Tales from the Occult(HKIFF46)

From directors Wesley Hoi, Fruit Chan and Fung Chih-chiang comes a triptych of creepy tales about the horrors lurking in the darkest corners of the urban jungle. In Hoi’s The Chink, a pop star relives old traumas when spooky things happen in her new home. In Chan’s Dead Mall, an online influencer receives a surprise from his past. In Fung’s The Tenement, the residents of a tenement building battle a mysterious figure in the stairwell. By turns delightfully eerie and wickedly funny, this film breathes new life into Hong Kong’s long-dormant horror genre.