This was the first entry for a popular Hong Kong series of mildly spooky stories, similar and compared to the "Mr. Vampire" HK movies, or the US television series, "Tales Of The Crypt" (1989). Where it departs from the US series however, is through persistent use of certain actors and actresses in it's loosely related stories. The various titles that IMDb seems to have related to this, "Yam Yeung Lo, Yin Yang Lu, Aau Yeung Liu" et cetera, are all exactly the same thing in Chinese; describing the "Road Between Living & Dead." The different pronunciations were probably a result of various dialectic differences in phonetics. The first few entries had several tales within a movie, while the later entries were single stories that were movie length. The VCDs sold generally have dual Mandarin & Cantonese tracks, along with both Chinese (Traditional) and Semi-English subtitles.
The entire franchise is held together by a web of byzantine Chinese beliefs, suppositions about the supernatural and general Asian superstitions; and the results should one violate long standing "rules" pertaining to Chinese spiritualism, ancestral worship, and the occult.
This first installment of the franchise consisted of four different vignettes; (#1) a bunch of teens on a late night beach outing, (#2) wife of a cheating husband on their wedding anniversary, (#3) a young girl is seduced by a ghost, and (#4) a HK movie star at the premiere of his latest film in a haunted theatre. As a series start, this entry certainly doesn't set off any fireworks, but is fair in it's presentation of the myriad of beliefs of the Chinese supernatural. 5/10 rating.
The entire franchise is held together by a web of byzantine Chinese beliefs, suppositions about the supernatural and general Asian superstitions; and the results should one violate long standing "rules" pertaining to Chinese spiritualism, ancestral worship, and the occult.
This first installment of the franchise consisted of four different vignettes; (#1) a bunch of teens on a late night beach outing, (#2) wife of a cheating husband on their wedding anniversary, (#3) a young girl is seduced by a ghost, and (#4) a HK movie star at the premiere of his latest film in a haunted theatre. As a series start, this entry certainly doesn't set off any fireworks, but is fair in it's presentation of the myriad of beliefs of the Chinese supernatural. 5/10 rating.