Hong Kong movies are actually very good at following the trend, especially with Hollywood, hollywood popularity, Hong Kong filmmakers can also rely on gourd painting scoop to get a similar to the audience. In the 1980s, serial killer movies such as "Ghost Street" and "Halloween" were popular abroad, and hong Kong also had works such as "Mountain Dog" and "Life and Death Line", which still look very interesting today.
"Life and Death Line" is very similar to "There are eyes across the mountain", but the scene is replaced by an isolated island. One of the murderers is the idiot three brothers who are alone on the island, they first captured a mainland smuggling woman as a daughter-in-law, but the mother of the three brothers found out that the woman was not a virgin and died in a rage, so the three brothers had to find new prey. Just at this time, a nerdy teacher takes a group of adolescent students to camp on the island, so that they become the prey of the three brothers.
The teacher is the protagonist of this play, it is his cowardice that makes the three brothers step by step, so that he put forward the non-point request to marry one of the female students, the teacher not only did not dare to refuse in person, but also falsely coaxed the three brothers with the snake, agreeing to send the female students to become relatives the next day. When the lie was exposed, the three brothers became angry and went on a killing spree. The teacher and his students broke into a deserted house, where they confronted the three brothers, and a great battle began.
The film spends a lot of time describing the three idiot brothers, the eldest is vicious, the second is lascivious, the old third is bad, after their mother's death, the boss becomes the head of the family, he especially hurts the third, and the final killing is also caused by the third. After a bloody battle, the second, third and a few unlucky students were killed, and the boss rushed to the teacher, who had the opportunity to chop this nest with an axe, but he kept shouting in his mouth, "You kill me too!" "It reflects the boss's despair of life, and this killing is actually a process of self-destruction." The final scene mimics the ending of Friday 13, reflecting the creatives' active use (the screenwriting column of this film is marked as a collective creation).
Wild killing movies were once all the rage in Hollywood, and they can always make a lot of money with small and big, sequels and sequels. But the strange thing is that the Chinese-speaking areas are not particularly interested in such movies, not only are there fewer films, but there are no "tomes" that have lasted for many years like "Halloween", so "Life and Death Line" is a rare example of killing films in Chinese films.
The film's director, Liang Puzhi, was born in London, England, and grew up in the United Kingdom. He studied philosophy at university, studied film at the London Film School and worked for BBC television in the UK. In 1967, he came to Hong Kong to join TVB as a choreographer and trained choreographers. In 1969, he co-founded Guangyi Advertising Production Company with photographer He Dongni. In 1976, he began to direct films, and his first work was "Jumping Ashes", co-directed with Siu Fangfang, which became a pioneer of Hong Kong's new police films. Since then, he has directed a number of masterpieces, such as "Night Terror", "Killing Love", "Waiting for Dawn" and so on.
It is worth mentioning that after 97, Liang Puzhi returned to the UK to shoot "Vampire Love" starring Jude Low, recording the most delicate beauty of this big handsome guy. After that, Liang went to the United States to shoot several small-budget action movies and horror films, and it was not until 2013 that he returned to China to make a co-production film "Baby Jimi", although it was his best horror genre, but the evaluation was very poor.