Just as we often mention that Huang Feihong will think of Jet Li and Ip Man will think of Donnie Yen, when it comes to zombie movies, many people will think of Ching-Ying Lam for the first time. Ching-Ying Lam's achievements really played a decisive role in zombie movies. Strictly speaking, he can be said to be the spokesman of "Zombie Movie". I believe that many people grew up watching Ching-Ying Lam's films, and his films have become an "indelible" memory of countless people's childhood, at least for the curator.
As for Ching-Ying Lam's zombie movies, the curator thinks that their greatest feature is the ingenious combination of horror, comedy and kung fu. The film uses absurd techniques, which greatly stimulates the audience's sensory enjoyment. Although a little scary, it can make people find a humorous plot to ease the atmosphere while they are nervous, so that they will not be nervous all the time when watching the whole film. It's really two completely different experiences. I have to say something about Ching-Ying Lam's classic movie "Mr. Zombie"
Mr. Zombie is a zombie movie directed by Liu Guanwei, supervised by Sammo Hung, planned by Ceng Zhiwei, and starring Ching-Ying Lam, Xu Guanying, Siu-ho Chin, Oh Mom and Li Saifeng. The film cost * * * 8.5 million, which was not small at that time. However, due to the great integration of film theme and new elements, the film was not very optimistic at that time. Even Liu Guanwei, the director, pessimistically believes that this is probably the end of his career as a director, because he may lose everything, which once put He Guanchang and Sammo Hung, then the CEO of Jiahe Film, under great pressure.
As the first person who dared to eat crabs, he either got unprecedented delicious food or was poisoned. Apparently, Mr. Zombie is the former.
Mr. Zombie is the ultimate in plot, sound effects and action design. It has become an unchangeable law to use yellow paper, red pen, black ink, real knife, wood blade, glutinous rice and other Maoshan techniques to exorcise ghosts and bury corpses.
In addition, the combination of Ching-Ying Lam, Xu Guanying and Chen Xiaohao has also become a classic. This film can be said to be the pioneering work of this zombie mode.
It is reported that the film "Mr. Zombie" was first released in Taiwan Province Province, but its box office performance was unexpectedly successful. It is worth mentioning that the film's title in Taiwan Province is not Mr. Zombie, which we are familiar with, but another title, temporarily stop breathing.
In other words, the title of the film is indeed directly consistent with the story, but if it is now, some people may think that the title of the film is all bad at first sight. Anyway, the curator felt that the title of the film was really not as good as Mr. Zombie, and it was also the title of the film on the mainland CD at that time, otherwise the curator at that time didn't know if he would miss such a good film.
It is reported that the film was released in Taiwan Province soon, and it was also a great success in Hong Kong, directly hitting a box office score of 20.09 million, becoming the sixth overall box office ranking of Hong Kong films in that year. This achievement has not been broken by any one of its kind so far, and it can be said that it is quite impressive.
The success of Mr. Zombie not only opened the "zombie era" in Hong Kong, but also made more than 100 similar films in Hong Kong and Taiwan in the next five years. Similarly, this also established Ching-Ying Lam's position in the movies with the same theme. The iconic eyebrow in the film, Uncle Mao Shandao with a moustache, has also become the most classic screen image in Ching-Ying Lam's acting career.
After Mr. Zombie, Ching-Ying Lam has released many similar films, such as The Zombie Family, Mr. Ghost, One Eyebrow, Mr. New Zombie, and created a "zombie dynasty" belonging to Ching-Ying Lam. Ching-Ying Lam, a legendary figure in Hong Kong film industry and the founder of zombie movies, has given us countless surprises and laughter.