Hong Kong, which was opened less than two hundred years ago, has now become a projectile land of an international metropolis, full of too much history. Every day, every place, from time to space, almost all have different stories. The Hong Kong ghost film just records this little bit of historical process, and almost every ghost movie can find the prototype in reality. In this era when American horror movies have become popular, conquering the world's film rankings, and Thai horror movies have sprung up, beating up South Korean sticks, overshadowing the limelight in Japan, and trying to blow the Asian horn. Hong Kong horror movies have always been going their own way, thin water and long streams, like a person who has nothing to do to see the mood of the work. Because the horror movies here have long been picky eaters, and only the horror movies in this place in the world are called ghost movies... So even though many people in the industry are shouting that Hong Kong movies are dead, Hong Kong ghost movies also say that there is no pressure, and it is making dead movies.
In Hong Kong, the world of the living and the world of the dead are always parallel, and The ghost films in Hong Kong are naturally more like a small manuscript that records the changes of the times. After experiencing Shaw's costume ghost movies in the 60s and 70s of the last century, the fierce ghost movies of the 80s when zombies dominated the world, and then the strange talk movies that refracted the market in the 90s, the Hong Kong ghost film market after the millennium seems to have slowed down, although the number of related movies has been greatly reduced, it is easier to know what the audience wants to see, although it is impossible to figure out the routine style of an era, it seems to be invincible, and almost every time a good work is launched, it will attract huge attention. Next, let's visit the most haunted places in the movie.
Haunted location 1 Wilderness
In the wilderness, lonely ghosts, no supernatural life, lonely reincarnation, this is the saddest and most terrifying thing Chinese imagine. When this type of ghost is often killed by great grievances and becomes a lone ghost, naturally there is no one to offer wine to support, and can only live in a fixed place, and has been wandering in the yin and yang realm, and the resentment generated will be endless.
"Mountain Village Old Corpse": Released in 1999, "Mountain Village Old Corpse" was falsely accused by some film critics of plagiarizing "Midnight Murder Bell", but whenever the Hong Kong ghost film is mentioned as the most frightening, the audience who loves it will naturally push it to the throne three or four times. Some common costumes in Hong Kong ghost films are used by the director just right in this film: green light, long hair, black eye bags, white pink face, nail fungus, a contagious two... In addition, "Old Corpses in Mountain Villages" extracts many local horror scenes in Hong Kong films, and through the means of piling, the atmosphere of the mad people increases to a geometric degree: messy small shop tables and chairs, collapsed old houses in the countryside, shroud mats covered with wild grass... These seemingly vulgar things can always bring people a strong sense of fear. Not to mention the tragic Cantonese opera "LoutaiHui" when Aunt Mei appeared, the strange, mournful, and confused singing voice made people's scalps tingle.
"Mr. Zombie": In Hong Kong movies, zombies are known for physical attacks, and soulless things are also classified under the ghost word specialty, but people prefer to call them fierce ghosts. Ghosts and ghosts are two very different races, but in Master Lin Zhengying's zombie films, you can often see these two taking turns, perhaps it is at this time that Hong Kong horror movies have been unified into ghost films. "Mr. Zombie", released in 1985, has achieved two superstars, one is Lin Zhengying, and the other is a zombie. In that special era of warlord melee, there were always some remote mountain villages where the sparrows were small and complete, there were always some villagers with no culture, and a group of rabble-rousers of local security groups, so once there was a Daoist leader who understood yin and yang gossip, ghost and god techniques, and herbal physiotherapy, he would become the core figure of the local area and stabilize the people's hearts and minds between the poor mountains and rivers on that side. "Mr. Zombie" not only finds a balance between comedy, horror, action and many other elements, but also popularizes Maoshan techniques and feng shui, making this kind of folklore knowledge tips quite popular with the public. And the episode "Her Vision" in "Mr. Zombie", where the ghost bride marries her relatives, has also become a representative musical work of Hong Kong ghost films.
Haunted location 2 estates
Estates include low-cost housing funded by the Hong Kong government and old houses for relatively poor people, while the estates that appear in Hong Kong ghost films are mostly remote, mixed with residents and dilapidated appearances in order to meet the characteristics of haunted, gloomy and complex environment.
"Zombie": In 2013, Mai Junlong, who directed the film for the first time, launched a nostalgic blockbuster "Zombie", a new generation of directors after the 80s who changed many of the stereotypical routines of Hong Kong ghost films, transplanted zombies in the countryside into the estate, and borrowed the twin ghosts of Japanese elements, so that the oriental jumping ghosts and reptile ghosts came to a wonderful collision and combination. The appearance of an old actor who started a zombie movie professional in the 1980s is even more emotional. The film uses dark and cool tones to tell the story of the action star Qian Xiaohao after moving into the estate and colliding with evil spirits. Soon after the beginning of the film, there are photos of the late Lin Zhengying and Xu Guanying, which is doomed to make this movie completely different from the previous zombie movies that are gag, laugh and swear, funny and terrifying, and some are just the same miserable and depressed Chen You, Zhong Fa, Lou Nanguang, and even the old and sad Wu Yaohan. Thirty years of washing and baptism have finally ushered in a tragic end for a group of self-satisfied little people.
"Believe It or Not in July": In the same year, Qian Shengwei, who laid a downfall in the Hong Kong ghost film industry with the "Digital Series", continued to play the tricks of the Oban Ghost Festival with "Believe It or Not" with "July And FourteenTh Believe It or Not". In addition to the graveyard rampage at the end of the film, most of the ghost scenes take place in the estate, through the exaggerated body language of Wu Zhenyu, Li Xuanchen and others, once again mixing the detective with the supernatural elements, staging a story that often happens in the days when the ghost door is opened.
Haunted location 3 school
Many schools in Hong Kong have been built on mass graves or have had tragic deaths on the original sites, so the phenomenon of supernatural phenomena continues. Although the practice of trying to calm the ghost qi in the hope of letting the students have yang qi was very effective, the school after night became a testing ground for the ghost power to fight back.
"Online Strange Talk" 2000 "Online Strange Talk" is a well-known segmented horror movie, with a haunted boarding school as the background, has told the campus incredible events, personality split and space distortion three stories, a variety of strange and terrifying bridges take turns, but also lively, in order to let everyone distinguish the difference between the school and other evil places, the screenwriter also painstakingly arranged some horror elements with campus characteristics, and the students related to the school, Teachers and even vulgar decorators have become the protagonists of the ghost. Throughout the Hong Kong ghost films, although haunted places abound, most of them are not fixed in a main venue, on the one hand, to make the plot richer, on the other hand, a single place is too much test of the screenwriter's ability. And "Online Strange Talk" is very rare to put all the supernatural events that have occurred in the school, and to give all the strange things that can happen in the school at one time, even if it looks a bit sloppy, but it also plays a good effect.
"School Cemetery": With the directing of "When the Peach Is Ripe", "Jade Futon's Jade Girl Heart Sutra" and other films in the Hong Kong erotic film circle, Qian Wenkun, who is revered as a big man in the Hong Kong erotic film circle, changed the normal in 2007 and filmed a very conservative campus horror movie "School Cemetery", the film also used a lot of computer stunts, although the effect is a bit fake, there is also a lot of unexpected thrillers, such as the bridge section that shows black marks on the wall after death, which is reminiscent of a classic scene in Ito Junji's manga, if it is plagiarism , it is also just right to put it in the film.
Haunted location 4 Building
Due to the problem of site selection, many buildings will become a place of gathering shadows, and ghosts cannot go out, but they stay here for a long time to grasp alternate. Especially office buildings, only provide office space, popular during the day, once at night, people go to the empty building, it becomes gloomy, which from the polar yang to the yin of the sudden change, but also can make dirty things breed.
"Murder List": In 1981, the weirdest director of the new wave of Hong Kong films, Yu Yunkang, with "Murder List" frightened the entire Hong Kong Island, the film began with the male protagonist applying for the night manager, invisibly slowly interspersed with many bizarre strange things, with the plot from shallow to deep, gradually introduced the vigil to collide with ghosts, fierce house feng shui, red ghost incident and other plots, step by step to unveil the ultimate horror. And with the tragic death of the night administrator one by one, and even the master of Maoshan who is highly skilled in magic is secretly killed, the audience follows the male protagonist's uneasiness from the wind and rain all the way to the brink of despair... Yu Yunkang has an innate sensitivity to the use of light, and like a painter who can adjust paints, he uses different lights to reconcile the most disturbing colors in excellent spectra. Although "Murder List" borrows the relevant plots of classic religious horror films such as "Devil's Baby", "Evil Omen", "Exorcist" and so on, it seamlessly re-transplants the tricks of this set of tricks to the mainland of Hong Kong Island, and then through the packaging of traditional feng shui, Maoshan magic and other ghost cultures, combined with the depressing sense of modern forest city of reinforced cement of high-rise buildings, it successfully reproduces the story of the reincarnation of the ghost child.
"Night of the Soul": In 1995's "Night of the Soul", Liu Zhenwei upgraded himself on the basis of the "Ghost Mansion" directed by him in 1989, and joined hands with Stephen Chow to create a comedy horror film that perfectly combines scared people and laughed at the dead, all kinds of nonsensical bridge sections make people laugh at the nerve disorder without limit, and the fright scene is also greatly increased, and the old woman who looks back and smiles on the TV set is frightening.
"Office has a ghost": 2002's "Office has a ghost" is also one of the representative works of this kind of ghost story, the office building that appears in the film, there must be nine people dying every year, the horror scene in the film is very outstanding, just smirking in the women's toilet, being walked by the ghost on tiptoe, and eventually leading to three different ways to commit suicide, the degree of horror is quite high.
Haunted location 5 resort
Cheung Chau Dong Tee Resort is a famous holiday destination in Hong Kong, because of its beautiful environment, facing the sea, spring blossoms, and naturally has become a popular place for suicide. There have been more than twenty charcoal suicides in this holiday home, so there are many related ghost stories and rumors. The film "Yin Yang Road Ten Declaration Spell", "Dongdi Vacation Haunted House", "Killing Resort House" are all based on this theme, but it is basically a bad film.
"Ghost In the World": On the contrary, Xu Anhua's "Ghost World" in 2001 spent ten minutes to briefly introduce the situation of the small holiday home in Dongdi through the young people's play to scatter their hearts, tell ghost stories on the bonfire, and the bridge section where the fat sister was ghosted. In the next time, the female ghost here transferred to Shu Qi and began a relationship with Eason Chan. Whether it is the opening scene of the headless incident of the tram, or the scene of Hui Yinghong being snatched away by the upper body of the two ghosts later, all let people appreciate the delicate ghost ancient style of Xu Anhua. The ghosts in the film, as described in the title "Ghost In the World", shuttle through the sea of people and become a part of people's daily lives, whether it is a female ghost on the upper body of a holiday home, or a ghost who has been looking for a head, in addition to being horrified, let people appreciate the joys and sorrows, sorrow and helplessness of ghosts. The ghosts that appear indirectly in the film also make people unable to distinguish between true and false, whether they are ghosts in the human world or ghosts in the world. The film also well expounds the view that "unfinished things before death" continue to unfold after death, not simply searching for people or retaliation, not simply scaring for the box office and gimmicks, Xu Anhua should know the hardships of being a ghost.
"Skinny Ghost": In 1992, "Skin-Dumping Ghost" was released, which tells the story of a big sister who is killed by witchcraft and tragically pickpocketed, which takes place in an outlying island resort. Although it has both pickpocketing and fragrant scenes, it is still relying on Lin Zhengying to ensure the box office, although his role in the play is not much, it is only a supporting role, but from the box office of that year' box office better than the results of "Li Wang", it is not difficult to see the Hong Kong audience's love for "Uncle Nine". Although the plot of the film itself is relatively weak, it has become one of the few films, only the unjust souls have no zombies, but need the master to go out and exorcise the demons.
Haunted location 6 Hospital
The hospital, a place that witnesses life, old age, illness and death every day, if it is not haunted, it makes people feel strange. Most of the people who are sick and hospitalized are weak and have low luck, and it is inevitable to hit ghosts. However, hong Kong ghost films will take the hospital as a haunted mecca, and enjoy it tirelessly, at least most medical workers would rather deal with ghosts than encounter medical troubles.
"No. 7 Chaguan": 2001 Qiu Litao's "No. 7 Chaguan", which tells the story of the senior inspector of the Serious Crime Unit who can see ghosts after two years of being shot and unconscious. Although the title of the film is related to the police station, half of the time is in the hospital, Xu Zhian played by the senior inspector, in the hospital many times encountered ghosts, and met the ghost of the psychiatrist before his death, and slowly learned about the ghost world. One of the main lines of the film is the love scene between him and Li Lizhen, who plays a nurse, from the object after two years of coma, to the slow recovery, sometimes interspersed with some shocking shots, slowly coming. Another main line of the film revolves around a serial rape and murder case, through the victim's unjust soul to the police station to report the case, identify the murderer and the ghost of the psychologist, the spirit and criminal investigation elements are better combined. The film also raises some of the more interesting topics. For example, Lei Yuyang, who plays a subordinate, explained the difference between seeing ghosts and bumping into ghosts when he experienced the report of unjust souls, seeing ghosts needs yin and yang eyes and a specific magnetic field, and colliding with ghosts is that everyone has a chance, or they can't hit, and they hit the jackpot when they hit them, which is basically a resentful level of unjust souls.
"See the Ghost 2": In 2004, the Pang brothers' "See the Ghost 2" left a great shadow on the pregnant women in Hong Kong that year. The film conveys two crucial messages, one is that people are most likely to see ghosts when they are close to death or childbirth, and the other is that every pregnant woman will be accompanied by a ghost waiting to be reincarnated. Therefore, when Shu Qi had both near-death and production experiences, the probability of hitting a ghost naturally soared. Although there are many thriller scenes in the film, the most lingering thing is definitely the two ghost reincarnation scenes in the hospital. There is an old Chinese saying that having children is used to pay off debts.
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