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Released in 1986, "Yuan Zhenxia and Wesley" is the first "Wesley" film in the Chinese film industry, directed by "Li Wang" director Lan Naicai, supervising producer Wang Jing as a fan of "Wesley", who also served as the screenwriter of the film, and the other screenwriter was Ruan Jizhi, who later wrote the script for Xu Ke's version of "Qiannu Ghost". After understanding these two screenwriters, you can understand why this film is so strange and chaotic, erotic and bloody.
The film has a strong starring cast: Ni Kuang himself played himself in the opening of the film, Qian Xiaohao played Yuan Zhenxia, Zhou Runfa played Wesley, Qian Xiaohao became popular because of "Mr. Zombie", and Fa Ge just rose in value with "Hero Nature", the heroine Rainbow was played by the new "Hong Kong sister" Maggie Cheung, and Bai Su was played by "Overlord Flower" Hu Huizhong. Unfortunately, the roles of Chow Yun Fat and Hu Huizhong are too small, and they become two huge background boards in the film, and the male and female protagonists of this film are actually Qian Xiaohao and Maggie Cheung.
As the name suggests, the audience originally thought that the film was a two-male protagonist model, and as a result, Fa Ge was playing soy sauce from beginning to end, which was purely commercial fraud. After the release of this film, it only achieved a box office of 10.22 million Hong Kong dollars, falling out of the top ten box office of that year.
The story of this film is based on the "Blood Curse" in Ni Kuang's "Wesley" series of novels, but after Wang Jing's "magic reform", the story is far from the original. There are no science fiction elements in the film, and the director focuses on the display of witchcraft and witchcraft. Therefore, there are not only wizards and zombies in the film, but also blood curses, black heart drops, ghost face drops, small ghost drops and other evil arts, and the "monster" shape that appears at the end of the film is obviously borrowed from the classic sci-fi horror movie "Alien" that was a fire, which is typically a B-grade hunting cult film imitating Europe and the United States.
Director Lan Naicai is good at creating a horror and horror atmosphere, and he uses the special effects of the earth method steelmaking style to shoot a large number of fighting scenes extremely fierce and heavy, which has become the childhood shadow of many 80s and 90s.