My Neighbors are Phantoms
There are three very impressive things going for
this film and they are Chingmy Yau, Cheung Man and Amy Yip - what more
could you ask for! Well actually besides that, this film has some very
funny entertaining moments. It is one of the better comedy/ horror films
to come out of HK in my opinion and I enjoy it more on each viewing..
Chingmy and her sister start to notice that the
new neighbors are a bit peculiar - such as throwing decapitated heads out
of their window - and soon begin to suspect that they are ghosts. Which
in fact they are, having just escaped from a picture in which they had
been imprisoned by a Taoist monk for 50 years. Now they have to suck the
blood of 49 humans to go north (whatever that means).
Chingmy, Amy Yip, Natalis Chan and a few others
decide to take matters into their own hands and defeat the ghosts. They
receive the help of a Taoist priest who gives them a number of spells and
magic weapons, but these ghosts are pretty powerful and one has a very
very long tongue! Much of their battle against the evil spirits is very
funny and quite clever. Finally Natalis Chan has to take on the spirit
of Bruce Lee to fight the phantoms.
Lots of fun special effects, the biggest of course
which belong to Amy who is a girlfriend of a cop in this and gets to pummel
someone with her assets and has some other very funny scenes. Cheung Man
is very lovely here and plays one of the phantoms, but falls in love with
a human. Lots of silly fun and it looked as if the actors were enjoying
themselves.
My rating for this film: 7.0
