Yam yeung lo 15: Hak si wan loi

Eric Tsang lends his star power to this fifteenth installment, but does little to improve it. In his past life, he betrayed his village to the invading Japanese, and after killing a man's wife and child in front of him, the man cursed him and all his generations. Now that man hangs out as an evil ghost, waiting for the best opportunity to kill Tsang's son, just returned from London. His son is a complete ass and I waited eagerly for the ghost to kill him. Alas, he just kept filling more and more screen time until not even a thousand deaths could compensate the viewer. The usual supporting cast is back too, of course, led by the always welcome Helena Law-Lan.

The first of this continuation series of Troublesome Night was released some 5 years ago and it's an average of 3 series a year. Although there ain't any continuation sequel of all its series but without us knowing clear the period of time, we are now into installment no. 15. However

the first few series we were treated with loads and loads of stuffs full of suspenses and an unusual twist of the story line as in a mixture of ghoulish movies combined with The X-Files. I really had the itch each time awaiting for its next sequel to be released. However it seems that the producers and directors seemed to have lost their ideas of how the genre of a Troublesome Night movie should be made.

The story of this movie is about a caring father protecting his son from being harm by a revenging spirit from a previous life. The father who has the ability to see and speak to ghosts and spirits, be-friends the ghoulish ones and uses their help as guardian (angels) ghosts for his one and only son who I find him really a jerk. The story is corny as ever and by mid way of the show, we would have guess how the ending would be. Even with the presence of veteran comedian, Eric Tsang who helm the role as the serious father, we find him unable to save the grace of the whole movie.

My advice to all who has been following the continuation sequel of this title to give this one a miss, that is if you are serious horror movie buff. If the producers are still making similar stuffs like this in the next installment then I will definitely give No. 17 a No-No!

Number 15 of the Troublesome Night movies is a tad better than the last few entries. Veteran Hong Kong actor Eric Tsang stars as Ngau, a cook in the Hong Kong countryside who is trying to save his son from a vengeful ghost who was wronged years ago by Ngau's past life.

The usual cast from the last few previous sequels return once more and acted more annoying than contributing to the plot, but Law Law's appearance is a breath of fresh air. The plot seemed to be more visible this time around, as I thought the past life plot device was quite unique and intriguing and was emphasized quite a bit throughout the movie.

While Eric Tsang and Lan Law were a welcome presence to the movie, the rest of the characters weren't memorable and didn't do much to make the movie a better viewing experience. It's just a lot of mesh, attempted comedy and cliché stuff. Still, though, better than the last few terrible entries in the series.

Grade C-