For a long time, "Mountain Village Old Corpse" was a representative work of Hong Kong horror films.
The film opens with high energy, a group of young people playing a game of soul summoning with corpse oil, but accidentally find that their partner has been dead for a long time and has caught the audience's attention.
Afterwards, the members who participated in the ghost game hallucinated and died unexpectedly one by one, and the female ghosts appeared from time to time to make the plot confusing.
As the protagonist and his party investigate the reasons for the appearance of the female ghost, it is learned that the reason why people were killed by the female ghost's hallucinations was because they drank the pool water soaked in the bones of the female ghost.
Unlike other evil spirits who only care about scaring people, but have no personal characteristics.
"Mountain Village Old Corpse" has designed a female ghost in blue clothes with long hair and black teeth for the first time.
The crashing sound of his bones and singing Cantonese opera from the bottom of the pond frightened many viewers.
The reason why "Mountain Village Old Corpse" can be so scary is due to its "anti-routine" temperament everywhere.
For example, Xiaoming, who occupies a lot of space in the film and drives the main plot of the story, is considered by many viewers to be the protagonist of this film, but in the second half of the film, Xiaoming is accidentally killed by Chu Renmei, which makes the audience feel deep despair.
When he was a child, he had a very good personal relationship with Chu Renmei, and the old man who escaped the disaster with a bracelet was eventually brutally killed because of revealing Chu Renmei's secrets, which was the embodiment of Chu Renmei's fierce and fierce personality.
Although "Old Corpse in the Mountain Village" integrates the traditional Chinese Cantonese opera singing voice, folk ghost stories and other creativity, after all, it is a copy of the work of "Midnight Bell", and the elements of tribute to "Midnight Bell" can be seen from the video tapes that appear in the film and the costumes of people.
In terms of originality, "Mountain Village Old Corpse" can hardly be said to be the first horror film in Hong Kong, and its box office performance is ranked outside the 50th.
Far less than the films released in the same year, such as "Eyes Showing Fierce Light" and "Asking Rice When People Don't Get Close".
In fact, in 1999, when "Mountain Village Old Corpse" was released, a horror film called "Yin yang road murder weekly" crushed "Mountain Village Old Corpse" in all directions at the box office.
From 1997 to 1999, "Yin Yang Road" quickly occupied the Hong Kong horror film market at a rate of 2 films per year.
Compared with the sequels after "The Old Corpse of the Mountain Village", which have a lot of different styles.
Qiu Litao, known as a "professional household of heavy taste Hong Kong films", directed by Liu Xiaowei, and written by Liu Xiaowei, plus Gu Tianle, Wu Yongwei, Lei Yuyang and Li Yaoxiang formed a fixed protagonist group, making "Yin yang road" highly unified.
As a leading figure in Hong Kong's heavy taste films, Qiu Litao, who has just finished filming "Ebola Virus", is gradually tired of shooting CLUT films with visual impact as the selling point.
At this time, the spiritual zombie films represented by Lin Zhengying gradually declined, and the audience gradually developed aesthetic fatigue for the costume horror films.
The "Dragon Woman" series "July 14" and "July 13 See the Dragon Woman" created by Qian Shengwei have gradually achieved commercial success, and modern urban legends represented by Roland have become the mainstream of horror films.
In 1995, segmented ghost films began to become popular, and the ghost story collection composed of multiple directors saw the dawn of a show for more novice directors.
Taking advantage of this shareholder wind, Qiu Litao also saw a huge business opportunity for horror films, so in 1997, a movie called "The Tombstone of Yin yang road" met with the audience.
Due to the bright pace of the film, horror and entertainment elements, the investment of 500,000 yuan in exchange for 6 million box office results, so that "Yin Yang Road" in the same year while the iron was hot to launch the sequel "I am around you".
Each "Yin Yang Road" is through a variety of professions such as radio DJs, funeralists, taxi drivers, etc., to bring the stories of urban ghosts and ghosts to the screen.
The small stories in the film were even directly copied by various ghost story magazines and audiobooks, which shows how influential "Yin Yang Road" was at that time.
As a horror series spanning more than 20 years, almost half of the Hong Kong showbiz industry has starred in "Yin Yang Road".
Among them, many Li Zi, Cai Shaofen, Zeng Zhiwei, Qian Jiale, Cheng Kui'an, etc. have appeared in the series.
Roland, known as the "Ghost Queen", has almost become the soul of the series, becoming the initiator of the ghostly body.
Below, let the fork bring you the most classic "Yin yang road" and the most famous first "tombstone".
Copying Tombstones, Forbidden Locations, This Film Adapted from Urban Legends Is The "Childhood Shadow" of How Many Viewers
At the beginning, Lei Yuyang mysteriously stands in front of the grave to explain to the audience the theme of the film of "fearing ghosts and gods".
This also leads to the first story, the copying of the tombstone...
Ah Ken, played by Gu Tianle, and two friends came to the beach to play, but the three of them are young and strong after all, and there is nowhere to vent their energy, suffering from no female companion.
Just when Aken was in the woods, he suddenly saw a swimming girl.
Just as Aken triumphantly showed off his sexual encounter with two friends, he didn't want the girl who had just swum to fly past his eyes, which really startled Aken.
Just as the two friends scolded Aken for joking with them, they suddenly noticed that 3 young girls appeared next to their tent
Several young people drank three times, and the most beautiful girl proposed to go to the nearby cemetery to play the game of "copying tombstones".
The so-called "tombstone" is to write down the name and birthday of the deceased on the tombstone, until dawn to see who copied the most who is the victor.
With a knife on his head and instigated by the girls, Aken and the others decide to start this dangerous game, but before they can start the mysterious old lady and grave beater He Bo, reminding them not to be disrespectful to the deceased.
While copying the tombstone, Aken suddenly finds a picture of a beautiful girl on a tombstone, and the frightened Aken runs into the forest.
It turned out that the "tombstone" was a prank that several friends had come up with, and just when several people were immersed in frightening pleasure, they found that their previous prank did not design the plot of the long-haired female ghost, and several people who suddenly felt wrong screamed and fled the forest.
The next day, several people suddenly discovered Aken's grave; when they looked around for Ho Bo, they were told that Ho Bo had died a few years earlier.
Just when everyone was confused, Aken appeared in front of everyone and said that this was a joke he made with everyone, and in the future, don't be "scary", a few people are frightened.
Just as several people were preparing to leave by boat, they found AhKen standing on the shore and He Bo waved to everyone, and it turned out that he was really dead.
After the story is told, Lei Yuyang drove at midnight and happened to meet the crew who was filming the romance film "A Thousand Medicines have awakenings" (cottage "Heavenly Love"), and the funny thing is that the male and female protagonists have changed from Andy Lau to Wu Zhixiong and Yuan Qiongdan.
Inspired by the crew, Lei Yuyang began to tell a second ghost story, Yin Yang Road.
On a rainy night, the wife played by Zhong Liti and the husband played by Chen Jinhong made an appointment to eat at the restaurant, in order to commemorate the wedding anniversary of the two, the wife specially purchased a watch as a gift.
Just after talking to her husband on the phone, a mysterious old lady suddenly appeared and warned her wife that the road ahead was dangerous and not to go any further.
At the same time, mr. Du, the husband of the intermediary, is driving to take customers to see the house, but the situation is frequent during the drive, and the feng shui master in the car is more vigilant that her husband has recently been trapped by the situation and will have a bloody disaster.
What the wife does not know is that the husband and the female colleague have developed into an underground lover, and the two have an argument with the wife because of the relationship, and the car is out of control and crashes into the foot of the mountain.
Outside the restaurant was closed due to torrential rain, my wife received a call from Mr. Du asking her to wait patiently at the restaurant.
However, when Mr. Du came to the restaurant, the two could not see each other.
Just when her wife was puzzled, she learned from the police that her husband's car had been buried alive in a mudslide.
The second story has just ended, and Lei Yuyang has begun to tell the story that happened to his twin brother again.
In the process of worshipping his friend Aken, JOJO accidentally discovers the spirit of Mr. Du who died in the previous story.
While lamenting Mr. Du's untimely death, JOJO did not find that two bloody handprints appeared on his pants for no reason.
The appliances in the home turn on automatically for no reason, and an invisible force seems to invade JOJO's home.
Since that night, JOJO has gradually become unusual, wearing red clothes every day to make love to Mr. Du's spirit card.
Two friends who are scared out of the room by JOJO's abnormal behavior happen to encounter a psychic expert "a mole".
At the point of a mole, Mr. Du's ghost only agreed to leave jojo, and a mole warned everyone not to wear red clothes to worship in the cemetery in the future.
With the end of the JOJO affair, this also leads to the fourth story Tuo status.
The big movie star Xiong Brother's new film "A Thousand Medicines Have Awakening" was released in the theater, and The male brother and his girlfriend also came to the theater for the first time to watch their new film.
However, due to poor vision, the male brother and his girlfriend moved to two empty seats. At this time, Lei Yuyang suddenly appeared to inform Brother Xiong that these two actions were "top status" and were not for the living to sit.
But Brother Xiong obviously did not take Lei Yuyang's words to heart.
The girlfriend was in a hurry, and she timidly asked her brother to come out and accompany her to the toilet.
Sure enough, when it was convenient for his girlfriend, he suddenly found that the football that rolled over had become a human head; the male brother also found a pair of strange embroidered shoes in the men's toilet, and the tap water on the ground turned into blood.
The male brother, who hurried back to his seat in the movie hall, found a strange woman sitting in his seat.
The two people who hurriedly converged panicked to find the exit of the theater, but found that they had encountered a ghost hitting the wall and could not escape the theater.
At this time, Lei Yuyang suddenly appeared and told the two that the movie was not finished, and they could not escape from this theater.
Under the greeting of Lei Yuyang, Brother Xiong suddenly found another himself and his girlfriend sitting in the movie hall watching a movie.
When the male brother woke up again, he found that it was just a nightmare he had made.
But when he was about to leave, he found that his ticket stub had become thirty years ago.
A horror classic that can truly represent the "taste of Hong Kong"
As a low-budget horror film, Qiu Litao and others use simple lighting and music to create a good scary effect.
The four stories in the film take into account the strange feelings of people and ghosts, and the strange talk of the city.
As a character who died in the first story, Ah Ken, played by Gu Tianle, runs through the entire movie and becomes a clue character.
The fierce-looking, diminutive Wu Zhixiong recoiled Andy Lau in "Heavenly Love", which made people can't help but be funny.
Whether it is the comedic effect or the degree of horror, "Yin Yang Road" shows the salty and wet spoof, crazy and strange temperament of Hong Kong-style horror films.
Although after that, at the rate of two films per year, "Promotion and Fortune", "Walking with Ghosts" and "Fortune at First Sight" were successively launched, only the first 5 works were really good.5
After that, "Yin yang road" was directed by different directors, less "Qiu Litao" whimsical salty and wet style, several stories interlocked, self-justifying continuity, so that "Yin and Yang Road" was not guaranteed in its late season.
The reason why "Yin Yang Road" can shoot so many films is due to the soul character Qiu Litao's "small and broad", just using green light, weird music, and poor special effects to create a horror effect that frightens the audience.
As of 2017's "Always With You", "Yin yang road" has shot a total of 21 works, even if it is put in the international film world, "Yin yang road" can be regarded as the horror series with the largest number of episodes.
From time to time, the film also explores the causal cycles of "good and evil are rewarded" and "fear of ghosts and gods" in the traditional concept of Chinese.
Qiu Litao has added tributes to the "Shining", "Heavenly Love", "Titanic" and other era film and television symbols.
The audience also watched the lead actor Gu Tianle change from "Bai Gu" to "Black Gu".
"Mountain Village Corpse" and "Strange Talk Association" all bring together the short and exquisite style of Hong Kong films, but such works are short-lived after all.
Looking at the entire Hong Kong film market, no film can be as dozens of films as "Yin Yang Road".
These films may be full of logic holes and botched special effects, but in every way, "Yin Yang Road" is a landmark work of Hong Kong horror films and even Chinese horror films.
"Yin Yang Road" has developed unlimited creativity within a limited cost, laughing and cursing, and vividly showing the characteristics of Hong Kong-style horror films "all overheated, all crazy".
Maybe that's the charm of Hong Kong films.
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