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Friday, 6 June 2008
Also Known As : Hark sei nei
- Audio - Cantonese
- Subtitle - English
- Year - 3 April 2008
- Genre - Horror
- Run Time - 98 min
- Director - Cub Chin
Starring
- Sam Lee
- Tommy Yuen
- Elanne Kwong
Plot
The prolific Pang Brothers have been behind a string of horror hits dating back to 2002’s critically-acclaimed The Eye - and there seems to be no stopping them. Six years later, people have yet to tire of Pang-produced horror, which is where Scare 2 Die comes in. Directed by the Pangs’ longtime assistant director Cub Chien, Scare 2 Die is an omnibus horror movie featuring three gory tales of supernatural dis…….. Chien varies his approach in this commercial chiller, going for cultural frights, a gore-filled cautionary tale, and a spectacularly intense twenty-minute chase involving disembowelment, the living dead, and rising star Elanne Kwong (Invisible Target) swinging an axe. Joining Kwong in this trio of horror tales is the ubiquitous Sam Lee, as well as Pang Brothers veteran Lawrence Chou (The Eye), and Tommy Yuen of boy band E-kids.
Down-on-his-luck gambler Kan Au (Sam Lee) owes a big sum of money, and needs to go on a winning streak soon or the loan sharks will take the interest from his hide. Luckily, Kan finds a blessed coin that allows him to draws the unbeatable “13 Unique Wonders” hand of mahjong on 13 consecutive nights, which should be enough for him to pay his debts. The problem: every time he uses the coin to win,
somebody dies a gruesome, gory death. Meanwhile, fetching Luk Wing (Elanne Kwong) wakes up one morning to discover her family being eaten! Everyone around her has become a zombie, and Wing has to pick up an axe and fight back, or her heart will be come lunch for the living dead. Finally, slacker Chan (Tommy Yuen) signs up for “Scare 2 Die” a reality game show with a prize purse of $130,000. He’s supposed to survive a haunted house, but for some reason, the game show’s manufactured scares are following him everywhere - even to his apartment! Is “Scare 2 Die” trying to surprise Chan, or are real ghosts trying to take him out of the game early?
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