Troublesome Night
Director: Steve Cheng; Herman Yau; Victor Tam
Year: 1997
Rating: 6.0
Here are presented
four tales of ghosts and horror. Well, ghosts anyway. The horror part is
a little lacking, but the stories are all entertaining in a television sort
of way. A low cost production where most of the budget seems to have gone
into the sound effects. A few well-known actors are on hand. In the
first tale three guys go camping and at night they meet three girls. Ada
Choi suggests a fun game – copying tombs - in which you have to go
to a cemetery and write down the names of the dead. Not high on my list of
things I would prefer doing, especially with Ada Choi - but off they go.
Louis Koo notices though that on one of the tombstones is a picture of Ada
Choi. Ah oh !
In the second chilly tale, Christy Chung
and her husband are driving separate cars on a rainy night in HK. It is their
anniversary and they are meeting at a restaurant. They are talking to each
other on a cell phone when they are both parked out front. Then why can’t
they see one another? Whoooo !
The third tale re-introduces some of the characters of the first. A ghost
possesses one of the girls (Teresa Mak) and seems to be quite enjoying himself.
This segment seemed to exist only to show a little cleavage (of which this
site will gladly take advantage !)
The final tale takes place at the traditional Tuesday midnight movie openings.
The star and his girlfriend (Christine Ng) are on hand. As are apparently
some unwelcome creatures.
This seems to be a popular series in HK because as of last count they are
up to Troublesome Night Infinity. This has a pretty good cast if you think
about it for a low-budget horror film. Besides those mentioned there is
also Helen Law Lan, who became a regular in the series - as does Simon Lui.
Kingdom Yuen and Sunny Chan as well.
