Heunggong dai 1 hung chak (1998)

User Rating:

3.7/10   

Director:

Dickson To

Writer:

Dickson To (writer)

Genre:

Drama | Horror

Cast

Gigi Lai	...	Ah Gi
Anthony Wong Chau-Sang	...	Ah Gi's Husband
Sheung Yee Lam	...	Ah Gi's Sister
Lan Law	...	Ah Gi's Mother
Spencer Lam	...	The Professor

Also Known As:

Haunted Mansion (Hong Kong: English title)
Xianggang di 1 xiong zhai (Hong Kong: Mandarin title)

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

Hong Kong

Language:

Cantonese

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Singapore:M18

There are better ways to spend your time

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Anthony Wong, one of my favorite Hong Kong actors. Here he plays the husband of a woman who returns home to be with her mother and sister in a house where weird things are going on. There spirits floating about and the house is full of bad feng shui because of where and how its built (Its "on the border between heaven and hell" and two pillars"are like "coffin nails"). Once there the spooks start to move things, an exorcist is brought in, ritual is performed and things get even weirder as people turn out to have other spirits in them and are not who they say they are. Simply put its a mess. A half hour in and I had no idea what the heck I was watching. Wong seems to be sleep walking through his role as a man who wants to just make love to his wife and "excrete", not relieve himself, or download or another word for going to the bathroom, but excrete (It may have been the subtitles but even I doubt it). When in the end he wakes up confused about who he is and what was going on I found myself sympathizing. Not worth the effort unless you collect odd ball misfires