Gwai pin wong: Joi yin hung bong

The old horror favorite, a school with six students. The excuse this time is that its a boarding school, in the holidays and the remaining students are all orphans. Sounds bad? It gets worse. Simon Loui shows up as a 30 year old student too afraid to graduate. To his credit he does his best with what he has been given, but its a bit rubbish really. A new student turns up and things to get strange and people die. Michael Wong wanders in and out as a policeman not understanding anything. His voice has been dubbed and strangely even copies the parts where he breaks into English because he has forgotten his Cantonese lines instead of dubbing it all in Cantonese. I can appreciate cheap horror but this is worthless.

The action takes places at boarding school, where in the summer the teenagers who have no parents or family to go home to stay and idle around waiting for the start of term.

Soon enough, one by one they start to disappear under bizarre circumstances which leads everyone to belive that they committed suicide.

But the student's left know that something un-natural is happening, and where-ever they go no-one seems to want to help them, so they are going to have to join together and help themselves.

The live in teacher seems to be losing the plot as well, she cooks up a small poodle for the students tea and wanders around seeing spirits.

Throw into this a new girl that they are suspicious of and you got yourself one hell of a strange HK film. One that you will have to see a couple of times before you truly "get" what was going on, but well worth a look

This film is watchable, but you really need to pay attention. Some of the characters are there for no discernible reason and you're often not sure what's going on. Overall, though, you have a pretty good idea of the plot and storyline.

The FX are all practical and fairly decent.

As usual, the subtitles (which are in both Chinese and English and therefore somewhat crowded) are almost as funny as the movie itself. As with many HK movies, some of the dialogue is (inexplicably) in heavily-accented English. An actor will be cruising along in Chinese and then deliver one line in English. Then it's back to Chinese. I have no idea why they do this, since the lines are all being delivered to the same person and there's no reason for them to be in English.

All in all, only for true fans of HK horror.