The CGI may be advanced for China, but it’s nothing that you won’t see in the third-rate American horror flicks that litter our multiplexes. However, director Yip Wai-Man too often indulges in special effects that are self-consciously cool rather than scary, as when Meng sees her reflection in a mirror burning into a pile of embers. The film is beautiful when it’s evoking the glitz of the movie industry in a bygone era, and older Chinese viewers who are nostalgic for the time period will undoubtedly find this to be a nice trip. He’s forced to take the claims seriously on the first day of shooting, when his male lead (Wu Xu Dong) ruins a take by spontaneously combusting in front of everybody. He snags gorgeous upcoming ingenue Meng Si-Fan (Ruby Lin, who is no relation to me) as the lead actress and plans to shoot the movie in an abandoned theater, despite people claiming that the place is haunted. Set in 1930s Shanghai, the film stars Tony Yang as Gu Weibang, a young man who has returned from studying filmmaking in France to make a horror film in his native country. What I know is that the latest of these, Phantom of the Theatre, only extends the losing streak as it expands to North Texas this week. Find release information for A Chinese Ghost Story (1987) - Siu-Tung Ching on AllMovie.

REGIE WILSON YIP DARSTELLER LOUIS KOO / YIFEI LIU / SHAOQUN YU / KARA HUI / ELVIS TSUI / LOUIS FAN / WANG DANYI LI.

12, Movie-Mania 2012 CHINA/HONGKONG 2011 / 100 MIN / 35 MM / KANTONESISCHE/MANDARIN OMEU. The film is adapted from the short story Nie Xiaoqian in Pu Songling's Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, a collection of supernatural stories set in ancient China. FFF Movie Mania 2012 (20): A Chinese Ghost Story Themen: Fantasy Filmf. I’m not sure whether censorship is the reason for this or whether there’s some other factor at work. A Chinese Ghost Story, also known as A Chinese Fairy Tale, is a 2011 fantasy-supernatural film directed by Wilson Yip, starring Louis Koo, Liu Yifei, Yu Shaoqun, Kara Hui, Louis Fan, and Wang Danyi Li. Yet they aren’t truly scary the way that films from Japan or even Thailand and the Philippines have been. Chinese movies are full of ghosts and witches and magical beings. By now I’ve seen horror films worth taking seriously from many different corners of eastern Asia, but mainland China is a notable exception.

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