The best Wong Ching-Ho’s horror movies

Wong Ching-Ho

Wong Ching-Ho

23/09/1919- 01/01/2013
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Wong Ching-Ho’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Wong Ching-Ho.

Return of the Dead

Return of the Dead
6.4/10
  • Genre: FantasyHorror
  • Release: 21/12/1979
  • Character: Old Professor
Three inmates in an asylum tell their stories. Story 1, a husband and wife discover they should be careful what they wish for. Story 2, a naked female ghost gets revenge from her watery grave. Story 3, a dead prostitute returns as a ghost.

Hell Has No Boundary

Hell Has No Boundary
6/10
Story revolves around a possessed young police woman who seems to be out killing everyone who gets in her way. Her boyfriend, photographer and boss at work are all suspicious of her and are out to find out what's the problem. With a story focusing on possession, vengeful spirits and murder, you're steadily entertained with a flick that manages to keep it's head above water.

Seeding of a Ghost

Seeding of a Ghost
6.5/10
  • Genre: HorrorThriller
  • Release: 29/12/1983
  • Character: Guest at Fong's home
A Hong Kong taxi driver suffers after being cursed by a sorcerer he accidentally hit with his cab. After the driver's wife is raped and killed by teenage hooligans, he pleads with the sorcerer to lift the hex and restore his wife to the land of the living. Otherworldly zombie chaos ensues.

Human Lanterns

Human Lanterns
6.6/10
  • Genre: ActionHorror
  • Release: 14/07/1982
  • Character: Old Tsui
This is it: one of the most talked about cult films ever made -- a maniacal masterpiece of the macabre, the martial arts, and the just plain weird. Shaw's first international star Lo Lieh stars as the insane swordsman who makes Chinese lamps from, yes, the skin of his enemies' sisters, mistresses, and wives. Although insanely conceived, it is beautifully filmed and unashamedly performed by a first rate cast of sexy starlets and kung-fu favorites.

Spiritual Trinity

Spiritual Trinity
5.7/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 01/01/1991
  • Character: Old Master
Two ghostexterminators have been married for many years. But they encounter a ghost they can not manage on their own and therefore ask the wife's old boyfriend for help. This leads to a love triangle while the ghost is stronger than they had imagined.

The Musical Vampire

The Musical Vampire
5.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyHorror
  • Release: 04/09/1992
  • Character: Uncle Deaf
A crazy white scientist resurrects a corpse with a werid chemical creating a super hopping ghost. The only thing that can somewhat control it is the sound of music. A Tao Priest and his two assistants try and stop it from destroying the countryside.

Hex After Hex

Hex After Hex
5.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyHorror
  • Release: 01/01/1982
  • Character: Uncle Wong
Hell may have no fury like a woman scorned, but hell, literally, really has no wrath like a lusting ghost scorned! Muscular "Venom" Lo Mang discovers just that when the demon arranges to have his true love killed in order to possess her. Chaos, revenge, insanity, violence, tragedy, and even romance ensue. Director Kuei Chih-hung, already famous for Bamboo House of Dolls, Killer Snakes, Ghost Eyes, Corpse, Hex, and many other cult classics, shoots the works with this amazing horror love story.

Sensual Pleasures

Sensual Pleasures
6.1/10
Sensual Pleasures features a collection of three, ghost story, sexual vignettes starring a viscerally sensual trio of hardcore experience with the well endowed Chen Ping, Chinese adult film legend Shirley Yu and the innocent doe-eyed Shaw Yin-yin.

Curse of Evil

Curse of Evil
6/10
  • Genre: ActionHorror
  • Release: 01/01/1982
  • Character: Butler Uncle Quan
13 family members are murdered and then dumped in a well. 30 years later their descendants are cursed...

Hex

Hex
6.4/10
  • Genre: ActionHorror
  • Release: 09/07/1980
  • Character: Taoist priest
Constantly mistreated by her cruel husband, the frail Chan Sau-ying awaits certain death from tuberculosis. The new servant girl, Yi-wah takes pity on her mistress' plight and the pair proceed to drown him one evening. They dump his body in a near-by pond but Sau-ying believes that the man's bloated corpse has risen from the bog to seek vengeance.

Corpse Mania

Corpse Mania
6.3/10
A necrophiliac killer is murdering the prostitutes at Madame Lan's brothel.

Fearful Interlude

Fearful Interlude
6.1/10
Accompanied by his old manservant, scholar Sung Li Ho (Hong Hoi) is on his way to the capital for the imperial exam. They spend a night in the house of Mrs. Yuan and Li Ho takes a fancy to her pretty daughter, Pei Fang (Dana). Li Ho is discovered by a maid peeping at Pei Fang as she takes a bath. He slips and falls into the bathtub, creating a most embarrassing situation. His old servant is also implicated and both are beaten up before being thrown out. Continuing their journey in the desolate countryside, they come across woodcutter Hsi Hsueh Kuei who puts them up for the night. Captivated by the beauty of the owner’s two daughters, who are vampires, he spends a night with them and turns into a skeleton. Chased by the vampires, Shun Lai makes a narrow escape.

The Killer Snakes

The Killer Snakes
6.1/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 05/02/1974
  • Character: Barber
A young man who has been beaten, abused, humiliated and laughed at all his life finds that he has an unusual empathy with snakes. He can talk to them and they understand him, and eventually he finds that he can get them to do his bidding. He decides to use his newfound friends to take his revenge on everyone who ever did him wrong.

Spirit of the Raped

Spirit of the Raped
6.1/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 13/03/1976
  • Character: Doctor checking Wang
A Shaw Brothers production featuring a supernatural tale of revenge. Liu Miao-Li suffers a string of terrible events. Once pushed to her limit, she decides to take back control of her existence, but chooses an unlikely path to vengeance.

The Ghost Story

The Ghost Story
6.5/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 25/05/1979
An old man of the village tells kinky ghost stories to a few of it's inhabitants after all the kids have gone to bed. What follows are stories that have horror elements and some soft-core nudity thrown in.

Fangs of the Cobra

Fangs of the Cobra
5.2/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 01/07/1977
  • Character: Accountant Zhang
Young man returns from studying abroad to take over management of the large family farm, and falls for the daughter of a tenant farmer. The unique twist is that her pet, best friend, confidante and protector is a cobra - but he hates snakes because his mother was bitten and killed by one when he was a child.

Ghost Eyes

Ghost Eyes
6.2/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 09/11/1974
  • Character: Taoist monk
Ghost Eyes concerns a female hair stylist who is seduced by the vampiric ghost of a former optometrist. Using supernatural contact lenses to control her mind, he gradually drains her life essence as she is forced to find new victims until tries to make a stand and rid herself of this terror once and for all.

Devil and the Ghostbuster

Devil and the Ghostbuster
5/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 28/01/1988
Beautiful Wan Wen Zheng plays a ghost bent on revenge. Originally killed while being raped, she gives supernatural fighting powers to a Kung Fu boxerin this rather slow, atmospheric, serious film.

Night of the Devil Bride

Night of the Devil Bride
5.6/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 15/03/1975
A wronged female ghost is out for revenge.

Lady Jade Locket

Lady Jade Locket
6.6/10
Love knows no limits in the grand period romance, Lady Jade Locket. A young fighter inadvertently falls for the spirit of a beautiful woman, who died years earlier avenging her own father's murder. The beautiful ghost is in fact the sister of his fiancee. Experienced as an actor in many such romances, director Yen Chuan keeps the tone perfect. Plus, with period specialist Li Li-hua in the lead and the attractive and acclaimed Li Ching playing the ghost girl, he really can do no wrong.

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