Supernatural movies, featuring ghosts, “Geung si” and other entities are an important part of Hong Kong Cinema and its cultural heritage. “Encounters of the Spooky Kind” (1980), “Mr Vampire” (1985), “Rouge” (1987), “A Chinese Ghost Story” (1990) are only some of my favorite unmissable ones from the 80’s and 90’s.
Genre-bending movies, often blending horror, comedy, romance and kung fu, they are now an endangered species. After Hong Kong’s handover in 1997, many local filmmakers started making co-productions with the Mainland, where the supernatural films are considered a forbidden subject; therefore, they simply don’t get made anymore, except for some rare and brave case. In fact, those kinds of films have turned into a sort of statement by filmmakers that are committed to making Cantonese language films for distribution in Hong Kong and outside, but not the Mainland.
Some of the post-1997 local horror movies include the charming “My Left Eye Sees Ghosts...
Genre-bending movies, often blending horror, comedy, romance and kung fu, they are now an endangered species. After Hong Kong’s handover in 1997, many local filmmakers started making co-productions with the Mainland, where the supernatural films are considered a forbidden subject; therefore, they simply don’t get made anymore, except for some rare and brave case. In fact, those kinds of films have turned into a sort of statement by filmmakers that are committed to making Cantonese language films for distribution in Hong Kong and outside, but not the Mainland.
Some of the post-1997 local horror movies include the charming “My Left Eye Sees Ghosts...
- 5/10/2019
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
In what may be an early contender for title of the year in Hong Kong, Vampire Cleanup Department, the first feature by directors Yan Pak-wing (who wrote Full Strike) and Chiu Sin-hang, brings back the hopping vampires. Essentially a supernatural romance, Vcd is modest in its ambitions and gleeful in execution, and knows exactly what it is. The film shamelessly trades in nostalgia for both the singularly Chinese creature and the goofy horror comedies Hong Kong pumped out in the 1980s and early ’90s. Having already secured a slot on the Fantasia schedule, other genre festivals are sure to follow suit.
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- 3/12/2017
- by Elizabeth Kerr
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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