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Bookmark this pageBlood Reincarnation (1974)
Director: Ding Shanxi
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
An anthology of three ghost/horror stories, each of them something of a tour de force. The first is gutsy and visceral: a wronged woman returns to haunt the couple who killed her while the wife is in labour. The second is played for black laughs: a drowned husband gets his revenge on his wife and her lover by haunting them as a water spirit (amazing scenes when the lover can't stop drinking, and then can't stop peeing). And the third is sad and elegiac: an unjustly executed acupuncturist uses a 'blood reincarnation' spell to live on as a spirit in order to complete his medical text-book. Horror movie fans will emerge rejuvenated.Author: TR
Cast & crew
Director: Ding Shanxi
Producer: Yu Feng-Chih
Cast: Yang Qun, Tang Baoyun, Suzy Mang, Henry Yue Young, Dean Shek, Shih Tien, Shirley Huang full cast
Genre(s): Horror
Duration: 99 mins
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