Friends who like domestic horror films will certainly not be unfamiliar with the "Yin yang road" series. It exists like a horror + funny "ghost movie story club", which is really a classic.
This series has shot 19 films in a short period of six years, a total of 21 films, which is really productive! The first was directed by Qiu Litao, and the most classic first few were made by him. But like many movie series, the more it goes back, the more it declines, like just to rub traffic, not paying attention to the quality of the content, so that many fans are very disappointed. It also directly leads to the formation of a polarized word of mouth, people who like "Shadow Road" will call it a classic, while those who don't like it will feel that it is a shoddy rotten ghost film.
Today we will focus on the first seven parts that I personally think are more "authentic", which are composed of several small stories, and then connected with simple character relationships, taking you back to the era of the "Yin yang road" series of explosions.
1. "Yin Yang Road 1"
Release date: 1997-5-10
Director: Qiu Litao
"Yin Yang Road 1" is the first part of this series, mainly telling 4 small stories.
1. "Tombstone" starring Gu Tianle and Cai Shaofen
Three men and three women meet during camping, and in the evening, in order to show their courage, the boys propose to go to the nearby cemetery to copy the name of the tombstone, and without accident, they bump into the ghost, and the ending is reversed.
2. "Yin Yang Road" starring Chen Jinhong and Zhong Liti
A couple made an appointment to go to dinner, but when they arrived at the door of the restaurant, they could not see each other and could only contact each other by phone. In fact, her husband died in a traffic accident with Xiao San on the way to come.
3. "Red Dangdang" starring Mak Jiaqi and Ding Zijun
Several friends go to worship the deceased in the first story, so one of the girls in red underwear is haunted by the ghost of her husband in the second story. This story tells us not to just wear red underwear and go out.
4. "Tuo Status" starring Wu Zhixiong and Wu Yongwei
The movie star Brother Xiong took his girlfriend to the theater to watch the movie he participated in, accidentally sat in the seat that should be reserved for the ghost, and then staged a farce of the ghost hitting the wall.
Yin Yang Road 2: I'm at Your Side
Release date: 1997-9-13
"Yin Yang Road 2" continues the style of the previous part, the quality has gone up a step, and it has also made the old song "I am around you" a feeling of horror until now. There are three main stories to tell.
1. "Anita Jumping Off the Building" starring Li Huimin and Ding Zijun
A radio supernatural program receives a call from the listener Anita, telling the pain of the loss of love, the impatient long hair makes her jump off the building, and the result is really jumped, after which the long hair begins to become strange, and finally goes down to reunite with Anita.
2. "Cruise Ship Horror" starring Lei Yuyang and Zhang Daming
Several men made an appointment with beautiful women to go to sea together, but they didn't expect that all the beautiful women had turned into ghosts, which was really a knife on the head of the color word.
3. "Motorcycle Collision Ghost" starring Gu Tianle
When Gu Zai rode home on a motorcycle, he knocked down the woman in red one after another, he thought it was a hallucination, but the next day he found that there was blood and hair on the motorcycle, was it reality or a paranoia attack?
"Yin Yang Road 3: Rising Coffin fortune"
Release date: 1998-1-3
"Yin Yang Road 3" tells three stories that happened to the funeral home staff.
1. "Star Chaser" starring Ding Zijun and Gu Tianle
The makeup artist of the funeral home received a big job, his obsessive singer Chen Meili was killed in a car accident, and at the same time disfigured, the makeup artist tried many methods but could not be perfectly restored, and finally dressed himself as Chen Meili and lay in the coffin.
2. "Old Woman Haunted" starring Lei Yuyang and Wu Yongwei
Ah Chang claimed that the Taoist priest and his friends had done things for the deceased old woman, so as to deceive the mother-in-law's daughter of a sum of money, and the daughter said to the mother's portrait that there was something wrong with them, and sure enough, after Ah Chang and several people got ill-gotten gains, they encountered strange things.
3. "A Hong" starring Gu Tianle and Yuan Jieying
When the director's Ali has been secretly in love with the makeup artist Ah Hong, but Ah Hong and Ah Li's scumbag classmates got along well, but the scumbag man dumped her after learning of Ah Hong's profession, and Ah Hong did not want to jump off the building for a while to commit suicide. After that, he wrapped up with the scumbag.
Yin Yang Road 4: Walking with Ghosts
Release date: 1998-08-25
Director: Qiu Litao
Yin Yang Road 4 is three stories that revolve around a Tour group in the Philippines.
1. "Man Ghost Love" starring Hong Tianming
The courier is responsible for transporting the ashes of a young girl home, and on the way, strange things continue to happen, witnessing a ghostly love affair.
2. "Honeymoon Couple" starring Gu Tianle and Sun Jiajun
The newlyweds were supposed to go on their honeymoon, but they ended up in tragedy because of their suspicion and distrust of each other.
3. "Dancing Bar" starring Lei Yuyang and Zhang Daming
Three friends want to "have fun" in a foreign country, so they go to a bar, only to encounter a large group of female ghosts.
5. "Yin Yang Road 5: Getting Rich at First Sight"
Release date: 1999-01-22
"Yin Yang Road 5" mainly tells three stories around Lin Zhongfa, starring Gu Tianle.
1. "Night Shift Driver"
Lin Zhongfa is a night taxi driver, and one night he and his colleagues encountered ghost passengers.
2. "One person half"
Lin Zhongfa made a good bet, in order to hide debts with his wife and son to live in an old house, strange things happened one after another, only to find that the ghost of the original owner of the house has been in the house, Lin Zhongfa and the male ghost reached an agreement to help him transfer, he will share half of all to the male ghost as a reward. But he did not expect that in the end, even his wife and son would have to be "one and a half", and in the end he chose to die together.
3. "Haunted Mansion"
Lin Zhongfa's son grew up working as a security guard in a building that was located on the site of the old house where he lived when he was a child. The mansion was often haunted, and his mother suspected that it was Because of Lin Zhongfa, so she went to find out, and sure enough, the couple reunited.
6. "Yin Yang Road 6: Murder Weekly"
Release date: 1999-9-2
This is only a story of "revenge of the wronged soul", but there is a reversal that is very suspenseful and wonderful.
Starring Gu Tianle and Li Zi, it tells that when the female model fell off the building, she happened to be bumped into by several weekly reporters, and they not only saw death and did not save, but took a bunch of large-scale photos and published them in the weekly magazine. Later, the ghost of the female model took revenge on the weekly boss and staff. In the end, it is found that the police officer in charge of investigating the case is the fuse of the whole thing, and the next target is him, and what will be his fate?
7. "Yin Yang Road 7: Bumping into the Right"
Release date: 2000-1-15
Director: Nan Yan
This one has changed the director, obviously feels that the style is different, and compared with the above films, I always feel that something is missing, but the touching love story is still good!
Starring Gu Tianle and Chen Songling, it tells the story of the crew coming to a desolate island to shoot a MV for the female singer. Because they inadvertently lifted the seal of the spell, strange things happened one after another. Finally learned that the original village chief's daughter and Ah Le fell in love and became pregnant before marriage, which was in their place to be impregnated in a pig cage, the village chief vigorously opposed this relationship, ordered someone to kill Ah Le and destroy the body, the daughter knew that after throwing herself into the sea, the two infatuated souls have been looking for each other on the island, but they have never been able to imagine.
The above seven are the early classic works of the "Yin Yang Road" series, the following is a brief introduction to the other 14, most of which are starred by Roland, Tang Jiahui and others, but the lineup of the first seven parts has no longer appeared, especially without Gu Tianle.
"Yin Yang Road 8: Coffin Boy" 2001-1-4
"Yin Yang Road 9: Life Turns to Qiankun" 2001-1-11
"Yin Yang Road 10: Declaration Spell" 2001-3-22
"Yin Yang Road 11: The Death of a Ghost", 2001-5-17
"Yin Yang Road 12: Beauty Corpse" 2001-10-18
"Yin Yang Road 13: Flower Ghost" 2002-1-24
"Yin Yang Road 14: Double Ghost Shoot Door" 2002-5-2
"Yin Yang Road 15: Guests Like Souls Come" 2002-7-4
"Yin Yang Road 16: Back to the Era of Martial Arts" 2002-9-5
"Yin Yang Road 17: Ghosts in the Cell" 2002-12-5
"Yin Yang Road 18: Ghost Upper Body" 2003-2-27
"Yin Yang Road 19: I See Ghosts in My Eyes" 2003-6-19
Yin Yang Road 20: Descending Head- 2007
It is a special episode directed by Qiu Litao and released on the 10th anniversary of the "Yin Yang Road" series in 2007, but it has lost the style of the past.
"Yin Yang Road 21 is always around you" - 2017
This is a commemorative version released on the 20th anniversary of Halloween 2017, directed by Qiu Litao, starring Gu Tianle, Zhang Zhilin, Cai Zhuoyan, She Shiman and so on. But it's a warm film wrapped in a thriller coat.
From the perspective of release time, those few films from 01 to 03 are completely for the sake of rubbing heat, like catching a train, mass production, it is said that some are actually filmed with DV, it is really only unexpected that there is no rush to do it! It is clear that the level is falling off a cliff. The last two are obviously eating the old book, but the audience does not buy it.
Is it that the classics cannot be surpassed or is there some other reason why we can still only miss the era of classic movies decades later, and dare not expect good works?
The above is the content of this issue, only represents a personal point of view, do not like to spray, we will see you in the next issue.