Stephen Chow can be said to be our post-80s and post-90s movie idols, from "Shaolin Football" to "Kung Fu", from "God Eater" to "Yangtze River Seven", his films occupied almost all my childhood time. It can be said that he is a very important figure in the history of Chinese cinema.
Over the past few decades, Zhou Xingchi has also changed from a young student to a film master now.
In the eyes of most people, most of the movies starring Stephen Chow are comedies. But in the early stephen Chow films, the horror film genre also appeared. This is probably Stephen Chow's most experimental film.
This was mainly because Hong Kong films were in their prime at the time, and horror films were also one of the more popular genres. In the early stephen Chow films, Stephen Chow and Liu Zhenwei co-directed this horror comedy film "Night of the Soul".
"Night of the Soul" can be said to be a shadow of my childhood and that of most people. Among them, there are all kinds of ghosts, and the plot of the movie is empty and nonsensical.
One of the most impressive to me is that the ghost exorcism master played by Zhou Xingchi, who was finally chased by the fierce ghost, temporarily found four flying hats when he was forced to go nowhere by the fierce ghost. Originally thought it was a hat, they would jump straight down the stairs after putting it on, who knew that it was a magical scene that happened and they actually flew up in the air?
Although the special effects at that time were not as real and high-definition as they are now. But when I watched this scene at that time, I felt very magical. I also hope that when I was a child, I also had a hat that could fly so well.
The most desperate heroine is Mo Wenwei. She actually shaved a bald head for this movie. This is really shaving long hair like this, rather than turning themselves into a bald head with makeup techniques like some actors today.
It may also be because of this effort that Zhou Xingchi has made Karen Mok popular. Karen Mok is also a Fei girl, one of the best mixed. There is a successful development in the three fields of film and television songs.
The film is a horror comedy film jointly produced by Stephen Chow and Liu Zhenwei. Liu Zhenwei has filmed "Fierce Ghost Building" before and has a certain foundation for making horror films. In combination with Zhou Xingchi's imagination, they shot this movie in a very short time. But at that time, in Hong Kong films, their box office was not ideal.
The film is a reference to many classic films of the time, notably the French film This Killer Is Not Too Cold.
Even the name of leon, the male protagonist played by Stephen Chow, is very similar to the name of the movie, and the heroine image played by Karen Mok completely imitates the girl Matilda in this movie.
And when the movie came to Ang, I kept holding the pot of flowers. In Night of the Returning Souls, there is also a matching correspondence that acts more than just as a plant. In the film, it is used as a prop that can find ghosts.
The last scene where the ghost is possessed by a security guard and uses a chainsaw to open the door is a parody of the scene in "The Shining" where the door is opened with an axe.
The bridge section where Ruhua changes into women's clothes and chases After Captain Lu with a large axe for no reason is a tribute to the Rocky Horror Show.
Probably because of the short production cycle, this film only belongs to the superficial imitation level of these classic films and does not really polish and sculpt their deep meaning.
Probably for the sake of the box office, his forced rubbing of heat is also more reasonable now.
In addition to these, in fact, this film is not shoddy, it still has very good film technology in it. For example, the horror atmosphere of the film in this film is very good, no one makes a moving chair by himself, and a ghost dies in the TV set.
There's also the fact that the bgm of this movie is really a treasure-like existence for our generation. Any video as long as you put this bgm can feel that the ghost is coming.