Stealing the Beauty's Corpse at Night
Stealing the Beauty's Corpse at Night
Overview
It is a simple story with a deep meaning. When the beautiful chanteuse Hung (Law Yim-hing) is forced to marry Commander Lau (Lau Hark-suen), her brother (Cheng Wai-sum) interferes but is brutally beaten to death. Hung also falls to her death when she tries to escape. The siblings are only hastily buried in a coffin home, which is haunted soon afterwards. Hung's lover Wong (Wong Chiu-mo) later sneaks into the haunted house hoping to see her for one last time; Lau, meanwhile, insists on inspecting the coffin home and the corpses to prove that ghosts do not exist…The film creates an eerie and uncanny atmosphere with its well-designed camera angles, sound and editing. The haunting looks of the two ghost characters are a nod to Hong Kong's typically told horror stories.
Similar
The Mohican (2025)
Startime: The Turn of the Screw (1959)
What Remains (2022)
Till Death Do Us Part (2008)
Evil Never Dies (2003)
Riki-Oh: The Wall of Hell (1989)
The Scapegoat (1963)
Sinister 2 (2015)
Les Gloutonnes (1974)
The Accused (1949)
Sugar Cookies (1973)
The Haunted Palace (1963)
I Confess (1953)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
Cruel Train (1995)
Heartless (1997)
Stone Cold Dead (1979)
Haunts (1976)
House by the River (1950)
Mother (2009)