Hong Kong TVb's supernatural TV series "Twelve Legends" has been broadcast, and the story is based on twelve supernatural legends from all over Hong Kong. After the broadcast, many netizens complained that it was "tvb version into science". Because this TV series does not really involve ghosts, foxes and other supernatural elements from beginning to end, but the process of solving murder cases in the guise of "supernatural".
TV series "Twelve Legends"
In fact, in addition to "Twelve Legends", the "Zombie" and "Trick Detective" broadcast in recent years have been spat on by a large number of netizens.
The heyday of Hong Kong's psychic TV series dates back to the 1990s to the beginning of the millennium. In 1985, "Mr. Zombie" starring Lin Zhengying, Qian Xiaohao and others became a hit, and a boom in supernatural film and television works rose. The most prominent non-zombie films in the supernatural theme works of this period are none other than zombie films.
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In 1993, Hong Kong TVB broadcast the zombie film "Big Head Green Fighting Zombie" starring Chu Yuan, Qian Xiaohao, Lai Yaoxiang and Zheng Xiuwen. The drama tells the story of a generation of ghost catcher Zhang Ke (Chu Yuan) and his disciples Zhang Beiping (Qian Xiaohao) and Zhang Nanjing (Li Yaoxiang) who broke into Hong Kong and continued to catch demons and eliminate evil. The story revolves around the love-hate entanglement between Zhang Beiping and the kind and gentle female ghost Piao Xue and her twin sister Piao Hong (Zheng Xiuwen) and tu Tianli (Guan Baohui), the daughter of a wealthy businessman.
Big Head Green Fighting Zombies (1993)
Zhang Beiping falls in love with the female ghost Drifting Snow, which causes Tu Tianli to be jealous. Tu Tianli pretended to commit suicide and threatened Zhang Beiping, but it turned out to be a fake. After she turned into a ghost, she refused to let go of her possessiveness towards Zhang Beiping, and bribed the local judge to become a super zombie. Zhang Can and his party, trying their best to prevent her from sucking up Zhang Beiping Yuanyang, eventually she was killed by tianlei.
After being sucked out of Yuanyang, Zhang Beiping quickly aged and returned to heaven with fatigue. Despite the obstruction of everyone, Piaohong sacrificed his virginity and life, exchanged his life for his life, and saved Zhang Beiping. After that, Piaohong died and reincarnated, and Zhang Beiping waited for 16 years.
The zombies in this show still follow the image in the movie. Their hands were stiff and flat, and they could only jump forward. They suck human blood, and as long as they are bitten, they will turn into bloodthirsty zombies. They are afraid of the sun, can only move in the dark, once illuminated by the sun, they will disappear.
Super zombie Slaughter Tianli
In 1995, Hong Kong's Asian Television broadcast the TV series "Zombie Governor" starring Lin Zhengying, Yuan Qiongdan and Xu Shaoqiang. Zombie Dao's long-haired Xiaofang (Lin Zhengying) and apprentice Ah Fan (Rong Jinchang) arrive in Hong Kong in order to track the Chinese zombie king Xuan Kui, and meet the fifth strange man Zhong Bang (Wang Shuqi), and fight Yang Yunfei, who has an improper heart and knows magic, and the foreign zombie king Count Su ruth.
TV series Zombie Governor (1995)
What is the fifth odd man is that the first generation belongs to gold, the second world belongs to wood, the third world belongs to water, the fourth world belongs to fire, and the fifth world belongs to wood. And every life must also be born in the yang year, the yang, the moon, the sun, the sun, and the sun, and those who have this kind of destiny are said to be able to freely travel between the yin and yang worlds.
In 1996, Hong Kong ATV took advantage of the trend to launch a sequel " Zombie Road Chief II", starring Lin Zhengying, Lin Wenlong, Shang Tian'e, and Wen Songxian. The story is no longer simply around zombies, but rich to ghosts, gods, demons, and immortals, and the whole drama is divided into ghost queens, Nanyang head-lowering techniques, lamp moths fighting fires, drama class unjust souls, and living Buddha reincarnation, a total of 5 stories.
TV series Zombie Governor II (1996)
The most memorable is the story of the Ghost Empress, which tells the story of the great thief Black Rose (Shang Tian'e) who stole the black pearl contained in Cixi's mouth in Cixi's mausoleum and destroyed the Gossip Array in the tomb, causing the zombie army to wake up. In order to retrieve this bead, Cixi sent Yin soldiers to capture the small shrimp rice that was with the black rose. Cixi mistakenly believed that Xiao Shrimp Mi was the Xuantong Emperor, and did not hurt him, but only hoped that he would accompany him. Master Mao is afraid that the shrimp and black roses will be turned into zombies, and he tries his best to rescue them. Later, when Cixi saw the newspaper where Emperor Xuantong had fled, she realized that Xiao Shrimp Rice was not her grandson, and in discouragement, she begged Master Mao to subdue her and the Yin soldiers.
Ghost Empress Dowager Cixi
In 1997, ATV was ready to invite Lin Zhengying to shoot "Zombie Road Chief III", but he was already suffering from liver cancer at that time, and died at st. Teresa's Hospital in Kowloon, Hong Kong at the end of that year. "Zombie Governor III" has never started filming again.
Although the zombies of this period can only move in the dark, they can already talk like people. Zombie films of this period have also begun to integrate into ancient Chinese historical legends and Western legends.
In 1998, Hong Kong Asia Television launched the TV series "I Have a Date with Zombies" starring Yin Tianzhao, Wan Qiwen, Chen Qitai and Yang Gongru. The story takes place during the invasion of China, when the guerrilla leader Guan Tianyou (Yin Tianzhao) and the Japanese commander Kazuo Yamamoto (Chen Qitai) accidentally bite and become a zombie during the fight between the zombie king's generals, thus beginning a life journey of immortality and immortality.
TV series "I Have a Date with a Zombie" (1998)
Ma Xiaoling is a descendant of the Ma clan of the Exorcist Dragon Clan, and the Ma family is a ghost exorcist who is called "South Mao And North Horse" with Mao Xiaofang. She runs a ghost exorcism company, LinglingTang, which is responsible for helping people in need to exorcise ghosts for a fee. While Tensuke becomes a policeman, Kazuo Yamamoto aspires to build a zombie empire.
Because in Hongxi Village that year, Ma Xiaoling's aunt Ma Danna could not stop the zombie king general in time, resulting in The bite of Kazuo Yamamoto and Guan Tianyou. In order to eliminate the zombies, she also joins forces with Kazuo Yamamoto. During this period, it is also interspersed with the stories of Japanese exorcisms, flat mothers becoming ghosts, and green snakes and white snakes, and introduces ancient myths and crossing factors.
Ma Xiaoling, a descendant of the Ma family of the Exorcist Dragon Clan
"I Have a Date with Zombies" made wan Qiwen play the image of this female mage wearing a miniskirt and white leather boots, holding an exorcism wand, and being cursed (the women of the Ma family of the exorcism dragon clan cannot shed tears for men, otherwise they will lose their mana), which is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Therefore, in 2000 and 2004, Hong Kong ATV successively launched "I Have a Date with Zombies II" and "I Have a Date with Zombies III.", which tells the story of Guan Tianyou and Ma Xiaoling successfully preventing Nuwa and her generals from destroying human beings, and dissuading the "war of annihilation" between The Virgin of Yaochi and the human king Fuxi, and finally saving mankind.
TV series "I Have a Date with Zombies II"
One of the most creative aspects of this TV series is the complete subversion of the image of the exorcist. In previous zombie films, mages were usually middle-aged men dressed in yellow robes and holding peach wood swords, and used weapons such as yellow paper, glutinous rice, and chicken blood to deal with zombies. As an exorcist of the new era, Ma Xiaoling is a fashionably dressed, sexy young woman, and most of the weapons she uses are electrical.
In 2005, Chinese mainland released "I Have a Date with Zombies IV." Judging from the name, this drama is a sequel to the first three parts of "I Have a Date with Zombies", but it has nothing to do with the previous story. The main actors Zhou Chuming, Chen Xiuli, Pan Lingling and Huang Yiliang are also from Singapore. This drama is mainly based on the head-descending witchcraft of Nanyang, telling the great war between humans, demons and zombies.
I Have a Date with a Zombie IV (2005)
Jin Renlong was the son of a wealthy Nanyang merchant, and after his father's death, his uncle, with the help of the witch Lu Yunzhen, used the head-lowering technique to kill him and seize his family property. Unexpectedly, his body happened to be struck by lightning and turned into the first zombie in Nanyang. In order to avenge his friend, Chen Xiaogui, a friend of Jin Renlong, worshiped the ghost hunting master Liang Zhonghuan as his teacher, and did not want to offend Lu Yunzhen, so she cast corpse poison on her and turned into a zombie. In order to kill Lu Yunzhen, Chen Xiaogui and Ai Renyan (Lu Yunzhen's sister) lured her to board a ship filled with explosives. As a result, Lu Yunzhen was allowed to escape.
After Wen Yan was reincarnated, zombies such as Chen Xiaogui and Jin Renlong have been immortal and alive. More than 100 years later, in the 20th century, Lu Yunzhen had become a countess and had been looking for people who matched her blood type and used them to smoke in the name of opening a research institute. As long as she sucks the blood of 1,000 people, her magic skills are unbeatable. In order to prevent her from continuing to harm people, Chen Xiaogui and Jin Renlong and their party continued to fight with her viciously, and finally eliminated her.
"I Have a Date with Zombies IV" is a drama that completely jumps out of the Chinese region and combines zombies and Nanyang witchcraft. At this time, zombies no longer need to hide in dark corners all the time, they can walk in the crowd, disguised as normal people. At this time, the zombies can be divided into good and bad, and the good zombies choose to maintain their lives through the blood of the hospital blood bank, refusing to directly suck the blood of the living.
In 2016, Hong Kong TVB aired the fashion zombie TV series "Zombie" starring Cheng Ka Ying, Xie Anqi, Chen Kailin and Chen Shancong. The show tells the story of the undead vs. zombies.
TV series "Zombie"
The Ming Dynasty Jinyi Guards Alive (Zheng Jiaying) has always made it his mission to hunt zombies, and has traveled to the ends of the earth for many years just to hunt down and kill zombie Ling Feng (Chen Shancong). He followed reliable news to Hong Kong and received the late supper canteen night, while enjoying the days with diners, while waiting for lingfeng to appear. In the process of waiting, he got acquainted with the female forensic doctor Lan Mengnan, not wanting Lan Mengnan's real identity to be a zombie, but she did not suck human blood.
The undead xing live
Legend has it that there is a wonderful spring in the world, and after the zombie drinks it, it can become a normal person. Lan Mengnan and Xing Alive hope to return to the future and find the material to destroy the zombies, but Ling Feng does not want to do so, thus triggering another struggle between the undead and the zombies...
The zombies of this period are no longer magical species supported by a mouthful of resentment, but patients with rare zombie viruses, as long as they find drugs to treat zombie viruses, they can also become normal people.
Zombies originate from Chinese legends of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and are a mysterious being with supernatural powers. With the progress of science, its image is becoming more and more abundant, I don't know how its image will change in 10 or 20 years from the zombie film?