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The Witch Haunts the Haunted Gate

1949

A slow, uneasy moral fable that uses dreamlike underworld imagery to turn guilt into a quiet, haunting pressure.

Directed by
Wong Hang
Genres
Horror
Starring
Lam Mui-Mui, 郭秀珍, 袁龍
Overview
Qiu Ying is a jealous dancer. Although she has been married for more than ten years, she still has a lot of control over her husband's every move. One day, Qiu Ying saw her husband chatting with a dancer and became so jealous that she argued with her husband and then killed him by mistake. She was about to run away, but she entered a park by mistake, and was so frightened by the murals of the Ten Emperor's Palace and the Nine Hells that she ran home. After returning home, Qiu Ying feels more and more uneasy and has to take sleeping pills to get some sleep. During her sleep, Qiu Ying dreams that she is in the underworld and witnesses all kinds of tortures in the hell. After waking up, Qiu Ying is deeply condemned by her conscience and decides to confess and turn herself in.

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Directed by
Wong Hang
Genres
Horror
Starring
Lam Mui-Mui, 郭秀珍, 袁龍
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Tone
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • guilt
  • morality
  • death
  • justice
  • faith
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror6
Humour1
Realism5
Romance1
Tension6
Darkness7
Complexity4
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
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Directed by
Wong Hang
Starring
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Country
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Languages
Cantonese

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