Rigor Mortis

A former actor who once specialized in playing vampire hunters has fallen on hard times. Estranged from his wife and son and short of money, Chin Siu-ho moves into room 2442 of a decaying residential block, intending to end his life there. His plan is interrupted by neighbours, among them a Taoist priest named Yau who long ago hunted Chinese hopping vampires, or jiangshi. Yau has put his trade aside and takes little interest in the strange activity in the building. Elsewhere, after Uncle Tung dies, his grieving wife turns to black magic to bring him back. He returns as a bloodthirsty creature, and the malevolent presence stirs the ghosts already haunting the block. Yau and the death-seeking Siu-ho are drawn into a fight against the risen dead.

Rigor Mortis is a Hong Kong horror film directed by Juno Mak, who wrote the screenplay with Jill Leung Lai-Yin and Philip Yung Chi-Kwong and produced it with Takashi Shimizu. It was Mak's first turn as director and precedes Sons of the Neon Night. Chin Siu-ho plays a version of himself; Anthony Chan Yau, Kara Wai Ying-Hung, Hee Ching Paw, Lo Hoi-pang and Richard Ng round out the cast, with 46 crew credited. Made for around 15 million US dollars, it earned roughly 3 million worldwide. On IMDb it holds 6.3/10 from about 7,000 votes and on TMDB 6.1/10 from 212, while a critics' rating stands at 5.8/10 from 23 reviews, so audiences rated it a little more favourably than critics did.