TILL DEATH DO WE SCARE
(小生怕怕)
Dir. Lau Kar-wing, 1982
Hong Kong. 91 min.
In Cantonese with English subtitles.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8 - 7:30PM
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17 - 10PM
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25 - 7:30PM

Irene (Olivia Cheng) is chronically unlucky in love, having already lost three husbands to various Rube Goldberg-esque wedding day mishaps while still in her youth. Worried that she may be slipping into a suicidal depression– which in turn would mean there would be no one left to pray for or provide offerings to them– the ghosts of her three husbands assume the role of supernatural matchmaker, conspiring to set her up with the bumbling host of a local radio horror show (Alan Tam) while trying to temper their own jealousies.

TILL DEATH DO WE SCARE was an early release by Raymond Wong, Karl Maka, and Dean Shek’s newly-formed Cinema City production company, boasting a script from future hesuipian heavyweight Clifton Ko (IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD), and directed by martial arts icon Lau Kar-wing (ODD COUPLE). Yet despite all the local talent involved in its production, the most curious credit found on this slapstick/rom-com/action/horror hybrid comes courtesy of special effects maestro, Tom Savini. As the story goes, Savini traveled to Hong Kong with the film’s original VFX artist to assist with the production, inadvertently resulting in the firing of the original artist and the hiring of Savini, for what turned out to be one of the more chaotic productions with which he’d been involved.

“It was a very frantic shoot, because, in order to start a fog in a scene, they’d start a fire in a wastebasket, put a lid on it, and take the lid off when they wanted to fill the room with smoke. \\\[…\\\] It was great fun improvising those effects.”
– Tom Savini