O Vampiro de Chinatown

John Fasano,the man behind "Rock'n'Roll Nightmare" and "Black Roses" directed also this silly trash.This film is bad,but I found it to be genuinely enjoyable.The acting is horrible-James Hong's("The Vineyard") performance is actually the best!Of course jumping Chinese vampires are laughable-"The Jitters" is the kind of a movie that certainly will leave you amused.Pure fun,if you like trash cinema!

Apart from the unique concept, this is bargain basement trash with nothing redeeming about it. No gore, flat jokes, murky lighting, brutally bad fight choreography, cringe worthy dialogue, terrible sets... It's short, but feels like it's eight hours long. Just a miss in all respects.

Chinese vampires that hop around like bunnies who can only be killed by placing a piece of tape on their face chase around a bunch of people with really bad haircuts. Yes, it's as bad as it sounds. There's even some pretty awful kung-fu scenes, not to mention really bad dialogue ("What's that thing over there? Let's kill it!"). Acting is awful and the "terrifying effects" advertised on the box consists of some really really really bad makeup work. If you ever find it in the far far corner of your video store (which is highly unlikely), rent it if you like laughing at awful movies. And believe me, this one is awful...

1/10

The Jitters (1989) is a truly awful movie, there are no redeeming features whatsoever, some films are so bad they are good, or at least funny, but this film is just BAD!!!! I love horror movies, low budget is fine by me, but come on they have to be entertaining and ooze class, this film sucks in every respect, boring, with dull characters, awful acting, no suspense, no laughs, no nothing, it's as simple as that!!! A film about jumping/hopping Chinese vampires, you can freeze them by sticking paper to their foreheads, yes thats right, good huh!!!! I heard that the director of this actually made quite a fun horror movie called "Black Roses", well anything will be better than this rubbish but i don't think i want to see anymore of his work, it could be painful. 2/10 for the jitters and i'm being kind!!!!

Pretty bad movie, although it wasn't so bad that I hated it.

I've seen a few "Chinese vampire"/"hopping zombie" movies (both terms are used to translate the word kyonshi/gyonshi/jiangshi - spelling variations due to variant transliterations). Some are straight horror or horror/action. Many are horror/comedy. This one falls into the latter, although the comedy is pretty lame.

As an American (or Canadian)-made Chinese vampire movie, you'd expect it to introduce these creatures to an unfamiliar audience. It does, to some extent, but you wish it had been a better movie. Possibly the directors and producers thought this could be a big hit after Gremlins (1984) and Big Trouble in Little China (1986) (incidentally James Hong is in both the latter and The Jitters). I don't know how much distribution film prints might have gotten, but the video is fairly scarce now.

The opening titles are done over drawings of Chinatown, with the credits drawn in. An animated Chinese vampire hops through some of the streets in the drawings. That was neat.

A woman in Chinatown helps her uncle with his shop. She has a white fiancé. The Uncle has some trouble with a mostly white gang. He fights them off, but they return and kill him. They don't leave with much money, and are sent back by their leader to find the stash he supposedly had. Enter the zombie! The Uncle is now a Chinese vampire, hopping into the store wearing some traditional Chinese clothing, and he now has fangs, a strange growl, and pointy ears. A Buddhist monk shows up and pastes a prayer or some strip of paper with Chinese writing on it onto its forehead, which stops it.

The woman and her boyfriend learn about a place in Chinatown where Buddhists collect these Chinese vampires, apparently to help them eventually be able to pass away properly. The gang continues to make trouble.

One of the gang members who dies from a vampire bite comes back later as a vampire himself, and he turns into an even more dangerous monster when exposed to mirrors. I'm reminded of Gremlins again.

Better to stick with Chinese vampire movies that come from China and Hong Kong.