1/2/2024 0 Comments Paranormal hk ending explainedKara Hui is a single mother to an albino boy whose tragic past is linked to the apartment which Chin moves into. Chung Fat is a local temple priest who happens to be dabbling in the backroom of his apartment in the dark arts. Nina Paw and Richard Ng are a devoted couple whose bond of love is tested when one of them meets with an accident and winds up dead. Besides Uncle Yau, Chin also gains the attention of the other mostly elderly tenants of the complex played by equally venerable veterans of Hong Kong cinema. That act of despair introduces him to Uncle Yau (Anthony Chan Yau, erstwhile drummer of the 1970s band The Wynners as well as Chin's supporting star from 'Mr Vampire'), a veteran Taoist vampire hunter who now runs his own food stall around the neighbourhood. Vampire aficionados will immediately recognise lead actor Chin Siu-ho from the opening scene, one of the last surviving alum of the classic 1985 'Mr Vampire' series (Mak dedicates the film to the two other deceased members, Lam Ching Ying and Ricky Hui) who plays himself as a washed-up movie star who moves into a dilapidated tenement building to commit suicide. A visually stunning homage to the 1980s heydays of Hong Kong cinema when the vampire genre was very much alive (mostly in the form of the "hopping vampire" horror comedies), it proves itself to be so much more than a feast for genre fans, packing a surprisingly amount of emotional depth and establishing itself as a refreshingly different kind of meta- cinema. ![]() ![]() That is precisely why his directorial debut 'Rigor Mortis' will take you by surprise. You probably wouldn't figure pop star turned actor Juno Mak for a serious filmmaker after all, the singer cum fashionista is best known for being one of Gillian Chung's ex-boyfriends.
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