"Zombie Family" is a horror film (ghost film) directed by Liu Guanwei and co-starring Lin Zhengying, Yuan Biao, Li Saifeng, Zhong Fa, and Lou Nanguang. It was released in Hong Kong on August 15, 1986. The film tells the story of Guo Dunhuang, a black market antique dealer who dis

"Zombie Family" is a horror film (ghost film) directed by Liu Guanwei and co-starring Lin Zhengying, Yuan Biao, Li Saifeng, Zhong Fa and Lou Nanguang. It was released in Hong Kong on August 15, 1986. The film tells the story of Guo Dunhuang, a black market antique dealer who discovers several zombies and wants to sell them to make money, but the zombies later escape to the city.

[Plot Summary] Guo Dunhuang, a black market antique dealer, took two apprentices to search for antiquities. The three of them accidentally touched the mechanism and opened the closed secret room. They found three zombies, a man, a woman and a small zombie, each with paper talismans on their foreheads to suppress them. Guo decided to use the little zombie as a cargo and transported it to a black market trading organization to trade with the leader K. During the transportation, Guo accidentally took off the evil paper charm on the little zombie's head, and the little zombie regenerated and was able to escape. In the secret room, an apprentice also got rid of the zombie paper talisman, causing zombies to appear. Guo returned and fought with the apprentice against two large zombies, and worked together to subdue the zombies. However, the apprentice was bitten by the zombies and began to rot on his body, so he went to Dr. Lin's office. Seek medical attention. Dr. Lin followed them to the studio. For fear of the zombies causing trouble, he advocated destroying the zombies. However, the antique dealer was unwilling to suffer losses and the police intervened. A melee broke out between all parties, and two large zombies took the opportunity to escape. The little zombie was treated as a villain by the children who didn't know the truth and made friends, and they were having a great time; the big zombie arrived and the zombie family reunited. The police set up a heavy siege to eliminate the zombie family, but the antique dealer and his two apprentices turned into zombies because they were bitten by zombies.

The specific details about "zombies" and "Maoshan Shu" are very folk-colored. The folk legendary techniques of using glutinous rice, ink thread, peach wood swords, and yellow paper charms to control zombies were all absorbed by "Mr. Zombie" and were adopted by "Nine "Uncle" Lin Zhengying used extremely professional "Maoshan" techniques to perform each one. The zombie's shape and movement characteristics also draw inspiration from folklore: wearing the official uniform of the Qing Dynasty, with its hands stretched out, its feet together like a sparrow, jumping around like a sparrow, and identifying its direction by human breathing.

The biggest difference between "Zombie Family" and the Hong Kong zombie movies of the same period is that the zombies have feelings. Zombies were originally described as monsters without any sense of humanity. However, in the film, the three zombies are naturally related to each other because they are parents and sons. Deep love. The little zombie fell into the world by mistake, and developed deep friendships with several children. They played some warm and interesting tricks, and the zombies also gained a little bit of family and friendship. However, it is a bloodthirsty walking dead after all. The highlight of the last scene where zombies wreak havoc in a bustling city was bizarre and interesting for Hong Kong audiences, but familiar to Japanese audiences. In addition, the little zombies with super powers fit the cultural taste of Fuso, which made "Zombie Family" an unexpected success in Japan. Afterwards, there was a short-lived "zombie craze". I am afraid this is something that Hong Kong filmmakers did not expect. .

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