The novel effect greatly influenced the audience. After the film was released, the box office exceeded 10 million yuan. Although Ching-Ying Lam failed to make a profit because of its reckless pursuit of excellence, it opened the way for Hong Kong filmmakers to re-examine local zombie movies. After 1990, Hong Kong zombie movies, which are at the end of their tether, once again set off a creative upsurge, and the trend of the west wind spreading eastward also intensified. 1990 The first scene of the zombie movie was shot by Billy Chen, who was born in the same class with him. The film "Ghost Hunting" co-authored by them is called "Ghost Hunting", which is actually a collection of zombies. There is a ghost, but he is a loyal ghost servant. The most creative part of the film is to experiment with zombies with modern scientific instruments at the beginning. It was very interesting, but unfortunately it didn't go deep, and finally it just turned into a small gimmick. This year, Ching-Ying Lam also made a film "Exorcism Police". From the early years of the Republic of China to modern times, it followed the mode of fighting between police partners and corpse demons in Liu Zhenwei's "The Bad Hall of the Devils", but it still played Maoshan, which was a combination of two types of movies: Maoshan zombie film and police partner solving crimes. As for Liu Zhenwei, who is good at mixing Chinese and Western cultures, in the later Dead House, it seems that he borrowed from local traditional zombie movies on the surface and had the plot of stealing treasures, but in essence he was poking fun at politics by using zombie themes. The Millennium zombie in the film is actually Qin Shihuang, still as arrogant as before. A group of people pretended to be Jing Ke and Wang Zhaojun on the stage with the intention of approaching Qin's body and then destroying it. It is full of banter, which is the best embodiment of Liu Zhenwei's comedy style! It seems so. From the end of the 1990s to the beginning of the new century, movies like "The Biochemical Guard" (directed by Ye Weixin) and "The Zombie Task of Biochemical Special Police" (directed by Wai-Man Cheng) have appeared on the Hong Kong screen, but their main plots are Resident Evil, which imitates Japanese video games. As for biochemical corpse keepers and zombies, they are also imported, mainly infected by viruses, which are fierce and scary or can be compared with China. On the TV screen, after Ching-Ying Lam's death, ATV gave up making the traditional folk-custom Zombie Master, and instead filmed the modern supernatural drama I have a date with a zombie, which completely borrowed from the western vampire family system. The plot combines Chinese and western, and the theme is more profound and completely entertaining than the previous zombie movies, and it is about love and redemption. In addition, the production was excellent and the performance was excellent, and the result was very popular. Even Shao Yi, the sworn enemy of ATV and the owner of the wireless TV station, is very popular. But despite this, the ratings of the drama began to decline after the filming of the second part, and the zombie theme of "West Wind Spreading to the East" did not extend to the big screen.
Bonus; prize
The Best Action Guidance of the 2nd Hong Kong Film Awards The Best Action Guidance of the 3rd Hong Kong Film Awards was nominated by the 5th Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Supporting Actor.
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As for Master Ching-Ying Lam, many children and young people have seen his movies now, but many children and even young people don't know the names of one or two people they often see in many zombie movies. But people who know his name are trying to help others remember and publicize their favorite masters. A 15-year-old netizen named "Forbidden Cheap" once said a meaningful sentence: "For us born after 90, most of our friends watched Uncle Ying's movies on TV at a very young age. At that time, we only knew that there was a master who often appeared in zombie movies and felt very close at first sight. After growing up, the impression of zombie movies in previous years has been covered by bright colors. However, perhaps by fate, I happened to see these movies again. None of these films are strange, but I can't remember them at all. And just after that, because of the affinity, face and unspeakable courage of this master, let me search the information of this master. But I got an unacceptable result: the older master in the film is only 45 years old. At this point, regret and doubt are intertwined, and the experience is incisive. The netizen spoke the voices of many contemporary people and people who will watch Ching-Ying Lam movies in the future. This shows the charm and personality of Ching-Ying Lam's films. After the death of Master Ching-Ying Lam, many friends asked if there were any videos or records. And some questions about why the address of the cemetery is not made public ... but there are no particularly real reasons for these questions, but here are 1 answers, from which we can get many answers: "So I asked my family not to disclose my illness to the outside world before I died. More than a month before I died, I broke up with my girlfriend King-Tan Yuen reluctantly. Besides, a week before I died, Ching-Ying Lam said that she was ill, which was terrible. Refuse to go to the hospital to visit my brothers and children, and refuse to see my children at the end of my life. "There are few reports about the master, only one recorded interview, not to mention the video of the master's death." Therefore, if you want to know more about Master Ching-Ying Lam, you can join more groups and organizations and find more useful information. And as far as possible publicity and as entries and materials.
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One feature of Ching-Ying Lam's ghost films is horror, which runs through every film. This is also the difference between Lin's films and other purely scary horror films. The plot is driven by emotion, emotion is driven by ambition, ambition is driven by thoughts, and evil thoughts are used by ghosts and gods. Therefore, the appearance of ghosts in Lin's films is quite in line with the traditional concept of warning ghosts and gods in China, so the real terror is the most frightening, and this fear reaches people's hearts. This is the most successful place in Ching-Ying Lam. He is good at using the hidden fear in the national blood to create fear. This method is very clever, and it is probably the most successful place in all successful horror movies. Another feature of Lin films is vulgarity. Most of the roles played by Ching-Ying Lam are Taoist priests. Wearing a Taoist robe and holding a peach wooden sword is his classic image. However, this Taoist priest is often far from Gao Daquan's heroic image. He is often a secular person or a secular ordinary citizen. He is greedy for money, loves to take advantage of petty advantages and loves face. Sometimes he is confused, and sometimes he is better than small color. He really looks down on foreign religions and plays pranks in other people's churches, without the tolerance of a noble man at all. This kind of image makes him close to the truth of life, makes him have no sense of distance from the audience, and makes the characters he creates often seem to exist faintly around us. Although his style of chanting in the film is a bit exaggerated, it basically restores the kind commonly used by wizards and witches in reality. This is back to the above, convincing, convincing. After watching the movie, you can still follow the train of thought of the movie. If you are there, if you see ghosts, it is really the highest enjoyment of watching ghost movies, if it can be said to be "enjoyment".
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In Hong Kong's zombie movies, many movie stars have played the role of "Mao Shanchang", such as Zhong Fa, Chen You, Zheng Zeshi, Richard Ng, and even the famous ticket seller Ni Kuang. However, if we say that the most popular and photogenic image is Ching-Ying Lam's image of maoshan taoist, which is "one-browed, cold and humorous, smart and agile, and even has a style of painting and chanting Buddha", it is deeply rooted in people's hearts. As a representative of Hong Kong zombie movies, Ching-Ying Lam really has a soft spot for zombie movies, which made him famous and made a lot of efforts. Therefore, when Hong Kong's traditional Maoshan zombie films were repeatedly imitated by many follow-up works without innovation, and even gradually lost the audience, in order to avoid Hong Kong's zombie films being poor in skills and self-defeating, Ching-Ying Lam began to actively integrate western vampires and zombies into Hong Kong zombie films while making such films without losing the local folk taste. He directed and performed One Eyebrow Road flyover on 1989.
It is the best example of its "combination of soil and foreign culture". This film not only changes the folk saying of "raising ghosts" to "raising little zombies", but also makes Taoist priests and little zombies feel like father and son and fight against the enemy together! And boldly lead a western vampire to fight a Chinese-western war. The most vivid freshness of the film is that Mao Shanshu can't subdue western zombies. In desperation, a Taoist priest blasted it with explosives, but it still didn't work. In the end, he actually trapped the western zombies with mud, and this thing became. The whole movie "One Eyebrow Road flyover" is funny and exciting, and the novel special effects such as maoshan taoist's "talk about chickens and ducks" with Christians and Maoshan's fight with western zombies have greatly influenced the audience. After the film was released, the box office exceeded 10 million yuan. Although Ching-Ying Lam failed to make a profit because of its reckless pursuit of excellence, it opened the way for Hong Kong filmmakers to re-examine local zombie movies. After 1990, Hong Kong zombie movies, which are at the end of their tether, once again set off a creative upsurge, and the trend of the west wind spreading eastward also intensified. 1990 The first scene of the zombie movie was shot by Billy Chen, who was born in the same class with him. The film "Ghost Hunting" co-authored by them is called "Ghost Hunting", which is actually a collection of zombies. There is a ghost, but he is a loyal ghost servant. The most creative part of the film is to experiment with zombies with modern scientific instruments at the beginning. It was very interesting, but unfortunately it didn't go deep, and finally it just turned into a small gimmick. This year, Ching-Ying Lam also made a film "Exorcism Police". From the early years of the Republic of China to modern times, it followed the mode of fighting between police partners and corpse demons in Liu Zhenwei's "The Bad Hall of the Devils", but it still played Maoshan, which was a combination of two types of movies: Maoshan zombie film and police partner solving crimes. As for Liu Zhenwei, who is good at mixing Chinese and Western cultures, in the later Dead House, it seems that he borrowed from local traditional zombie movies on the surface and had the plot of stealing treasures, but in essence he was poking fun at politics by using zombie themes. The Millennium zombie in the film is actually Qin Shihuang, still as arrogant as before. A group of people pretended to be Jing Ke and Wang Zhaojun on the stage with the intention of approaching Qin's body and then destroying it. It is full of banter, which is the best embodiment of Liu Zhenwei's comedy style! In fact, if the combination of folklore and western vampires in Hong Kong-made zombie films is the most absurd, The Zombie Doctor directed by Lu Jianming should be the first one. The film begins with doctor Lin Baoyi being bitten by Chen Yalun, a female vampire, during a one-night stand in England, and then returns to Hong Kong, gradually showing the symptoms of western vampires and zombies, such as being afraid of the sun, greedy for patients' blood, wearing a black cloak, sleeping at night and even hanging upside down like a bat. Fortunately, the female vampire saved him. Unexpectedly, the vampire count rushed to Hong Kong at this time, so the two men fought in the hospital. After the defeat, three male doctors were possessed by Liu, Guan, and finally defeated the western vampires and zombies! Seeing this, I have to admire the writer's super imagination, but the audience doesn't seem to buy it, because it is so ridiculous and funny. In contrast, it is a totally westernized vampire movie "Ching-Ying Lam" made by Debao Company (taken from the image of exorcist police).
Bite OK is the most popular among 1990 zombie films. In a European castle, Count Li, a vampire played by, dressed in a black dress, is as elegant as an aristocratic vampire in western Gothic literature. The plot of the movie is also bloodsucking, unusual love, fighting and romance, which has won the charm of western vampire movies, but it is less scary. This is quite different from the previous practice that Hong Kong zombie films only pay attention to random copying and blind grafting, but never pay attention to the essential difference between western vampires and zombies. It is a bold attempt for Hong Kong zombie films to move closer to internationalization. Although the creation of 1990 Hong Kong zombie movies presents a diversified pattern, and some even completely abandon the traditional routines of local Maoshan art, the overall response is not satisfactory. Too many shoddy works have made the audience tired and indifferent to such subjects. In addition, Jing Wong's gambling movies and Tsui Hark's martial arts movies later became popular, and filmmakers turned to gambling movies and martial arts movies. At that time, few people dared to involve the zombie theme that was very popular at that time. In fact, at this time, zombie movies are really hard to return, leaving only Ching-Ying Lam to support the overall situation. Although he has made many wonderful creative works such as African Monks, such as Magic of Maoshan Mountain, Exotic Customs, Comic Card God Must be Crazy, Good Zombie Ancestors Fighting African Giants, etc., he could not return to heaven in the end. Therefore, all the works such as Zombie Supreme, Mr. New Zombie, Musical Zombie, Xiangxi Corpse King, etc., which later returned to the local Maoshan zombie movies, or "One Room with a Whispering Tooth Ghost" which completely imitated western vampire movies such as Bite OK, inevitably failed at the box office one after another-until 1993, Hong Kong and Taiwan set off a craze for following the trend of martial arts movies. However, as the saying goes, the millipede is dead but not stiff. In the mid-1990s, although the theme of zombies almost disappeared on the big screen in Hong Kong, it continued to linger on the TV screen, thanks to the persistence of "zombie master" Ching-Ying Lam. From 1995 to 1997, the series "Zombie Master" co-produced by him and ATV has very good ratings, which shows him that Maoshan zombie films reflecting local folk customs are still very marketable. Who knows, just as Ching-Ying Lam tried to make persistent efforts and prepare to take the third film of Zombie Master, he died of liver cancer on 1997. As soon as the death of this usually low-key "honest man" (Cai) was announced, the Hong Kong film industry was shocked and lamented, and it was inevitable that Maoshan zombie film, which has been unique in Hong Kong since Mr. Zombie and can create amazing visual effects with only local stunts and kung fu acrobatics, will be truly lost after death.
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1997 died of liver cancer, all because of the good wine in my life, what a pity! ! ! As the saying goes, Ching-Ying Lam suffered all his life. At the age of 45, she just got a confidante, but eventually she died of advanced liver cancer. 1997 1 1 month. Because Ching-Ying Lam always kept a low profile and didn't want to get terminally ill, when she learned that she was ill, she broke up with her girlfriend King-Tan Yuen. Even if Zai Yuan wanted to be with her, Ching-Ying Lam didn't want to get entangled with her, so she moved out of their cohabitation and moved to her sister's house alone for illness. Although Ching-Ying Lam has worked hard in the film industry for many years, only Wai Tung, Meng Hai, John Lone and Sammo Hung are really familiar with him. But even they learned about Ching-Ying Lam's illness from the newspaper. At that time, John Lone happened to be in Hongkong and wanted to visit him in the hospital, but he refused, because Ching-Ying Lam was too ill to even see his children. After Ching-Ying Lam's death, he didn't send a funeral with Taoist ceremony, but held a funeral with Buddhist ceremony. The second part of Zombie Master is his last work. Originally, the play was to be filmed in the third part after the hit, but Master Dowling got an incurable disease at this time. Since then, the legend of "zombie movies" in Hong Kong film industry has really gone to another world.