Chinese horrors

Beautiful windy Saturday morning made me sleepy and didn’t want to wake up, but finally did after mum shouted to wake me up and HL’s wake-up phone call which I requested night before.

Left at about 8.30am and went there by bus with Heng Li, then reached Summit exactly 5 minutes before 9 and spotted Andy. As usual, punctuality doesn’t run in our lines so other BOD members of our Leo Club arrived much much later, despite telling us repeatedly “Must be punctual! Don’t be late!”

Yeah right.

So we were there for the Leo Leadership Seminar 2005, organised by SMKSJ, from 9am-1pm. Technical errors delayed the entire thing, and it actually only started at 10am. Had I known it’ll start that late I wouldn’t have to wake up at 7.30 >_< The seminar wasn’t particularly enlightening, and one speaker had a horrible Chinese-influenced English (“satuhdeey!”) but the only noteworthy activities (there were only 3) were:

- tag the person you dislike, and all of us ended up tagging behind Farrael, our President, and I pitied him at that point actually. But it was a touch? as the speaker told us that whatever we dislike actually mirrored us. Haha!

- talk about what you would like to achieve before next April.

What I was looking forward to was watching some movies. But the BOD meeting after the seminar stalled it, and in the end we can’t watch Samara. So we bought the tix anyway – Kean Leong, HL, Suet (and Barry), and me. We bumped into Xin Hui, Teck Seng and the rest of the Chinese gang after we bought the tix, and Teck Seng conveniently told us the ending of the very show that we were about to watch (SPOILERS AHEAD): in the end, everyone dies. I hate to listen to spoilers of stuffs I haven’t read/watch, so it was a bit of an annoyance, but again, there’s nothing I can do about it..so we went into the cinema.

I am the world’s biggest skeptic and critic of Chinese horror movies (had watched more than enough to know 99% of them are atrocious), and I thought this would be good since Andy’s sis thought so (and TS thought otherwise).

How wrong I was. The problem with this movie is, it doesn’t concentrate on scaring you silly. In fact, it’s littered with STUPID scenes that make you laugh, and it destroys the entire film completely. Imagine this scene near the end: two idiots, a guy and a girl, wishes for death literally to go into the “limbo” world, and when encountering other ghosts, one commented that they’re cute. No, worst part has yet to come; for fuck’s no why, their smelly breath SCARED the stupid ghosts away..and when they’re out of breath, what can one do? Yes, they fart. It was too ridiculous that it’s HILARIOUS and effectively kills whatever spookiness the movie held before.

Dear good lord of all spooky shows. I can’t scare myself silly after that ;_;

The actors for the minor characters were horrible, and they consist of old ladies and men. When encountering a ghost, these bunch of old ladies stretched their mouths opened and looked like they were about to laugh. Dammit, hire some proper senior actors! The only part I liked about the entire movie was during the beginning when they introduced the actors one by one, and that is saying something.

The movie reminded me of the worst Chinese horror movie I’ve ever watched: The Park. You are supposed to wear 3D glasses in the cinema..so we did, and those supposedly 3D scenes only appeared several times. The story was about this girl looking for his brother who was lost in a theme park, and she was helped by her friends..and one by one all DIED and when the girl was finally left alone..it appears that the brother was still ALIVE because ALL OF THEM, each and every one of the idiotic characters, wanted to teach the girl a lesson and in the end..everyone was alive and well. Each stinking one.

So the ending sucked. There were some scary bits but the ending kills them all. Stupid Chinese horror movies.

In the end..Japanese horror shows are still the scariest. Followed by Thai and Western ones. I’ve yet to watch Korean ones >_>