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Midnight Zone (1997) 3 Horror Stories w/Anthony Wong & Elvis Tsu

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Wilson Yip's Horror Omnibus with Anthony Wong & Elvis Tsui

original Hong Kong/Chinese title: HUI ZHUAN SHOU SHI

director: Wilson Yip
starring: Anthony Wong · Elvis Tsui · Liz Kong · Jerry Lamb · Yuen King-Tam · Maggie Wong

This is a horror anthology of three stories that begin with the stroke of midnight:
HEADLESS GHOST · HIT AND RUN · MIDNIGHT DINNER

Headless Soul is a mystery involving police officer Fung who is given the assignment of finding the missing head of a murdered victim. In the second story, Hit and Run, Elvis Tsui and Liz Kong play a married couple who accidentally run over a pedestrian but then are unable to find the body. And Anthony Wong stars as Shing in the final segment, Midnight Dinner. This one deals with the ghost of Shing's dead mother who seems obsessed with cooking dinner for his dysfunctional family.

After working as an assistant director for ten year, Wilson Yip made his debut with this motion picture. He followed with the quirky BIO ZOMBIE before finding his stride in martial arts films. Today he is best known for his series of IP MAN movies and the recent Tony Jaa actioner PARADOX. He is also responsible for the sexy 2011 remake of the CHINESE GHOST STORY.

A Hong Kong production with English and Chinese subtitles; widescreen format, uncut (89 minutes),
DVD encoded for ALL REGION NTSC WORLD FORMAT; extras include selected trailers.

$19.95