In 1971, Jiahe signed Bruce Lee and planned a kung fu film for Bruce Lee, "Big Brother Tangshan".
At the beginning, this "Big Brother tangshan" was directed by Wu Jiajun. However, in the hands of Director Wu, the filming progress was slow, so Jiahe replaced Wu Jiajun and let Luo Wei take over the directorship of the film.
In the hands of Luo Wei, "Big Brother Tangshan" was successfully completed, and after its release, it also broke the box office record of Hong Kong films at that time. After "Big Brother Tangshan", Luo Wei and Bruce Lee joined forces again to cooperate in the kung fu film classic "Jingwumen".
The two works of "Big Brother Tangshan" and "Jingwumen" not only made Bruce Lee the box office overlord of Hong Kong films at that time, but also allowed director Luo Wei to quickly make a name for himself in the Hong Kong film market.
Aspiring directors are eager to develop their own film careers independently, and Luo Wei is naturally no exception. In 1975, Luo Wei left Jiahe and established his own "Luo Wei Pictures" and began to try to develop his own business independently.
After the establishment of Luo Wei Pictures, Luo Wei discovered the newcomer actor Chen Gangsheng, named him "Jackie Chan", and also planned a large number of kung fu film works, hoping to win the popular Jackie Chan.
In 1978, Luo Wei cooperated with Wu Siyuan's "Siyuan Pictures" in two works, "Snake-shaped Executioner" and "Drunken Fist". These two works also successfully made Jackie Chan embark on the peak of his career.
After "Drunken Fist", Luo Wei filmed "Laughing Fist Strange Move", "Dragon Fist", "One Move and Half Style Breaking into the River" and other works for Jackie Chan. With Jackie Chan's box office influence, "Luo Wei Pictures" also became the gold medal manufacturer in the kung fu film market at that time.
However, after entering the 80s, "Rovi Pictures" encountered a major development crisis.
In 1980, Jiahe spent a lot of money and poached Jackie Chan. With the "cooperation and dispersal" of Jackie Chan and Luo Wei, the "Luo Wei Pictures" under Luo Wei's name quickly lost the box office dividend of the kung fu film market.
In 1982, "Luo Wei Pictures", which lost Jackie Chan, was struggling in the kung fu film market and was about to go out of business. At this time, in order to stabilize the development of the company, Luo Wei decided to abandon the shooting of kung fu films and try to open up a new genre film market.
At this time, Luo Wei also focused on the creation of "horror films".
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, horror-themed film works quietly emerged in the Hong Kong film market.
Xu Anhua's "Crazy Robbery", Yu Yunkang's "Mountain Dog" and "Fierce List", Gui Zhihong's "Evil", "Deception" and "Demon", Xu Ke's "Hell Without Doors", Hong Jinbao's "Ghost Fighting Ghosts" and "People Are Scary" are all classics born at that time.
It is precisely because of this horror film market boom that In 1983, Luo Wei also led the company to shoot a horror film work - "The Magic Fetus". In this issue, we will talk about the "Magic Fetus" produced by Luo Wei Pictures.
In this "Magic Fetus", Rowe did not direct the filming of the film as a director. Instead, he sat in the producer's seat and coordinated the overall situation behind the scenes.
The directorship of the film is held by Liu Hongquan. In his early years, Liu Hongquan was an excellent photographer. Xu Ke's "Hell Without Doors", Wu Yusen's "Eight Colorful Lin Yazhen", and Cheng Xiaodong's "Life and Death Decision" were all filmed by Liu Hongquan.
In 1983, Liu Hongquan officially sat in the director's seat through this "Magic Fetus" and became a powerful leader under Luo Wei. In the mid-to-late 1980s, "Ghost Informant", "Harlem Action", "Chasing the Sun" and other works produced by "Luo Wei Pictures" were also directed and filmed by Liu Hongquan.
As the name suggests, this "Magic Fetus" tells a story of "the magic fetus harms people".
At the beginning of the movie, Mrs. Shen takes her second daughter-in-law, Shuzhen, to hang out at the Oban Festival temple fair. At an auction, The Shuzhen Ghost made God buy a uniquely shaped vase.
Since buying this vase, Shuzhen has loved the vase so much that she has been holding it even when she sleeps.
Mrs. Shen's eldest son, "Zhichang", had two sons under her knees, namely "Ah Quan" and "Ah Wei".
Ah Quan and Ah Wei were full of curiosity about the precious vase of the second aunt Shuzhen, so they stole the vase and wanted to play with it, but they were discovered by Shuzhen, and the two were also scolded.
Shuzhen's husband, who has been doing business outside for many years, rarely returns home. On this night, the husband returns, but finds Shuzhen in the house, intercourseing with a monster.
The angry husband rushes into the house, and the monster turns into a vase. The husband, enraged, broke the vase. However, it did not take long for the husband to decay and then jump out of the window and die.
A few days after her husband's death, Shuzhen also suffered an accident and fell to her death. Mrs. Shen invited the master to take care of the aftermath for her second son and second daughter-in-law.
On the day of the funeral, the mage found that Shuzhen's abdomen was rapidly protruding, and a magic fetus broke out. In order to suppress the demon fetus, the mage laid down a dharma array and attached a spirit rune to Shuzhen's spiritual seat.
The mage told Old Lady Shen not to reveal the spirit rune, otherwise it would bring disaster to the Shen family.
In the blink of an eye, 12 years have passed, Ah Quan and Ah Wei have grown up one after another, and Ah Quan has also met his girlfriend Juju.
On this day, it coincided with Mrs. Shen's 70th birthday. Ah Quan brings his girlfriend Juju to the birthday party. Juju unexpectedly removed the spirit rune on Shuzhen's tablet, and as a result, released the suppressed demon fetus.
That night, the magic fetus was possessed by the black dog fed by the Shen family, and he also borrowed the black dog's body and bit Ah Quan. In order to protect himself, Ah Quan killed the black dog.
Ah Quan's parents took Ah Quan to the hospital, and the second son, Ah Wei, also cleaned the room and took the black dog to the wild to bury. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the magic fetus left the black dog's body and attached itself to Ah Quan.
Possessed by the magic fetus, Ah Wei attacked Juju and the nanny in the family, and Ah Wei's parents also frequently saw Shuzhen's ghost at night.
In order to seek peace for the Shen family, Old Lady Shen went to the mage again. The mage pinched his fingers and learned that someone had broken the seal and released the magic fetus, and the magic fetus was also possessed by Ah Wei.
The mage told Old Lady Shen that as long as ah wei was sprinkled with eagle blood, ah wei would disappear with the magic fetus. The old lady could not bear to let her grandson die, so the mage decided to open the altar and ambush the demon fetus in Ah Wei's body.
Unfortunately, the mage's Daoist practice was not enough, and he was "killed" by the demon tire when fighting the fa.
Through Ah Wei's body, the demon fetus returned to the Shen family and went on a killing spree. In order to stop the demon fetus, Mrs. Shen finally decided to sprinkle Ah Wei with eagle blood. At the end of the story, Ah Wei also follows the magic fetus and scatters his soul.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Hong Kong's economy developed rapidly, and under the impetus of the economic tide, people's material life pressure became more and more great.
The birth of newborns brought huge financial pressure to many families at that time. At that time, many Hong Kong film creators also grasped the social phenomenon of "baby fear" and made it into a film work to analyze and reflect on real life.
The same is true of Xu Anhua's "Crazy Robbery" and Yu Yunkang's "Murder List".
In this "Magic Fetus", Luo Wei and Liu Hongquan also followed the trend and designed a story of "baby fear". However, it is different from works such as "Crazy Robbery" and "Murder List" that dissect human nature and reflect on life.
"The Devil's Fetus" does not make too many metaphors for real life, but simply focuses the film on the story performance of "the devil's fetus harms people", creating a purely commercial work.
In order to take care of the entertainment effect of the work, Luo Wei and Liu Hongquan also designed many alternative scenes in "The Magic Fetus" in an attempt to cater to the audience market. For example, shuzhen's intimate bridge with the monster, the bloody and violent fighting scene, and the horror picture of Ah Wei splitting when the magic fetus is finally destroyed.
These cult-filled footage sections have become a lingering childhood nightmare for a generation.
The excellent creation of the horror atmosphere and the bold performance of the hunting shot made this "Magic Fetus" achieve a good response in the Hong Kong film market in 1983, rushing to the 32nd place in the annual box office list.
After "Demon Fetus", the Hong Kong film market has also set off a wave of genre films of "reincarnation of monsters, reincarnation and harm of people", and works such as "Reborn Soul Hunting" and "Fierce Ghost Eating Human Fetus" are the leaders in this trend of follow-up.
The 1983 "Magic Fetus" successfully enabled Rowey's "Love Pictures" to gain a firm foothold above the box office market of Horror Harbor films. In the mid-to-late 1980s, "Luo Wei Pictures" invested in a large number of horror Hong Kong films, including many works such as "Haunted by Evil Ghosts", "Zombie Young Master", "Monster City", and "Fierce Ghost Tour Group".
In 1992, Luo Wei also integrated the creative concept of the "magic fetus" film into the "zombie film", and worked with Hong Jiaban to shoot "Mr. New Zombie".
Unfortunately, in the early 90s, "zombie films" quickly went into decline. The box office setback of this "New Mr. Zombie" has seriously hurt the vitality of "Luo Wei Pictures", and the investment failure of "One Knife in the City" in 1993 has made "Luo Wei Pictures" close its doors.