As Andrew Heskens of easternkicks.com wrote, "Sammo Hung [...] took the idea of hopping vampires/deceased from The Shadow Boxing (aka The Spiritual Boxer II) and turned it into a phenomenon with Encounter of the Spooky Kind, and things were never the same.

"[1] Encounters of the Spooky Kind was also one of Hong Kong's first action horror comedies.

[3] The film starts with Bold Cheung having a nightmare about two ghosts, an elder and the young adult, first in a wine jar and then as a human.

Bold Cheung is challenged to spend the night in an abandoned house where he must peel an apple in front of a mirror.

The ghost reaches for Cheung, but he cuts its hand off and then quickly shatters the mirror, causing the house to collapse.

Master Tam is worried Cheung will find out about the affair, so he hires a Mao Shan witch, Chin Hoi, to get rid of him.

Cheung is tricked into spending the night in a temple, but he encounters Tsui who tells him that he must sleep on the roof.

Again he meets Tsui who tells him to collect fifty chicken eggs to throw into the coffin.

Cheung is thrown in prison, but escapes by pretending to be sick; he beats up the guards and runs into a forest where he trips over a coffin exposing the corpse within.

As Cheung sleeps, it comes to life and mimics his actions before an evil force causes it to attack and chase him.

Cheung is possessed by the monkey god and Chin’s disciple by the Dragon Taming Arhat.

Encounters of the Spooky Kind grossed $5,675,626.00 HKD at the Hong Kong box office.