The Occupant - 靈氣逼人 (1984)
Title: The Occupant (靈氣逼人)
Year: 1984
Country: Hong Kong
Language: Cantonese | Mandarin
Subtitles: English | Chinese
Size: 487MB
Media: MKV
Cast: Raymond Wong Pak-Ming, Sally Yeh, Chow Yun-Fat, Mak Git-Man, Lo Lieh, Melvin Wong Gam-San, Judy Lee Chu-Dik, Wellington Fung Wing, Kenny Ho Ga-Ging , Yiu Yau-Hung, Mama Hung
When Sally Yeh moves into a haunted Hong Kong high-rise, who's she gonna call? Chow Yun Fat! Five years before their now-classic romantic pairing in The Killer, Yeh and Chow starred in this 1984 horror-comedy hybrid from director Ronny Yu (The Bride with White Hair). The Occupant's evenhanded mix of Creepy and Crazy foreshadows Yu's later work on American horror flicks like Bride of Chucky, and although Chow is operating largely in comedic mode, his role as a fearless police detective looks forward to his later heroic bloodshed collaborations with John Woo. But this is Sally Yeh's show, and her wonderful split-personality performance as a naive student of the supernatural possessed by the ghost of a sultry singing chanteuse is what ultimately makes the film a success. Sally stars as a wide-eyed Canadian college student named Angie, who comes to Hong Kong to do some field research for her study of Chinese superstitions. She gets a bit more than she bargained for when she rents an apartment haunted by the spirit of a spurned singer. As if fending off ghosts wasn't bad enough, Angie also has to deal with the unwanted affections of a sleazy con-man (Raymond Wong, All's Well Ends Well), as well as the sweet-talking detective (Chow) who vows to solve her supernatural case. Chow requires a little otherworldly help of his own after Angie's body is taken over by the ghost, who's hell-bent on reenacting the murder-suicide that ended her life!.