Sun faa sau si (1998)

A group of young shoppers and employees must band together when a zombie outbreak over runs their Hong Kong shopping center in the middle of the shopping day.

Director:

Wilson Yip

Writers:

Matt Chow, Siu Man Sing,

Stars:

Jordan Chan, Emotion Cheung, Sam Lee

Cast

Credited cast:
Jordan Chan	...	Woody Invincible (as Siu Chun Chan)
Emotion Cheung	...	Loi (as Kam Ching Cheung)
Sam Lee	...	Crazy Bee (as Chan Sum Lee)
Yiu-Cheung Lai	...	Kui (as Yiu Cheung Lai)
Angela Tong Ying-Ying	...	Rolls (as Angela Tong)
Suk Yin Lai	...	Jelly
Tat-Wah Lok	...	Military Officer (as Tat Wah Lok)
Frankie Chan	...	Ox
Tak Chi Tam	...	Policeman #3001
Chi Chuen Chan	...	Policeman #9466
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Bob Bobson	...	VCD Nerd (voice)
Pou-Soi Cheang	...	Automobile Repairman
Francis Cherry	...	Man A (voice)
Siu-Lung Ching	...	Chan Kam-Shing
Matt Chow	...	Shing's Assistant

Storyline

Hong Kong's answer to George Romero's Dawn Of The Dead. A soft drink tainted with bio-chemicals has the power to turn people into flesh-eating zombies. A man drinks from the bottle, and wanders into the night. As two young VCD sellers (Woody Invincible and Crazy Bee) from a local mall are returning to the mall with their bosses' car, they hit the man. Unsure of what to do, they bring the man back to the mall with them. The mall closes, and soon there are zombies everywhere! A small group of mall employees must bond together to try and fight their way out.

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Plot Keywords:

mall | soft drink | zombie | news report | present | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Horror

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Details

Country:

Hong Kong

Language:

Cantonese

Release Date:

11 June 1998 (Hong Kong)

Also Known As:

Bio zombi

Company Credits

Production Co:

Brilliant Idea Group (BIG), Cameron Entertainment Ltd.

Technical Specs

Runtime:

94 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Crazy Credits

The opening credits include Sam Lee and Jordan Chan inside a theater, complaining about the movie they're bootlegging... Bio Zombie!

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Connections

Spoofs The House of the Dead (1997)

User Reviews

Don't expect horror...

Should this movie be described as a Hong Kong take on Dawn of the Dead? No. Return of the Living Dead? No, certainly not. Mallrats with zombies? Sounds better.

The point of this movie is not to provide stark raving terror, deep social commentary, or five gallons of blood per second. This movie is fun. Follow the lives of a pair of small-time punks running a VCD shop, the likable Crazy Bee and the incredibly named Woody Invincible, as they try to get their boss's car and end up accidentally unleashing a zombie plague. Oops. But even before the first zombie shows up, the duo has gotten into some amusing scrapes and got out of them with bluster that for once is not unlikable. They may be jerks, but at least their the kind of jerks you can see yourself hanging out with.

When the zombies show up, the movie stays focused on Woody and Bee. It seems so wrong to say that this movie is character driven, but it is. Not it a dramatic sense, but in the sense that the characters and not the zombies are the main focus of the movie. That surprisingly doesn't hurt the film, as the interactions are definetly between our heroic duo and the zombies are generally amusing.

But the movie knows when to get serious. The last ten minutes or so switch from humor to seriousness (save one speech from Bee) suddenly and yet without missing a step. The last ten minutes seem to come from a "real" zombie movie and are filled with emotion and pathos. It's kind of startling, but it also fits.

All in all, I definetly recommend this movie. It is one of my favorites. Just go in expecting humor. Heck, it's best to go into the movie not knowing anything about it.