
In the past couple weeks I and my Hubby have watched some really
crazy movies. A shame I didn't start writing about them earlier.
Today I'd like to start and share you the Hong Kong film that's called "
Encounters of Spooky kind" (or just "Spooky Encounters" in USA release) directed by Sammo Hung who also plays the main role of Courageous Cheung in the film.
Courageous Cheung is a not-too-witty fat pedicab driver whose wife cheats on him with Master Tam - the local official who plots to get rig of Cheung by hiring a magician. However the main character is called Courageous for a good reason.
The movie starts when we see his friends trying to make fun on him by telling a ghost story and later on pretending they're evil spirits. However when some of them get abducted we find out that there ARE ghosts and they're far from friendly.

Later on Cheung gets himself into more troubles. The most fascinating moment was when he fights a jumping corpse controlled by the above mentioned magician. The scene brought tears to my eyes as I LOLed watching that hopping thing with its hands stretched in front of it. Later on I discovered that this was one of the first depictions of
Jiang Shi - a traditional chinese hopping reanimated corpse (sometimes called "Chinese vampire" although it looks more like a zombie to me). I made this sample movie so that you could see how it looks like:
This movie is full of hilarious moments that make you laugh like when we meet a local police inspector who has well his own concerns about dead men or when Cheung's hand gets possessed and tries to kill him or in the end when he allows a Monkey god to possess him so that he can defeat one of his enemies (also possessed by another spirit).
Yep this film is crazy crazy crazy like hell. It's a pity I don't know much about modern Chinese culture because I'm sure there should be some things I didn't understand which a normal Chinese guy would. But that's a problem of watching almost any foreign movie I guess. Oh and the ending is fine too. I won't tell you in case you'd like to watch this film. It's just about what happens to wives who not only cheat on their husbands but also plot to kill them.

Encounters of Spooky kind