Line #10 Film/RoboVampire


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3	''Robo Vampire'' is a low-budget action movie. Actually, it is the remains of two different low budget movies cobbled together and passed off as a film in the style of [[Film/GodfreyHoNinjaMovies Godfrey Ho]], though whether Ho himself was involved in this film is debatable.
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5	A Taoist priest and his army of [[ChineseVampire jiangshi]] are hired by a drug lord to protect his smuggling operation from a group of commandos. Soon the priest awakens a powerful Vampire Beast to aid him in his new business venture. However a ghost appears and berates the priest for his actions. Apparently she and the Vampire Beast had loved each other when they were still alive but were forbidden from marrying each other. To solve this they commited suicide so they could be together in death. As a compromise the priest marries the two on the condition they would still serve him. Unable to deal with this new threat the commandos rebuild one of their fallen comrades into a cyborg known as [=RoboWarrior=]. Meanwhile, a female drug agent is kidnapped and must be rescued from deep within the jungle by a team of commandos.
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7	This film is known among connoisseurs of bad films for its poor editing, terrible special effects, broken dubbing and total lack of coherency. You can also check out WebVideo/ObscurusLupa's review [[http://phelous.com/node/1054 here.]] Or you could just watch the entire film [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3dHaWPska0 right here.]]
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10	!!This film provides examples of:
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12	* ChineseVampire: Filled with them.
13	* CoversAlwaysLie: The cover shows Franchise/RoboCop, and while [=RoboWarrior=] is clearly a ripoff of him, he looks very different, as well.
14	* DamselInDistress: A drug agent is kidnapped, raped, tortured and held prisoner in the middle of the jungle.
15	* EvenEvilHasStandards: The drug lord is so moved by the ghost's tragic love story that he insists the priest perform a marriage ceremony on the spot.
16	* HollywoodCyborg: [=RoboWarrior=], the "android-like robot".
17	* MonsterMash: A cyborg battles against Chinese vampires, a drug cartel, a Kung Fu priest, a half-naked ghost and whatever a "Vampire Beast" is.
18	* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Cyborgs, Chinese Vampires, Kung Fu priests, drugs lords, and ghosts all show up, but there is also a "Super Vampire," which is just a guy in a gorilla mask.
19	* NoEnding: [=RoboWarrior=] defeats the ape-pire, and then the movie just kind of stops.
20	* ObviousStuntDouble: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20160512235222if_/http://www.encyclopedia-obscura.com/moviesrobovampire.html One review of the film]] points out that the white, blonde heroine is replaced in one scene by a stunt double who is... a dark-skinned, gray-haired short man with a moustache. The reviewer has a field day imagining what hiring this stunt actor must have looked like.
21	* OffTheShelfFX: Put it this way … the Vampire Beast is a guy wearing a ''gorilla mask''.
22	** Unless the director's intention is that he was a gorilla before he was turned into a vampire. Which gives his romance with the ghost some [[BestialityIsDepraved unfortunate implications]].
23	* TogetherInDeath: That was the plan anyway...
24	--->'''Ghost:''' How dare you take my lover's corpse and turn it into a vampire beast! Now he is condemned to a living death and we can never be together in the afterlife!
25	--->'''Taoist Priest:''' But he is from the east and you the west. How can you explain this?
26	--->'''Ghost:''' Orientals are a stubborn race. Both his parents opposed our marriage. It was then that we decided if we could not be together in this life, Peter and I would be together forever in the afterlife! You have robbed us of this by turning him into a vampire beast!
27	** Works out in the end though as they get married anyway despite being a ghost and some kind of super vampire creature.
28	* UnholyMatrimony: The Vampire Beast and ghost become wed partway through the film.
29	* WeCanRebuildHim: [=RoboWarrior=]. Twice. A drug agent is rebuilt as a cyborg after being killed by a vampire, then rebuilt ''again'' after being blown up by a rocket launcher.
30	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Christine (the ghost) kills the priest at the end, [=RoboWarrior=] kills the "vampire beast", and... the movie ends without him doing anything about Christine.

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