Despite her mama forbade it, young Kay goes to South East Asia with a friend
with noone knowing but her brother Pak Wai Lun (Miu Kiu-Wai), who lets her go
only on the condition that she always wears an exorcist's medaillon they
inherited from their grandpa. However, once in South East Asia, she finds her
brother's condition no longer binding & takes the ugly medaillon off - not
a good idea in a horror movie - only to soon be bitten by thousands of
centipedes. When Pak Wai Lun visits her in hospital, he learns her condition
is as hopeless as inexplicable - & soon she dies, with centipedes emerging
from her wounds. However, for Pak Wai Lun, the mystery just starts, as he soon
has appearances of a red clad kid (just like in Don't Look Now,
actually), realizes his grandpa's madaillon has to fit in somewhere - & why
was his mum so anxious about their kids going to South East Asis. Together
with Yeuk Chee (Margaret Lee Tin-Long), a friend from his schooldays, he tries
to unravel this mystery & visits diverse exorcists & priests (including
Yeuk Chee's father - to get clues, until he is sent to priest Larong, who tells
him the truth about his grandpa - which is not necessarily what he wanted to
hear: Gramps once lived in South East Asia, in a small village, & was
happily married with a baby. However, he too had a mistress, & when he one
day is caught in bed with her by his wife, he kills his wife in desperation.
But if that wasn't enough, he also killed his mistress, rather by accident.
Then, to cover up his misdeeds, he burnt the whole village, including the
villagers, even his own child. Besides gramps, only one man escaped -
unfortunately a very powerful black magician who cursed gramps. The curse
couldn't hit gramps though because of the medaillon that wards off evil, &
so the magician's anger only grew out of proportion, being transferred to
gramps' descendants after his death. & where once the burnt down city stood
was exactly the place where Pak's sister was attacked by centipedes. Back in
the now, the avenging priest is still searching for ways to get to Pak, whonm
he can't hit directly because he now wears the medaillon, so he puts a spell on
Yeuk Chee, to take the darn thing off. However, the priest-father of Yeuk Chee
now enters a magic duel with his own possessed daughter, in which she kills him
... now it seems nothing can stop the avenging priest, who sends his army of
centipedes towards Pak's house, where Yeuk Chee seduces him & gets the
medaillon off his neck ... But the avenging priest has not taken priest Larong
into account, who fights the centipedes first with the spirits of pecking hens
(!), then attacks the avenging priest with a burning hen & finally a snake
demon ... which breaks the avenging priest's spell & ends his life. &
as Yeuk Chee is freed of the possession, she throws up several life centipedes
(she really does, no special effects of camera tricks - quite disgusting)
before leaving to a better life with Pak Wai Lun. This one has
everything you'd come to expect from an Asian horror-movie - several wild
exorcism rituals & black magic duels, some quite disgusting scenes ( with
above-meintioned centipede-scene of course being the grossest), some
pseudo-religious mumbo-jumbo & logic quite frequently thrown out of the
window. & though the movie has no artistical merits of its own, it
should be held in esteem for its relentlessness in simply delivering the goods
in an enjoyably trashy way.
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