| Law Kar Wing jumped over to Cinema City in between his Shaw Brother's work and delivered this 1982 box-office hit. Olivia Cheng (Why Me?) tries to get married 3 times, only to quickly lose her husbands to the ghost world after various fatal accidents. One's a movie star (David Chiang), one's a gangster (Wong Ching) and the final a timid priest (Raymond Wong) but they join together in the afterlife to try and pair up a radio play actor (Alan Tam) with the cursed widow...
Mostly hilarious slapstick ensues and director Law Kar Wing keeps a wonderful frantic pace to his silliness, culminating in a fun finale during the Ghost Festival, all set in a papier mache surrounding (sacrifices and gifts to the spirits are manufactured in this way and burned, hence this scenario). It's a Hong Kong comedy style recognizable from lots of other movies, only delivered with better sense of fun and this comedy also has another selling point. Namely talent imported from America in the form of make-up artist Tom Savini who gets the chance to create some wild sights that enters into both scary and entertaining territory. Also starring Eric Tsang. |
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