Hocus Pocus 人吓鬼

Released Year: 1984

Directed by 钱月笙 Chin Yue Sheng

Casted by:

林正英 Lin Zheng Ying as 声叔 Sheng

董玮 Stephen Dung as 阿贵 Gui
陈龙 Chen Lung as 阿标 Biao
刘秋生 Liu Chiu Sheng as 阿光 Guang
罗浩楷 Luo Hao Qie as 阿佳 Jia
钱月笙 Chin Yue Sheng as 潮州鬼 The ghost

Story:

Sheng is the head of a Chinese Opera group, he leads Gui, Biao & Guang to join in a village performance of Jia. They couldn't handle Jia who is very arrogant. On a night, they accidentally get a ghost and the ghost make some trick on Jia. Sheng and his team try to conquer the ghost by acting the "Bao Gong" show, and they finally got the ghost agreement to settle down the trick if they burried his bones properly.

But they got the wrong bones and Gui even mess it up. The bones actually belongs to an evil ghost who later comes and killed a lot of audience. Sheng and team has to come up with the "Zhong Kui" show to catch the ghost this time. 

L² Scored: 7.5/10

L² Comment:

A very old show, and its quite good with all the chinese opera action. The ghost part is still ok, especially the director Chin Yue Sheng acted it by himself. Not bad the storyline but it will be better if the horror part can be exaggerate more...