| Standard ghost revenge fare that just didn't work. The humor wandered through the movie like a hippopotamus and breaks the flow of the movie. The pacing in the movie lurches about from horror story to comedy to drama and back and forth with little or no warning to the audience, giving the movie an uneven feel to it. It has some interesting ideas about the world of ghosts, but they weren't exactly well thought out and left the audience wondering. The ghosts will be especially out of place to inexperienced western audiences.
I was expecting the horror fare that Shaw released in the later 70s, full of gore, ooze, and craziness. This has no gore--the ghost kills by choking her victims to death or setting little puppets of them on fire; no ooze--for a ghost she is amazingly solid; and no craziness. All in all it's more like a Hammer horror movie than a Shaw horror movie, but with pacing problems. Could have been better, probably should have been better. |
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