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On vacation in Thailand with friends (Cheung Ho Lung, Kwai Chung, Kau
Man-Lung), Bud Gay (Tong Ka Fai) has a boating accident and nearly drowns,
but is saved by Thai girl May (Zoie Tam), who also gives him a pendant but
then disappears. Back in Hong Kong, May shows up again to scare the
living shit out of Ho (Yu Ka-Ho), a friend of Bud Gay, but somehow is
warded off by his Buddhist pendant - in a word, May is a ghost, and she
obviously travelled to Hong Kong in the pendant she gave to Bud Guy. In
panic, Ho contacts Bud Gay's mother Mrs Bud (Law Lan), a renowned
exorcist, and he confesses to her that May and her brother Lik (Ken Wong) took
him hostage when he was living back in Thailand, and he killed May by
mistake, but purely to escape. Mrs Bud soon tracks down May and questions
her, but she claims he killed her when trying to rape her. Now she wants
revenge, apparently ... Now it's statement against statement, and to
determine the truth and have justice be done, she forces Ho to give up his
Buddhist pendant, then allows May to go after him only if she promises not
to kill him. Having sneaked into Ho's car, May feels tempted to do just
that, but when she sees him overcome by guilt and fear, she decides to
leave him alone - but in his condition it doesn't take long for Ho to
crash into the next truck and die in the accident. It's only then that
May's ghost can pass on from this world to the next peacefully. What
is supposed to be a horror comedy is messed up primarily by its atrocious
narrative structure: The first half of the movie is wasted on a travelogue
picturing the beauties of Thailand - and apart from the fact that it does
little to move the plot along, it's not even well-done, and the central
piece of this part of the story, Bud Gay's boating accident and rescue, is
treated marginally at best. But even when the plot as such finally sets
in, there is little in terms of scares, tension or suspense to keep the
viewers at the edge of their seats. And as for the comedy aspects of the
film - none of it is even remotely funny.
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