Continuing with ICM's HK/China/ Taiwan challenge, I decided to dig into the bottom of the pile of Hong Kong titles waiting to be viewed. Intrigued by slim plot details I found of this Horror/Comedy mix,I got set to find out how bloody the ghost is.
The plot:
Penniless friends Yue and Ngoh try to kill themselves by jumping in front of cars. Falling to get hit by a car, Yue decides to climb up a building to jump off. In the building, underworld thug Boss Hung gets two urns, one containing the ghost of a pregnant woman pregnant who was raped and murdered and the other a ghost of her unborn fetus. Getting into a fight with his henchmen, Hung drops the urn containing the ghostly woman from the window and it lands in Yue's hands, who experiences a ghostly turn.
View on the film:
Opening the urns of black Comedy, the screenplay by Chun-Wai Lau & Jeffrey Lau uses the oily grotesque Horror of the ghostly pregnant woman to give the zany group Comedy antics a bad-taste atmosphere, as the group beat the ghost up with red underwear and they each use the ghostly urns as a genie to punch out and kill/bring back to life others who want to get their hands on the riches. Whilst it is not given a serious slant, the writers focus on black Comedy gives the horror urns a creepy vibe that entraps the group to actually work as a team, and leads to a wonderful sting which takes the chills over the cliff edge. Spending the majority of his credits doing stunt work for Hollywood and Hong Kong blockbusters, director Cheung-Yan Yuen is joined by cinematographer Yuen Kai Chan and displays his eye for choreographing action in comedy set-pieces of scatter-gun whip-pans following each person throw the urn around, as they awaken the bloody ghost.
The plot:
Penniless friends Yue and Ngoh try to kill themselves by jumping in front of cars. Falling to get hit by a car, Yue decides to climb up a building to jump off. In the building, underworld thug Boss Hung gets two urns, one containing the ghost of a pregnant woman pregnant who was raped and murdered and the other a ghost of her unborn fetus. Getting into a fight with his henchmen, Hung drops the urn containing the ghostly woman from the window and it lands in Yue's hands, who experiences a ghostly turn.
View on the film:
Opening the urns of black Comedy, the screenplay by Chun-Wai Lau & Jeffrey Lau uses the oily grotesque Horror of the ghostly pregnant woman to give the zany group Comedy antics a bad-taste atmosphere, as the group beat the ghost up with red underwear and they each use the ghostly urns as a genie to punch out and kill/bring back to life others who want to get their hands on the riches. Whilst it is not given a serious slant, the writers focus on black Comedy gives the horror urns a creepy vibe that entraps the group to actually work as a team, and leads to a wonderful sting which takes the chills over the cliff edge. Spending the majority of his credits doing stunt work for Hollywood and Hong Kong blockbusters, director Cheung-Yan Yuen is joined by cinematographer Yuen Kai Chan and displays his eye for choreographing action in comedy set-pieces of scatter-gun whip-pans following each person throw the urn around, as they awaken the bloody ghost.