"Nightmares in Precinct 7" needs a little bit more sparkles to make it perfect.

Fong Jing (Andy Hui) is a brilliant detective who falls into a coma during a police mission. During his coma period, Oscar (Rachel Lee), a nurse, takes care of him. And when he wakes up, he starts seeing dead people everywhere (ghosts, in other words). Later, he is back upon his job position and receives a case regarding a serial killer. All 6 of the victims were nurses who got raped and slaughtered but only 3 bodies were found. Those bodies were found because Fong's partner (Simon Loui) sees their ghosts appeared in the police station telling him where their bodies were located. With the help of a ghost (Cheung Tat-Ming) who he meets back at the hospital, he realizes that Oscar will be the next victim. Now, Fong has to arrest the serial killer before Oscar gets murdered.

With his successful directing in the Troublesome Night series, Herman Yau did a fine job here to produce another horror movie. However, not much scary moments to be noted since most of these scary moments were seen before. Old tricks, in other words. For example, green faces, computerized ugly ghost faces and a ghost with long hair (whose covered its face) wearing a white long dress (which reminds you of the successful Japanese horror movie, "The Ring"). The great comedian actor, Cheung Tat-Ming, produced some comedic moments during the film. Nevertheless, this film is kind of like a crime movie more than a horror one. The ending of this movie is kind of bizarreness for me. Or is it a surprise? You have to watch it yourself.

As for the performances, Andy Hui has another chance to be a lead actor here. His attempt in this movie was great along with Simon Loui being his sidekick. Rachel Lee was also great in producing a tender and warm feeling with her character. Another notable actor to this movie was Cheung Tat-Ming as mentioned, his funny moments did sparked along the movie.

To conclude, this movie could have been a come back for the horror genre but those old tricks are not as scary as it might seems. As a result, it is just the same ghost movies we watched earlier this year. This movie is still a recommendation for those who likes horror/ghost movies. Not typically a great scary one, but other scenes in the movie will carry you along.