The Imp is a 1981 Hong Kong film

Cinema of Hong Kong

The cinema of Hong Kong is one of the three major threads in the history of Chinese language cinema, alongside the cinema of China, and the cinema of Taiwan...

 directed by Dennis Yu

Dennis Yu

Dennis Yu Yun-kong Dennis Yu Yun-kong Dennis Yu Yun-kong (余允抗_ is a Hong Kong film director active in the 1980s, and a crucial member of Hong Kong New Wave. He is most famous for directing horror movies. The Imp (兇榜, 1981), Yu's horror movie with strong influence of Roman Polanski, is widely...

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Plot

Keung has a pregnant wife but he has been unemployed for a long period. One day he has a new job as a security guard in a commercial building. But strange incidents start happening and his colleagues die in horrible ways one by one. A geomancer tells Keung that he will be the next victim and teaches him how to avoid the fate. But Keung begins to discover his wife's strange behaviors...

The movies mix the traditional ghost story with new cinematic techniques, which makes it a most realistic and breath-taking thriller at its time.

Cast

• Chan Shen
  Chan Shen
  Chan Shen was a Taiwanese born Hong Kong film actor. He is best known for his roles as gangsters or villains in Hong Kong action cinema in the 1970s....
  
   - Old uncle Han
• Kent Cheng
  Kent Cheng
  Kent Cheng Jak-si is a Hong Kong film and television actor. He has won twice the best actor award in the Hong Kong Film Awards.-Biography:...
  
   - Fatty
• Charlie Chin
  Charlie Chin
  Charlie Chin is a Chinese actor.He first had his period when he moved to Hong Kong with his family at an early age. At only 12 years of age Charlie moved to Taiwan to join Fu Xing Ju Xiao, a Peking opera school...
  
  
• Wong Ching - Mr. Hong Kong
• Yueh Hua (credited as Wah Ngor)
• Yu Yi-ha