Erotic Ghost Story
Director: Lam Nai-choi
Year: 1990
Rating: 8.0
The focus of this
very entertaining film is most definitely more on the erotic than on the
ghost aspects of the title. And erotic it is - as it is full of lush
photography and even lusher women that give off quite an electric charge
in all states of dress or undress. The film has quite a bit of nudity and
sexual situations – so don’t rent it for the little kiddies.
Three sisters who are in fact fox spirits have taken on human form – and
what human form indeed – though the only resemblance between them would not
be their large eyes! The camera spends much of the time panning down below
their necks in this film. The sisters (Amy Yip, Man Siu, Kudo Hitomi) have
to maintain a strict moral lifestyle for 36 days or they will revert to their
animal essence and lose their human soul. It doesn’t seem a lot to do – but
those foxy instincts make it very difficult, as does the handsome young scholar
who lives down the road.
One by one the sisters wander into his house and leave later with a large
smile planted on their face. They soon learn that each one has been toiling
away in the same garden – but being sisters they don’t mind. They invite the
scholar to come live with them and share him equally. This leads to pool parties,
frolicking about and fruit orgies. Some guys have all the luck.
Even when the scholar is not around the sisters find things to do as there
seems to be no taboos in the fox society regarding sisterly love.
It eventually occurs to them though that this might not exactly fall into
the definition of a strict moral lifestyle and sure enough they begin to grow
hair on their chests. Ow – the Yipster with chest hair is not a pleasant sight!
They visit the scholar to make things right only to discover that he is
not exactly what he appears. The three heads tip them off – though I always
thought that most women would love a man with three heads. One to watch football,
one to make love and one to listen to their complaints! Just kidding. The
sisters now realize that they will have to fight to the death to keep their
human soul.
This is a fun little film – that is more erotically charged and explicit
than I was expecting (that’s not a complaint!) – with some cheesy special
effects. The Yipster is in fine form – and though she continues her little
trick of never quite revealing it all – she is still quite a special effect
in her own right. There are a few sequels to this film with different actresses
I believe.
