1987 ‘倩女幽魂1’ Directed by Tony Ching Siu-Tung
Ning Tsai-Shen, a humble tax collector, arrives in a small town to carry out his work. No one is willing to give him shelter for the night, so he ends up in the haunted Lan Ro temple. There, he meets Taoist Swordsman Yen Che-Hsia, and the beautiful Nieh Hsiao-Tsing, with whom he falls in love.
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Really dug this overall - its romance is lovely and the horror/fantasy is well-balanced - but what put it over the edge were the zombie skeletons. What a treat.
Damn this was good. A hopelessly romantic love story, an absolutely bonkers Evil Dead-inspired horror movie, a badass wuxia pian and a wacky Hong Kong comedy all rolled into one, and somehow none of them feel out of place. Wu Ma does a rap musical number in the middle of the movie.
Love is.. fighting a giant tongue-monster to save your undead crush from impending doom. 👅💥🤛🏻👻♥️
A Chinese Ghost Story was so much better than I expected it to be, and it was a lot funnier too! It is rightfully a cult classic.
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Well, A Chinese Ghost Story is horror, comedy, and Kung Fu having a threesome.
DuBFaL Film Nr.15 - A Chinese Ghost Story Kategorie: Horrorfilm vor 2010 Vorgabe & Auswahl: Milos Vorschlag: Jonathan
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Jede Suche geht mit ihrem Ursprung einher: dem Verlieren.
Wo andere von uns ihren Teddybären aus der Kindheit in dem Gerümpel des elterlichen Kellers suchen; ebensolchen aus der Kindheit entsprungenen Fotos in Schachteln bis zur Decke reichend; ein Buch oder wie ich eine Kurzgeschichtensammlung von Stephen King mit dem einem Anker eines von einem Schlangenbiss in eine Lähmung versetzten Patienten im vollen Bewusstsein seiner Autopsie; ebenso der Grund dieser Review: meiner Suche nach einem Film, einem ganz besonderen Film.
Besagter Film ist ein wohl völlig verklärtes Vehikel meiner Erinnerung in…
A fantastic mix of horror, comedy and romance! What A Chinese Ghost Story lacks in coherence, it more than makes up for with imagination and verve! The film begins with an atmospheric sequence in a haunted house, before moving onto a slapstick sword fight scene and that really sums the whole thing up. The tonal shifts are jarring at first, but it soon slips into a sort of manic rhythm and at that point it's best to just sit back and enjoy! The special effects are absolutely great and very well used. The sequence with the massive tongue is the major highlight. The characters are actually well done too, and the central romance is really quite sweet. The film never…
Really just A Touch of Zen but done in the style of The Evil Dead. Which makes sense, given that both it and the King Hu movie are based on stories from the Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio collection. Tsui Hark and Ching Siu-tung's idolization of King Hu would become more apparent with the Swordsman movies, designed as a comeback vehicle for Hu as a director. Of course, Tsui Hark being Tsui Hark, and King Hu being King Hu, that collaboration lasted only a couple of weeks before Hu quit.
But Tsui and Ching are weirdly enough a perfect collaborative match, Ching's hyperactive approach to action, more or less just running a King Hu sequence on fast-forward, such that…
The closest thing to House I've ever seen and I almost think I like it more. Going in blind, I expected something more martial arts based, but when the zombies showed up, I realized I had no idea what I got into.
Pretty fun and campy, I can definitely see the appeal in this film.
Do I dare make a joke about death and taxes....
What makes Wuxia better, supernatural, romantic WUXIA!!!!!!!!!!!
And this one includes a musical number ("Dao of Dao"), which includes a line about fornicating dogs.
Now i wanted something a little light as I'm off to the ICA later for a couple of Japanese films and I didn;t fancy jumping into the Second Run Wajda war Trilogy just yet.
With a better cellar and scarier garden than Ash's holiday cabin, also battered by a harder demonic wind as well, this is so much fun. A wonderfully fun and playful film, with some amazing cinematography, and the model work/special effects are fantastic espically the devouring scenes.
I like the good natured heart…
Um wow this was—something else. Very mystical with a touch of well placed humor. This was actually pretty fucking awesome haha. I’m sure it’s a classic in china and by every right it should be. I found myself getting slowly pulled into the otherworldly story while the magical yet very loud score soothed me away.
The obvious points of comparison here are King Hu and most especially The Evil Dead, yet for all the deranged wire-fu horror comedy, the film's progression less as a coherent plot than as a series of blatantly romantic images (billowing fabrics, stolen kisses, etc.) recalls the '80s work of Leos Carax. It's maximalist distillation, grandiose and emotionally volatile but ultimate a collection of almost context-less bursts of whimsy, longing, creature-feature shlock, and tenderness. It has no business hanging together as well as it does, but it works, and you can see in Tsui's goofy script the seeds of the loopy satire embedded in Green Snake.
More romantic comedies should have a scene in which a kung-fu wizard fights a giant tongue. Pure cinematic magic!
