The film that started off the return of these ghostly films, and that permanently cast Joey Wong Cho Yin as a Ghost is an amazing film, and well worth checking out. Sure the effects are a bit cheesy by todays standards, and the creatures look like rejects from early Peter Jackson films, but with this much action, romance and fun, how can you go wrong? And even the Taoist raps are fun! Really an alltime classic, and the new DVD box set is fantastic a must purchase!

REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS…

Leslie Cheung Kwok Wing plays hapless scholar Ning Tsai Shen who is sent out collecting money for a store in his hometown, and when his records are ruined ends up staying in the haunted Orchid Temple. He ends up becoming enchanted by an apparition that comes to him, Nieh Hsiao Tsing (Joey Wong Cho Yin) a ghost whose remains are buried under and old evil tree, so she is forced to seduce and kills mortals for the evil spirit, and she is to be married off to an evil demon soon. A Taoist priest Yin (Wo Ma) fills Ning in that Hsiao Tsing is a ghost, but Ning won’t leave her alone because he loves her. So he and Yin must fight the tree spirit, Old Evil (Lau Siu Ming) and find Hsiao Tsing’s remains and burry them someplace else so she can be re-incarnated and be able to stop killing people for the demon.

The action is awesome, and the film is fun and silly with the priest singing and dancing and throwing around spells, as well as zombies coming out and Ning missing them at every turn.

It is too bad Hong Kong audiences would laugh this out of the theater now because this was Hong Kong at it’s best. So much fun, there really isn’t anything else like it!