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Tales from the Dark 1 (2013)

Tales from the Dark 1 poster
Original title
李碧華鬼魅系列：迷離夜
Directed by
Lawrence Ah Mon, Simon Yam, Fruit Chan
Genre
horror film
Country
Hong Kong
Runtime
1h 54m
Rated
IIB
Rating
5.6 of 10 from 24 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

In three separate stories, a jobless man steals funeral urns to extort money. A fortune teller and his neighbor help a dead schoolgirl. A woman curses people for hire.

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What happens

Tales from the Dark 1 (Chinese: 李碧華鬼魅系列: 迷離夜; lit. 'Li Bihua's Ghost Series: Mysterious Night') is a 2013 Hong Kong horror anthology film directed by Simon Yam, Lee Chi-ngai, and Fruit Chan. The film is split into three segments, each based on a short story by Lilian Lee. The first part, titled Stolen Goods (贓物), starred Simon Yam as a jobless man who steals funerary urns and forces the dead's relatives to pay him to get back the urns. The second part, titled A Word in the Palm (放手), starred Tony Leung Ka-fai as a fortune-teller who teams up with his neighbour (Kelly Chen) to help the ghost of a schoolgirl (Cherry Ngan). The final part, titled Jing Zhe (驚蟄), starred Susan Shaw as a "villain-hitter" who is approached by a woman (Dada Chan) to curse four people. The first segment also marked the directorial debut of actor Simon Yam. The film was shown at the New York Asian Film Festival on 28 June 2013 and released theatrically in Hong Kong on 11 July 2013. It was followed by Tales from the Dark 2, which was released four weeks later on 8 August 2013. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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