Ghost Nursing Film Review

At times we all need a friend. A protector, a good luck charm to be there. If so, you may want to try adopting a ghost baby, termed ghost nursing. Ones that died at birth. And need a mom. According to the producer/ actor/ choreographer of this film Billy Chan, when he went for film shoots in Thailand, he heard from working girls that many of them had adopted a baby ghost to change their luck and look over them. I have to admit that in my time here, I have not come across that but there are all sorts of ghosts that Thai people believe in.

At any rate, Chan and his friend Norman Tsui thought this was a great idea for a film and put the money up to produce it and got Wilson Tong (Ghost Ballroom, Musical Vampire, Ghostly Bus) to direct it and off to Thailand they went. It is definitely low budget, but chock full of fun, the supernatural, gore and stunts. The last thirty minutes is a wild ride. With an unexpected ending.

Jackie (TVB star Suet Lee) is a working girl in Hong Kong with a gambling problem and a large debt to a loan shark. So she skips town and goes to stay with her friend Ling in Bangkok. Ling works in a hostess bar and Jackie joins her. Chat with the customers and leave for "midnight snacks". Brother Bing (Tong Tin-hei) takes a liking to her and kills another man who has reserved her. Bad luck follows her like a stalker. Ling tells her, you just need to adopt a ghost. Easy fix. Off to the local neighborhood black magic sorcerer they go and after a lot of weird shit, he matches her with a baby ghost. Little cutie. Tickle tickle. She sets a place at the dinner table for it.

But there are certain rules to follow to take care of it which are a bit elaborate but no more than taking care of a spoiled pet. And what do you know, a man who aggressively flirts with her falls on a banana peel and dies and another man who shows interest chokes on a mouth full of worms. Go baby ghost! Brother Bing doesn't do much better. But when she misses one of the rules, it all goes to hell. She has gotten together with Tsui who is a really nice guy. But when he realizes that she has this ghost baby he brings his paranormal friend Melvin Wong to get rid of it. With Christianity. Big mistake. Buddhism vs Christianity is no match. The ghost possesses Tsui and it gets crazy and monstrous. And so much fun. Jackie brings in a Taoist priest (Billy Chan) and now we have a fair fight. Great to come across this fairly obscure Hong Kong film in a good quality video and finding it to be an early well-done Cantonese horror film. It gets brutal between Tsui and Suet Lee, but while off camera they fell in love and got married. So, a happy ending after all.