My journey with 88 Films continues to be more and more obscure, and I’m fine with it. This time, it’s a supernatural comedy, The Haunted Cop Shop, most notable for being written by Wong Kar-wai. I’m no expert on Wong Kar-wai, but I do know that his more famous works don’t deal with vampire ghosts wearing bargain basement costumes attacking bumbling cops. But maybe they should.
In all honesty, this wasn’t really for me. I’m just too far removed from this era and region of comedy. I imagine it would be similar to showing my kids some of my favorite comedies from the ‘90s when they’re older. They’ll most likely appreciate why people found them funny, but won’t really find them all that funny themselves. (But I’ll try to convince them that Bulletproof is an underrated Adam Sandler movie, anyway.)
That’s not to say there isn’t plenty to enjoy here. The vampire stuff is silly and fun, and there were a couple moments that really threw me for a loop, like when the two heroes killed a dog and tried to trick people into eating it to break a curse. That might put some viewers off, especially since it’s treated for laughs (and the punishment for killing and cooking their boss’s dog is that they have to act like dogs for a little while). It definitely got my attention.
And that’s about it. I’ll forever remember The Haunted Cop Shop as the movie Wong Kar-wai wrote with the dog killing.
Transfer and Special Features
It’s 88 Films, so you know this is the best this film has ever looked, and you know you’re getting the best slipcase on the market.
There’s also an audio commentary, a visual essay, and some deleted / alternate scenes.
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