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The Occupant
The Tenant
Hong Kong 1984
produced by Karl Maka, Dean Shek, Raymond Wong, Norman Chan (executive) for Cinema City
directed by Ronny Yu
starring Raymond Wong, Sally Yeh, Chow Yun-Fat, Mak Kit-Man, Melvin Wong, Lo Lieh, Judy Li, Wellington Fung, Kenny Ho, Yiu Yau Hung, Yam Ho, Johnny Koo, Aan Lik
written by Edward Li, music by Danny Chung
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Angie (Sally Yeh) has come to Hong Kong from Canada to study Chinese
superstition for her thesis. She soon meets up with Hansom (Raymond Wong),
a super-superstitious realtor and used car salesman who hooks her up with
an apartment that's supposed to be haunted. Interestingly though, it soon
seems it's only he who is haunted by the apartment's ghost. Still, he
can't stay away because he has fallen in love with Angie - as has cop
Valentino (Chow Yun-Fat), and the two soon start fighting over the girl
... Sally does some reading up on the house she's staying at and finds
out that a singer (Mak Kit-Man) has killed herself and her lover (Melvin
Wong) in the apartment because they were caught in some complicated love
triangle. Eventually, Angie finds herself possessed by the ghost of the
singer, and Valentino brings her to his friend, the exorcist Chan (Lo
Lieh), who tries his best to help the girl, but eventually she makes a
getaway and returns to the apartment, where the singer's story is to
repeat itself, with Angie standing in for the singer, Valentino for her
lover, and Hansom for the lover's wife (Judy Li), and now it becomes
apparent that the wife shot her husband and the singer and only made it
look like suicide. Thing is that is only revealed because Hansom, in a
state of possession, shoots both Valentino and Angie ... but fortunately,
Chan has had the good sense to exchange the bullets in Valentino's gun for
duds, so nobody gets hurt, the homicidal wife gets arrested after all, and
the haunting stops.
Rather weak horror comedy that for the most part fails to focus on its
horror and possession story in favour for Raymond Wong's rather unfunny
shenanigans, and when the horror plot finally does set in, it pretty much
lacks tension and excitement, until it culminates in a solution that's
less than special. Disappointing!
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