Basically this is a spin-off from the original movie with a cast full of totally famous big names of Hong Kong. Unlike the first movie, this has a lot of humour added to it... so it's more of a light-hearted movie than the first one. This humour, in my humble opinion, has deemed this movie ... Read review
Basically this is a spin-off from the original movie with a cast full of totally famous big names of Hong Kong. Unlike the first movie, this has a lot of humour added to it... so it's more of a light-hearted movie than the first one. This humour, in my humble opinion, has deemed this movie a failure.
The first movie was a classic and since it was a love story, had a serious feel to it. This one, Chinese Ghost Story Number 2, is funny, ... ...said that, this movie has a lot more action and has a lot more magicainary in it. Like you can freeze someone if you paint a sign on your hand and aim it at the person you want to freeze and shout "Freeze!". Funny. Funny in the way that you have to watch it to understand.
Following from the first movie, the girl ghost has reincarnated and does not have any consciousness of the lover of her previous life. Leslie, her old lover, ... more
Basically this is a spin-off from the original movie with a cast full of totally famous big names of Hong Kong. Unlike the first movie, this has a lot of humour added to it... so it's more of a light-hearted movie than the first one. This humour, in my humble opinion, has deemed this movie a failure.
The first movie was a classic and since it was a love story, had a serious feel to it. This one, Chinese Ghost Story Number 2, is funny, but sometimes funny at the wrong times... which makes it feel like it's taking the mick.
Having said that, this movie has a lot more action and has a lot more magicainary in it. Like you can freeze someone if you paint a sign on your hand and aim it at the person you want to freeze and shout "Freeze!". Funny. Funny in the way that you have to watch it to understand.
Following from the first movie, the girl ghost has reincarnated and does not have any consciousness of the lover of her previous life. Leslie, her old lover, DOES remember her and is distraught that she doesn't remember him. Does she find out who he is? Does she fall in love with him again? What about her younger sister... ?
Advantages: Builds on everything great about the 1st movie.. and then some Disadvantages: Again like the 1st movie, cultural/historical significance may not be apparent to all
come as no surprise that barely a year later, a sequel would be released.
This movie had great potential for major disappointment. After all, the HK movie industry is notorious for churning out movies in quantity rather than quality. Don't get me wrong, there are MANY great movies to have come from HK.. but for every great movie, there are probably 20 terrible ones too. But if there was anyone made for the job.. then it's Tsui Hark. For those not well versed in HK cinema, Tsui Hark is the man behind a disturbingly large number of the aforementioned 1 in 20 great movies. As well as directing, co-writing and producing the OUATIC series, he has also been responsible for such HK classics like "Iron Monkey", the "ChineseGhostStory" series and "The Killer" to name but a few.
Earlier, I said that OUATIC2 bears all the hallmarks ...
Production Year: 1983 - Horror - Director: Richard Fleischer - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Robert Joy, Candy Clark, John Beal, John Harkins, Meg Ryan, Tony Roberts, Tess Harper
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