Hex (Cantonese version)
Shawscope Volume Four
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1h 36m
1980 • Hong Kong • Directed by Kuei Chih-Hung
After making successful thrillers, well-received action films and popular comedies, director Kuei Chih-hung put his first “hex” on the audience. This eerie, frightening, supernatural mystery thriller was so effective it led to Hex Versus Witchcraft and Hex After Hex. But this was the original, starring the lovely Tanny Tien Ni in a challenging role of a wronged, bed-ridden wife who is at the mercy of her evil husband… and so much more. What starts as an Asian variation of the classic French suspense film Diabolique becomes an exercise in fervid and frightening Hong Kong horror as one ghost after another appears to wreak havoc, insanity, and death. This is the Cantonese version.
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Hex Vs. Witchcraft (Cantonese version)
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Hex After Hex (Cantonese version)
1982 • Hong Kong • Directed by Kuei Chih-Hung
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