A Wicked Ghost
This horror flick comes to us from Hong Kong. The movie tells the story of a group of young adults who through a seance unleash an evil spirit. One by one’s the friends start to die under mysterious circumstances, save for a young man named Ming. Together with his drama teacher Mr. Mo, Ming attempts to figure out what’s going on before more people die.
REVIEW: Well…this movie was kind of a movie. The story, while borrowing some from The Ring, was original enough to keep me moderately interested. It was definately worth the $1 my friend paid for it when he went to Hong Kong and bought crazy VCDs. Anyhow perhaps the best thing about this movie was the names of the characters. Among the victims of the wicked ghost we had: Biggie, Big B, Rubbish, Annie, Cissy, and then there’s Jack. Additionally the horrible subtitles were reason enough to watch (”Last night I’m making the nightmare.”) There was a good impalement through a mouth also. However the ending….(beware I’m going to give away the little bit of an ending there is here).
Pretty much the movie ends with Ming (the main character) dead and or hospitalized (the subtitles said he was in the hospital, but I don’t speak Madarin or Cantonese so I don’t know), and Mr. Mo, Cissy, and Jack in a room with the ghost who’s getting ready to get some killing going on…Roll Credits! My friend said he thought that by that point the writer had just gotten bored. I’d have to agree. The movie sucked some, but inspite of the ending, or perhaps because of the ending, I’m working on downloading A Wicked Ghost 2 and 3.
STARS: *
