Lam Suet plays a partially blind man, Joey, with the mental age of a child who lives with his mother (Helen Law Lan) and his cruel Uncle Hoi (William Ho) at the family's hotel on the island of Cheung Chau. Unfortunately there has been a recent spate of 'suicides' among some of the hotel's female guests and while the police are suspicious that there may be more to it they are struggling to find suspects. Meanwhile Joey is constantly bullied by his uncle, the chief of police, who wants to buy the hotel and its land from his sister, Joey's mother.

Mark Cheng appears as the boyfriend of one of the victims who, after being accused of being the killer, returns to the island to solve his girlfriend's murder himself. He is helped, after some persuasion, by Mayse (Sophie Ngan) a reporter for a Hong Kong newspaper. She becomes concerned when a group of her fellow reporters all disappear after a visit to the island.

After a fairly nasty opening, where the latest victim is shown being knifed to death in her hotel room, the film focuses on Joey and his relationship with his mother and his uncle. It's clear that Joey knows more about what's going on than he lets on and there are things in the past of which his mother forbids him to speak. In one such incident he is beaten with chop sticks until he shuts up. He is constantly under pressure from his uncle, a particularly unpleasant character, to persuade his mother to sell up.

The acting for all three of these characters is excellent. Lam Suet is especially convincing and you never quite know whether he is as innocent as he seems. Sophie Ngan's character could really have been played by anyone as nothing much is really demanded of her. And at no time does she appear undressed, as depicted on the cover of the VCD.

While the middle sections is all fairly interesting and some of the characters are developed well the film somehow seems to go through a bit of a flat patch. It's only really in the last half hour, when the killings start again, that the film manages to develop any kind of excitement factor. Sadly though the film makers decided that ripping off 'Scream' would be a good thing. Although there is a plot device that allows this to work, you're still left thinking 'Rip Off'. It would have been far better if they'd have done something more original. In a sequence that lasts for about 5 minutes the killer stalks his victims dressed in the 'Scream' mask. There are plenty of other clichés at work too such as people wandering off on their own (easy pickings for the killer) and first person camera views accompanied by heavy breathing.

Still the film does manage to deliver an unpredictable, and rather unsettling ending, that makes the rest of the film worth watching. Not a great movie but enough to make me want to check out better examples of the genre.