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The Midnight After (2014)

The Midnight After poster
Original title
那夜凌晨,我坐上了旺角開往大埔的紅VAN
Directed by
Fruit Chan
Genre
comedy horror
Country
People's Republic of China
Runtime
2h 04m
Rated
III
Rating
5.8 of 10 from 73 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A group of passengers on a Hong Kong minibus find themselves stranded after a mysterious event. The survivors struggle to understand what happened and who among them can be trusted.

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What happens

The Midnight After (Chinese: 那夜凌晨,我坐上了旺角開往大埔的紅VAN; Jyutping: Naa5 je6 ling4 san4, ngo5 co5 soeng5 liu5 Wong6 Gok3 hoi1 wong5 Daai6 Bou3 dik1 hung4 VAN) is a 2014 Hong Kong horror comedy film directed by Fruit Chan and starring Wong You-nam, Janice Man, Simon Yam, Kara Hui, Lam Suet, Chui Tien-you, Cheuk Wan-chi, Jiro Lee, Sam Lee and Jan Curious. The film is based on the web-novel, Lost on a Red Mini Bus to Taipo by the 25-year-old Hong Kong writer nicknamed "Mr. Pizza" from the Internet forum HKGolden. It was first serialized online from February to July 2012 and then published in book form in July 2012. The film had its world premiere at the Panorama section of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival on 7 February 2014. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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