Ximp
All you really need to know about this film is
that most of the budget clearly went into designing a fairly creepy and
memorable poster (above). Other than that this is one of the absolutely
worst horror films no just make that films to come along in quite a
while. Its incompetence was nearly mind boggling in its totality. You could
give a camera to a high school student and they could make a better film
than this it even makes The Blair Witch Project look like a work of genius
by comparison. This is no exaggeration you are warned.
Here is a film in which the two highest billed
actors have at most ten minutes of screen time. And one of them - Michael
Wong - often speaks in English as he is wont to do but get this they
have someone dub his English dialogue and the dubber can barely speak
English!
The other star Diana Pang Dan only appears from
time to time for a minute or so looks scared laughs like a crazy woman
and vanishes again. This is especially irritating in that with this title
and with Pang Dan in it one might logically think that it is connected
to her classic 1996 film The Imp, but such is not the case. Oh I get
it this is what the producers hoped for that suckers like me would
fall for this I think I am starting to understand this movie business!
Not only that but how quickly time has passed
it seems only a short time ago that Pang Dan was a HK sex siren and now
she is playing a grandmother! Since Pang Dan looks to be in her late 20s
and the grandchild is about eight years old it is a little difficult
to compute. Anyway Pang Dan is caring for her grandchild while the parents
are on vacation. She is a teacher at a summer school in which a handful
of students (Simon Lui is of course one of them - what would a HK horror
film be without him in the cast!) are staying for the summer. One night
she hears noises and goes out to investigate and by the time she gets
back the kid and her dog are frozen dinners in the refrigerator. Pang Dan
does her best Edvard Munch scream and pretty much does a disappearing act
for the rest of the film. If only everyone else had.
Pinky Cheung replaces Pang Dan and a new student
comes as well. Soon very strange occurrences start taking place dog head
soup for dinner, basketball players with no heads, a poke in the eye and
so much more. Its all ghastly the movie that is. At one point one of
the students says "I think you have seen too many horror films" and I couldn't
agree more.
The acting and direction in this film is so bad
that I think it would behoove all of them to pool their money buy this
film and destroy any evidence of it pretend that it was all a bad dream.
From films like this, it doesnt appear to take much to be a HK producer
these days a pocketful of change, an empty building and some actors desperately
in need of work. Anybody want to move to HK with me and give it a go?!
My rating for this film: 2.0