The Blue Jean Monster

The Blue Jean Monster (Jeuk Ngau Jai Foo Dik Jung Kwai) (1991)

Runtime: The version I saw was 91 minutes long

Directed by: Kai-Ming Lai

Starring: Fui-On Shing, Siu Fong Wong, Gloria Yip, Amy Yip

From: Golden Harvest

Yes, this is a real movie and no it's not a porno. Rather, it's a Hong Kong film-from a major studio at that-I was told about on a messageboard in the past, but I explain all that and how strange this is below in my Letterboxd review, and I'll return tomorrow night.

About two years ago in a messageboard thread about movies someone (a big Asian movie watcher) mentioned some of the odd films he has seen before, including this one. For what should be obvious reasons, me and several others snickered at the title. Then, once we found out what this Category III (the strongest rating a Hong Kong release can receive) movie was all about, probably all of us were surprised and amused. I was able to find a copy so that is what I watched last night.

Basically, think of this as an even weirder version of Dead Heat! Yes, the motion picture with Treat Williams, Joe Piscopo and Vincent Price. One day I'll watch that for review here, but The Blue Jean Monster is about a cop named Tsu who has a pregnant wife soon to give birth; they don't always get along, due in part to their lack of sex life. I'll just say that they don't have an enlightened view of sexual intercourse during pregnancy. Tsu has a buddy-known as Power Steering-who is physically handicapped and he's an annoying goof; then again there are several grating characters in this motion picture.

Anyhow, he tries to break up a robbery but is killed when a lot of metal crap is dropped on him. Due to electricity and-ahem-CAT URINE, he is revived as a member of the living dead and he has to try to hide his undeadness and his gaping wounds that he attempts to stop with such things as a sanitary pad.

This movie is rather uneven, with there being a good amount of comedy, a lot of time being spent on the marriage of Tsu, those annoying characters and there's some wild shifts in tone. But, despite it being rather juvenile at times and also crude (there's a subplot involving Tsu and Power Steering and the mistaken belief that they have a homosexual relationship with each other; it should be no surprise that this isn't too enlightened either), I usually did laugh and it was mainly due to me finding the humor to be funny; it wasn't really me laughing AT the film. It's just so goofy and silly and yet there's some nice action and even a bit of horror so it's wacky and more often than not I was amused.

Considering that the film (at least in the subbed version I watched) also has characters with such names as Etc, Gucci and Death Rays-played by Amy Yip!-I didn't take this seriously, which helped in me enjoying this daffy piece of work.