The first hour or so of this film feels like a decent setup for what will hopefully be a more intense third act. Unfortunately, at the hour mark the movie detours into cringe-country with the introduction of romance and never recovers.

Contrary to what I'd heard, this is not a scary movie. It has a few parts that might've been a little creepy, if they didn't feel ripped from The Ring and Kairo. The "climactic" ending is more ludicrous than anything, and I won't say too much, but in the end it comes too close to pedophilic necrophilia for my tastes!

I didn't hate the movie. I enjoyed seeing something well-made from HK again, as well as seeing Leslie Cheung and Waise Lee again. Really, I just enjoyed hearing some Cantonese again, it's been a while. But in the end, I felt that the reasonable amount of promise showed in the first half of the movie wasn't nearly enough to overcome the weak climax and resolution. Still, at least it wasn't filled with bad comedy like so many HK horror films.