Tales from the Dark 1
Tales from the Dark 1 is a 2013 Hong Kong horror anthology film directed by Simon Yam, Lee Chi-ngai, and Fruit Chan. The film is split into three segments, each based on a short story by Lilian Lee. The first part, titled Stolen Goods (贓物), starred Simon Yam as a jobless man who steals funerary urns and forces the dead's relatives to pay him to get back the urns. The second part, titled A Word in the Palm (放手), starred Tony Leung Ka-fai as a fortune-teller who teams up with his neighbour (Kelly Chen) to help the ghost of a schoolgirl (Cherry Ngan). The final part, titled Jing Zhe (驚蟄), starred Susan Shaw as a "villain-hitter" who is approached by a woman (Dada Chan) to curse four people.
Plot
Stolen Goods
More details
| author | Fruit Chan |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Hong Kong |
| director | Fruit Chan Lawrence Ah Mon Simon Yam |
| editor | Fruit Chan Kwong Chi-leung Lee Chi-ngai |
| genre | horror |
| keywords | bedspace apartment belong coffin home columbarium curse drown fortune telling haunt hell banknotes hell money hong kong chief executive inherit jing zhe kidnap leung chun-ying murder out of control pregnant wife ransom note ransom notes stolen goods swim vengeful ghost villain-hitter villain hitting wealthy woman young woman |
| musicBy | Kenji Kawai |
| producer | Bill Kong Mathew Tang |
| productionCompany | Edko Films Movie Addict Productions |
| publisher | Edko Films |
| theme | anthology ghost |