Criminal investigation dramas have always been an important film and television genre of Hong Kong TV dramas, and in the history of Hong Kong film and television, a batch of classic criminal investigation dramas have been born, the most representative of which are "Forensic Records", "Criminal Investigation Archives" and "Forensic Pioneers".
The criminal investigation drama attracts the audience with suspenseful and reasoning plots, and as the protagonists peel back the cocoon, the audience will also sort out the confusing cases together, during which they are either nervous, or excited, or sad, or surprised, as if they are immersed in the scene and experience different excitement.
With the improvement of audience tastes, criminal investigation dramas will also add other elements, such as thrillers, horrors, supernatural, etc., the most representative of which is the "Supernatural Detective Files" produced by cable TV in 2003.
Judging from the title of the play, "Spiritual Detective Files" is obviously suspected of rubbing the popularity of "Criminal Investigation Files", and the two male protagonists in the play are also played by Tao Dayu and Liang Rongzhong, who have starred in "Criminal Investigation Files", and its intention is self-evident.
"Spiritual Detective Files" is mainly based on "spiritual anomalies", presenting the audience with a mysterious case that is difficult to explain.
I. "Supernatural Detective Files"
The male protagonist of the play, Ye Shenghui, is played by Tao Dayu, who is shadowed by mistakenly injuring a hostage female college student while hunting down a prisoner, and his mobile phone often receives the female student's life text message. Although this incredible text message is very true, the psychologist Li Jiawen (Li Shanshan) concludes that he has mental problems, so he is transferred to the antique warehouse to do clerical work.
There are three colleagues in the antique warehouse, namely veteran employee Chen Zhong (Li Longji), Kwan Shu Hoon (Leung Wing Chung), who has just finished undercover, and Bao Er (Yip Pei Wen), a policewoman who has just graduated.
The antique warehouse is a department of the police department that specializes in dealing with expired evidence, because these evidences are left by unsolvable cases, so they are often accompanied by supernatural events, and the antique warehouse also often has ghost rumors.
A few unusual people gathered in an unusual antique warehouse, and something unusual happened, and they made up the "Supernatural Detective File". The show is only ten short episodes, but it tells multiple supernatural stories.
First of all, what happened around Ye Shenghui, he came to the antique warehouse and soon found that Jiang Wenqiang, the head that had been preserved for more than twenty years, suddenly opened his eyes, which made him wonder whether the deceased had grievances, and at this time, Chen Shi, a "mentally ill" murderer of the Seven-Mouth Massacre, was preparing to be discharged from the hospital, Ye Shenghui found out after investigation that Chen Shi was also the murderer of Jiang Wenqiang, and Chen Shi's "mental illness" had always been pretended to evade legal sanctions...
After dealing with Chen Shi's case, Ye Shenghui found a female ghost with a child, and the fax machine automatically printed out an inexplicable fax. After Ye Shenghui investigated, he found that the original female ghost and her husband were martyred when they met, and her husband did not die and now became a vegetative person. The female ghost hopes that her husband can wake up and live a good life, Ye Shenghui came to her husband with a fax to convey the wishes of the female ghost, and the husband finally woke up...
Next up is Bao'er's ghost. Bao'er saw a girl on the printer, and the wall reflected a pregnant woman's b-ultrasound pattern, and after investigation, the crowd found that the pregnant woman was bitten by a baby in the abdomen. It turned out that the father of the child was convinced of the fortune teller's rumors, so he fed his wife water to drink when she was pregnant, resulting in fetal deformities, growing a dog ruler and biting her mother to death.
After investigating the case of the deformed baby, Bao'er encountered the ghost of mo chang, a missing colleague in front of the antique warehouse, and everyone investigated and learned that Mo Chang had raised money for his daughter to be treated and went to run a boat and was killed, and everyone helped him retrieve the lost money and find his daughter, but it was too late, his daughter died of illness, but he was also reunited with him in another world.
Then there is the story about Guan Shuxun, Guan Shuxun's girlfriend rain when he was undercover committed suicide, but Guan Shuxun saw in her mirror that he was killed by someone, and everyone finally found the murderer at the prompt of the mirror.
As for Chen Zhong, there is also a bizarre story. Chen Zhong has twin daughters, and the younger daughter killed her sister on her birthday because she and her sister robbed her boyfriend, and the sister's ghost often appears on her birthday. The public investigation found that there was another hidden plot in the case that year, it turned out that the sister was killed by her boyfriend by mistake, and the sister listened to his rhetoric to help him face the crime. The case was settled, and her sister was released from prison, but she still had a misunderstanding with Chen Zhong. The ghost of the sister got on the body of the sister and spoke his heart, resolving the misunderstanding between the sister and Chen Zhong...
The ending is about Li Jiawen. Li Jiawen's mother was robbed and killed in the garage, and after the relic box was moved to the antique warehouse, a staircase suddenly appeared, and Ye Shenghui followed the stairs to the garage and saw the ghost of Li Mother, but this is another time and space. Ye Shenghui took Li Mother out of the garage from the stairs, Li Mother just left the stairs and disappeared, Ye Shenghui was trapped in another time and space, and met the college student who was killed by mistake at that time. Ye Shenghui apologized to her and was forgiven, unraveling years of heart disease. Later, he met another female ghost, Macy, who was Li Jiawen's love enemy. It turned out that Li Jiawen and Macy fell in love with their ex-boyfriend Aaron at the same time. However, Aaron mistakes Macy for Li Jiawen because of mental pressure, and Macy associates with Aaron as Li Jiawen and dies on a date. Macy believes that he is Li Jiawen's substitute ghost and wants to seek revenge on Li Jiawen.
Chen Zhong and the others managed to open another space to save Ye Shenghui, but they also brought Macy and other ghosts back to reality. Macy eventually got into Li Jiawen's body and became one with her. The evidence of the antique warehouse was removed by the group of ghosts, and Chen Zhong entered the heterogeneous space alone in order to retrieve the evidence, and disappeared into the world forever...
Like many supernatural film and television dramas, "Supernatural Detective Files" does not have a clear ending, Chen Zhong disappears, Li Jiawen is taken away, and the careful thinking is extremely frightening, which also leaves suspense for the series.
The drama is mainly supernatural, supplemented by solving cases, so solving cases seems very simple and does not burn the brain at all. As for the supernatural part, it is the main attraction of the show. There are many horrors in the play, such as the "human head opens its eyes" at the beginning, and then the ghost hand is extended in the toilet toilet, which gives people a naked sensory impact. Chen Zhong's young daughter and Li Jiawen were also "taken away" and people were afraid...
II. "Supernatural Detective Files 2"
In 2004, Hong Kong Cable TV released a second part, which was replaced by Wong Il-wah due to the return of the lead actor Tao Tai-woo to wireless, while Leung Wing Chung and Lee Shan Shan-shan still played the original roles.
The horror index of "Psychic Detective Files 2" has been upgraded, such as paper-piercing people killing, skinning and plastic surgery, and four people with the west curse, which are all frightening and chilling. Of course, there are also many loopholes in the plot of the second part, and even failed to fill the pit left by the first part.
For example, the first part of Li Jiawen was taken away, and the second part no longer gave too much, but it just gave her a two-sided personality, normal during the day and extravagant at night. In order to allow Tao Dayu and other characters to reasonably withdraw from the plot, the second part sets Ye Shenghui and Bao'er to disappear every three months after Chen Zhong disappeared...
The protagonist in the play is Gundam, played by Huang Rihua, who has a cerebellum hidden in his brain, that is to say, he originally had a twin brother (conjoined baby), who was removed from the cerebellum due to surgery when he was a child, but the cells left behind are slowly growing and dominating the brain consciousness, so he will have bad habits such as cerebellar, such as good bets.
After a series of supernatural events, Gundam discovers that he can kill people with consciousness and generate a brain wave that controls humans, leading them into another space. It turned out that his cerebellum was becoming more and more mature, and would even replace the brain, so it had to be surgically removed. However, the cerebellum is too powerful, and anyone who sees the cerebellum is scared to death.
The final outcome is that the cerebellum controls Li Jiawen to kill Gundam's normal personality, and the cerebellum personality completely dominates Gundam. Gundam and Guan Shuxun gamble their lives and lose, and commit suicide with a gun...
This ending is also a forced ending, perhaps even the screenwriter does not know how to write it again, after all, for ordinary people, gundam's other personality is too powerful, a brain wave can make people disappear...
The plot of "Supernatural Detective Files 2" is also looser than the first one, fortunately, watching this type of TV does not require a brain, just trying to be bizarre, it can make people frightened, and the show has indeed done this, so the show is still worth watching!