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Chinese horror

Index Chinese horror

Chinese horror is a term given to Chinese, Hong Kong, and Taiwanese films as part of the stream of Asian horror films. [1]

15 relations: Bio Zombie, China, Cinema of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Horror film, Jiangshi, Jiangshi fiction, My Left Eye Sees Ghosts, Pang brothers, Taiwan, The Eye (2002 film), The Eye (2008 film), The Vampire Who Admires Me, Troublesome Night, Yūrei.

Bio Zombie

Bio Zombie is a 1998 Hong Kong zombie comedy film, starring Jordan Chan.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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Cinema of Hong Kong

The cinema of Hong Kong is one of the three major threads in the history of Chinese language cinema, alongside the cinema of China, and the cinema of Taiwan.

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong (Chinese: 香港), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is an autonomous territory of China on the eastern side of the Pearl River estuary in East Asia.

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Horror film

A horror film is a film that seeks to elicit a physiological reaction, such as an elevated heartbeat, through the use of fear and shocking one’s audiences.

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Jiangshi

A jiangshi, also known as a Chinese "hopping" vampire, is a type of reanimated corpse in Chinese legends and folklore.

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Jiangshi fiction

Jiangshi fiction, or goeng-si fiction in Cantonese, is a literary and cinematic genre of horror based on the jiangshi of Chinese folklore, a reanimated corpse controlled by Taoist priests that resembles the zombies and vampires of Western fiction.

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My Left Eye Sees Ghosts

My Left Eye Sees Ghosts is a 2002 Hong Kong film produced and directed by Johnnie To and Wai Ka-Fai, and starring Sammi Cheng, Lau Ching-Wan, Lee San-San, and Cherrie Ying.

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Pang brothers

The Pang Brothers are Danny Pang Phat and Oxide Pang Chun, twin-brother screenwriters and film directors, born in 1965 in Hong Kong.

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Taiwan

Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a state in East Asia.

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The Eye (2002 film)

The Eye, also known as Seeing Ghosts, is a 2002 horror film directed by the Pang brothers.

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The Eye (2008 film)

The Eye is a 2008 American supernatural horror film directed by David Moreau and Xavier Palud, scripted by Sebastian Gutierrez, and starring Jessica Alba, Parker Posey, Alessandro Nivola, and Rade Šerbedžija.

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The Vampire Who Admires Me

The Vampire Who Admires Me is a 2008 Hong Kong mystery film directed by Cub Chin starring Samuel Pang and Roger Kwok and actresses JJ Jia Maggie Li, Natalie Meng, model Ankie Beilke, Winnie Leung, and model Tanya Ng.

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Troublesome Night

Troublesome Night is a 1997 Hong Kong horror comedy film produced by Nam Yin and directed by Steve Cheng, Victor Tam and Herman Yau.

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Yūrei

are figures in Japanese folklore, analogous to Western legends of ghosts.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_horror

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