35 PST

Those hopping vampires are ancient mythology. You don't mess with ancient mythology. Otherwise the historical society comes and steals your lawn ornaments and hits your mailbox with a baseball bat. If you live in an apartment, they break in and steal your breath while you sleep.
Wait, that is cats. Or little gremlins that are killed by cats in bad movies.

Ghede

Fake Robocop vs. Hopping Vampires in "Robo Vampire"

shudderstep — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:54:29 PST

When will they stop Uwe Boll from directing movies?

shudderstep

Fake Robocop vs. Hopping Vampires in "Robo Vampire"

SamsonWest — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:36:34 PST

I just bought this movie a month ago, its really as amazing as you can imagine

SamsonWest

Fake Robocop vs. Hopping Vampires in "Robo Vampire"

Simon Piper — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:18:32 PST

wow.

"release my vampire sand dunes or we shall... HOP AT YOU!" *hop*hop*hop*

Simon Piper