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ACTOR
Anthony Chau-Sang WongMichelle WaiJojo GohKa Tung Lam
DIRECTOR
Herman Yau
SYNOPSICS
Shi mian (2017) is a Cantonese,Japanese movie. Herman Yau has directed this movie. Anthony Chau-Sang Wong,Michelle Wai,Jojo Goh,Ka Tung Lam are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2017. Shi mian (2017) is considered one of the best Horror movie in India and around the world.
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Shi mian (2017) Reviews
This is the Evolution of Slasher Movie! Great!
Dir.Harman Yau is one of important genre filmmakers in Hong Kong. This film is part of Anthony Chau-Sang Wong's cult splatter/slasher films. Such as "Ebola Syndrome"(HK, 1996), ''Taxi Hunter'' (HK, 1993) and "The Untold Story" (HK, 1993). Contrary to other three cult bloody slashers, The Sleep Curse(HK, 2017) is not only historically meaningful, but also it is emotionally impressive to the certain extent. This is actually not a kind of porno of violence. There are several points for this. 1. The innocent translator for Japanese occupational force, Lam Sing is actually a good man who saves several comfort girls from the imperialists. Lam Sing is virtually and humanistically well depicted. Unfortunately he gets cursed by a soothsayer's single- eyed daughter who misunderstands him. This curse involves generational tragedies that finally makes the protagonist Lam Sik-ka a mad at the end of the film. 2. Two thirds of the film is about historical tragedies of the two traitors' families (Lam family and Chow Fook family) from the WW2 period to the 1990s. What we see are emotional responses to these karma effects to these cursed generations of the two families. 3. The curse is more severe grudge against all generations of the targeted families. It is harsher than Japanese horror film The Grudge (2002).However, this film is also affected by The Grudge franchise. It also embodies the concept of the film that the Evil must deserves the karma. If there is still nothing at the moment. It must have it later. And it is unavoidable. In conclusion, you can not expect full range of porno of violence like the past. This is seriously full of emotional and historical responses to the tragedies. It is quite impressive even to Japanese viewers. This is actually marked the evolution of the Hong Kong and Asian horror films. Thank you, Mr.Wong! Thank you all for making this well made horror genre film! 10 Stars!
No horror. Bad script. Horrible execution.
3 stars here! Watch the movie and figure it out yourself, that is if you can last all the way through. I watched it with 2 friends, all of us begging for the movie to hit its climax and finish. And that was a mistake right there. Because when it does so, it goes full on gore, jumping from history lessons about the war to lets cut some organs, eat some flesh and be as disgusting as possible. The movie focuses on two time periods, both equally boring and gross when the time comes. I have no idea how this got into production but if it will go without people noticing it, I won't act surprised. Sorry but they failed here. Bad! Really bad ghost story, mostly about vengeance, told in the worst possible way. I won't recommend it. Stay away. Cheers!
Terrible
It's pretty much an hour and 10 minutes of set-up and much boringness for 20 minutes of pretty tame gore at the end. All these pointless scenes and set-up for literally no pay off. Nothing gets resolved, no explanation of why Dr dude did what he did at the end. Honestly the most compelling part of the movie was with the main character's father in flash backs. I think if the movie was focused more on the Japanese invasion you'd have an interesting movie but honestly the stuff you see in flash backs has nothing to do with what happens in the present besides the whole 'curse' thing but even that doesn't get any spotlight in the present outside of a few jump scares of a dead girl à la the grudge, which did it much much MUCH better. Present guy has literally ZERO effects of the curse that made his father crazy through the entire movie, nothing about him not being able to sleep or being super nutso but he ends up crazy anyways? I think mainly it's the editing to blame because it's very choppy story-wise. The past segments are very well thought out and you get much more information but the present parts really are a jumbled mess with no explanation. Buddy goes from totally normal to psychotic in the span of 30 seconds for no reason nor do we get an explanation why. I really feel like they should delete all the present parts and re-do it only focusing on the past with the war, the sisters and what they went through. That would've been a good movie. Quite frankly the flash back part should've been the entire movie. The present part of the movie was just awful. An old man pawning after a woman at least half his age and she has zero interest in him, so he tortures her with sleep deprivation and eats her? Wtf? We see zero effects of the guy not sleeping like what happened to his father nor any explanation of why not sleeping makes you eat yourself. It just doesn't make sense at all and I love me some wonky horror movies but this one is just so unsatisfying. There wasn't enough time spent learning about the sisters. No information given about the curse magic their father is teaching one of them, just nothing. So much time is spent focusing on characters that really have nothing to do with the main plot of the movie. I'm not sure if it got chopped up so bad in editing or what but there isn't a lot of continuity in this movie. It feels like two different movies spliced together with the same main character so it ends up just really not fitting in together. Honestly the best part of the movie was seeing a dick, which was a pleasant surprise cause we don't get enough full frontal male nudity in movies it's always boobs or lady butt gross. If you're in the mood for foreign horror watch Martyrs, Tale of two sisters or Audition or something. This one is hot garbage and the gore wasn't even good enough to call it torture porn. Hard pass.
Good CAT III movie throwback
If you love The Untold Story or Ebola Syndrome two of the best CAT III movies ever made both directed by Herman Yau and starring Anthony Wong you gonna have a blast with The Sleep Curse.The movie is cliché and rely heavily on flashback scene but over the top element of a proper CAT III still there like over the top gore and long disturbing sequence.I enjoy the movie for what it is but at the same time disappointed when it not go all the way like i expected