Welcome back to the final edition of our special Halloween bonus series, Trick or Treat.

I know I've enjoyed sharing these extra tales with you, so I hope that they've done

their job of keeping the spooky vibe going all throughout October.

So, let's end on a bang, shall we?

For today's theme, we are going back to the crypt, from Brom Stoker's brutal European count to Anne Rice's seductive immortals,

and the bizarre roommates in what we do in the shadows.

Popular culture just cannot get enough of vampires. But there are so many more

stories than the normal ones you typically meet. Here are four more powerful tales of blood-sucking

monsters that defy the typical cinematic approach in glorious, gruesome ways. I'm Aaron Manky,

and this is Lore.

In the final decades of the 20th century, the East Asian film industry was catapulted

into the international spotlight by Hong Kong's fast-paced martial arts films, a genre they

are still known for today.

But while movies like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon have since become cult classics, the

more discerning film student might remember

this era of cinema for a different reason. Hong Kong's growing collection of horror movies,

and in particular, Zhangxi films. Between 1980 and 1990, Hong Kong produced dozens of these

films. There's no denying that they were in high demand,

and when you know what they were, you won't be surprised, because Zhangxi films were,

quite simply, vampire movies. But these weren't the blood-sucking vampires of Hollywood.

These walking corpses were based on a Chinese folkloric monster that had been around for generations, called, unsurprisingly,

the Jiangxi.

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