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HKFanatic
5Sep12
Tsui Hark produces a supernatural love story for the ages, loaded with practical special effects and dizzying camera work reminiscent of Sam Raimi's "Evil Dead." Martial arts buffs won't likely be sated by the infrequent fight scenes, but "A Chinese Ghost Story" remains a landmark picture of its genre for embodying the relentless energy and creative filmmaking technique that defined the Hong Kong New Wave.
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Coheed 2.5
8Jun12
An utter beautiful and delirious film, folk legends blurring with the best of the 1980s aesthetic of Hong Kong cinema to create a standout of that era of the region’s film output. That it manages to feel like the Evil Dead 2 and then outdo it in its unadulterated energy is a cherry on top.
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Blake Barrington Ellis
19May11
Just watched this film... Some of the most inventive fantasy I have seen in a film. It would be an understatement to say this is a less adolescent Chinese equivalent to The Neverending Story; less epic but certainly just as committed to its vision of life as a beautiful, melancholy dream.
