#A chinese ghost story movie#
Creepy Centipedes: The Big Bad of the second movie appears to be an incredibly powerful buddhist monk, but is actually a gigantic centipede demon masquerading as a holy man.Covered in Gunge: In the first movie, Ning and Yin facing the tree demon's tongue."Move your eyes up-down for 'yes' and left-right for 'no'." (Ning draws attention towards the demon) "What the hell is 'diagonal' mean?!" Ning promptly turns it on the priest, then himself, and the very demon they were preparing to face as it's hovering over them. Can Only Move the Eyes: In the second movie, the young Kunlun priest gives Ning a special symbol that can freeze anyone and anything.Brown Note: Buddhist chanting in the second movie - actually coming from aforementioned demonic centipede.Body of Bodies: In a variation, the evil demon at the end of the first film has a torso entirely composed of screaming human faces.Bittersweet Ending: The first film our hero frees his ghostly lover, but she is apparently reincarnated somewhere else.Boy Meets Ghoul: Ning is a human scholar who, after being forced to spend a night in a derelict temple, ends up falling for it's resident ghost girl, Nie.Battle Cry: Altogether, guys: PAO YE PAO LO MI !!!.Well, actually you better not rub off any monks or priests in the wrong way there - if you're lucky, they'll just kick your ass and not turn out to be huge demonic centipede in disguise. Badass Preacher: Yin's a monk, and so are several other characters.Badass Bureaucrat: Ning, although most of the time it tends to be Badass Unintentional or Mistaken for Badass.Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: in the second film, we get a centipede.An Axe to Grind: There's a demon in the first film, who wields, like, four axes.It lasts for an entire minute and is never brought up for the rest of the film. Anachronistic Soundtrack: Part of Yin's introduction have him breaking out in a rap number, with an anachronistic jazz soundtrack blaring in the background.
#A chinese ghost story free#
But Ning manages to fall in love with her in the meanwhile, and decides to free her, and to do this enlists the help of Yin, a Taoist priest and wizard and all-round badass. It turns out Nie is actually a spirit, enslaved by a Tree Demon who forces her ghosts to kill men. However, when he later recalls last night's events the next day, he becomes increasingly fearful and superstitious. That night in the temple, Ning meets a beautiful and alluring young maiden called Nie. His job requires him to travel to rural areas, and this way he arrives at a certain town, but he's broke, so he is forced to seek shelter in a deserted temple in the forest on the outskirts. Ning, played by Leslie Cheung, is a timid tax collector living somewhere in Imperial China. It's an adaption of the 1960 Shaw Brothers classic, The Enchanting Shadow, which was based on Qing dynasty writer Pu Songling's Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio.
#A chinese ghost story series#
A Hong Kong fantasy-horror-comedy film series by Tsui Hark.