646f9e108c A public housing tenement is plunged into a dark storm of supernatural chaos. In this eerie and chilling, contemporary, action/special effects laden homage to the classic Chinese vampire movies of the 1980's, writer-director-producer, Juno Mak makes his feature directorial debut. Co-produced by J-Horror icon Takashi Shimizu, and reuniting some of the original cast members of the classic Mr. Vampire series, RIGOR MORTIS is set in a creepy and moody Hong Kong public housing tower whose occupants we soon discover, run the gamut from the living to the dead, to the undead, along with ghosts, vampires and zombies. I personally love Mr. Vampire series, and yes, the casts, they were part of my childhood memories. I was really excited when I knew that Rigor Mortis was made as a tribute to Mr. Vampire series, I suddenly recalled the cast and song.<br/><br/>While watching first bit of the movie, i was brought back to the memory of Chin Siu-Ho, which in this film seemed like playing himself, complete with the pictures of Mr. Vampire casts, of course with a touch of dark fiction. He was bitter of what apparently, being separated from his son and wife, and he unable to let go of their memories.<br/><br/>Rigor Mortis was dark and emotional horror movie, the action and ghosts was beautifully crafted by wonderful visual effect.<br/><br/>I like the whole package, the dark background, the building suspense, which actually was not as scary as i expected, but the twin did give me goosebumps and eerie feeling even after the movie is over, and the uneasiness came from the bloods and the protruding bones. the act was superb, and those veteran HK movie stars still delivers their best and uniqueness.<br/><br/>I love this movie, especially the end part, i read other reviews, said that the ending was absurd and disappointing, but i was really satisfied with the ending. i think the ending is sending a message about options we have in life; live and die as nobody or live and die for a purpose, plus the clear message of about letting go and attachment.<br/><br/>I believe that Juno would like to let his audience to find their own interpretation of the ending.<br/><br/>But, I love it, a rare horror movie with the touch of strong emotion in the story line and strong cast, which reminds me of Night Shamalayan's 6th sense and Mama.<br/><br/>Kudos to Juno and Takashi Shimizu. and thanks for bringing back the memories! :) This is a movie shows the nostalgia for Chinese zombies movie in old time, Chinese 5 elements, Chinese taoist priest and Chinese zombie. The zombie movie in old time is funny but this zombie movie is not funny at all, it's serious and heavy. The actors are all popular once and sou-ho Chen is the actor of zombie movie that time. What he act is similar to himself but no that miserable, once popular but fell into his slump in his life. He choose to commit suicide in the movie but he was saved by Yau and zombie and evil appear in the building but at last we know that these things is just a illusion before the death of Chen, he just died silently. He don't want to die this way because he spend his whole life on zombie movie, he wished that he can died in a superb way with zombie and priest and magic. It's miserable and wretched. The actors are awesome. Those old actors show their professional skills of acting. The little young kid is also lovely although I often don't like kids in movie but I really like him, he is really lovely and cute. This is really a awesome movie. The best horrible movie in those year. Rigor Mortis’ strongest suit lies with its cast. The film comes with lavish (and sometimes distractingly so) digital effects, but it’s the old-timers who are instrumental in injecting humanity and life into the film.
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