Troublesome Night 3 (1998)
Reviewed by: Mark on 1999-12-30
Summary: Horror anthology which turns serious
Another horror anthology pic with plenty of Chinese ghosts backlit and drifting sideways, in that way that they do. This one is not as zany as Troublesome Night 2, but is a better movie all round. The stories revolve around a wacky group of morgue attendants.

The first tale is about a lovestruck young undertaker who has to work on his cantopop idol after an accident leaves her all smashed up - how can he get her looking good for the open casket funeral?

The second story follows the fortunes of three of the staff who do freelance funerals. When they shortchange a granny by doing her service on the cheap, she comes back from the grave to haunt them (well, to possess them one by one and chase the other two around with an axe, knife and/or baseball bat to be precise. It's a form of haunting, I guess).

The third story actually addresses issues of love, death and grief in a serious fashion, pushing the spooky comedy antics aside to make way for a genuinely moving dramatic segment. Ah, Hong Kong films, four genres in one flick. Gotta love it.