Rigor Mortis (2014)
About this film
Rigor Mortis is a 2013 Hong Kong action horror film directed by Juno Mak and produced by Takashi Shimizu . The film is a tribute to the Mr. Vampire film series. Many of the former cast are featured in this film: Chin Siu-ho , Anthony Chan , Billy Lau and Richard Ng . Additionally, Chung Fat, who starred in Encounters of the Spooky Kind , is also featured. [ 3 ] Plot Actor Chin Siu-ho , former star of Mr. Vampire , is suicidal after his wife and young son leave him. He moves into a dilapidated apartment building [ 1 ] and hangs himself. His struggles draw the attention of twin girl ghosts who haunt the apartment, and they possess his body. Yau, a neighbor, bursts into the room, cuts the noose, and drives the spirits from Chin's body. Later, Chin visits Yau's restaurant, and Yau explains that his family are jiangshi (vampire)-hunters, but he has grown weary and taken up cooking glutinous rice which is used against vampires. [ 4 ] Elsewhere in the apartment building, an elderly man named Uncle Tung falls down a stairwell and dies. His wife Meiyi asks Gau, a black magician living in the building, to resurrect Tung. [ 4 ] Gau performs a ritual on the disfigured corpse and explains that…
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ScaryHoppingVampire