SEEDING OF A GHOST (Hong Kong, 1983)
Directed by: Richard Yeung
Starring: Norman Chu, Philip Ko, Maria Yuen

In the early Eighties, Hong Kongers didn’t want to see kung fu movies anymore, instead they wanted horror and action flicks from Hollywood. Shaw Brothers got wise and turned over the keys to their studio to a bunch of young punks who had some messed up ideas about moviemaking. One of these lunatics was Richard Yeung who starts off his Seeding of a Ghost at a sedate pace as taxi driver Chow (Phillip Ko) discovers that his wife is having an affair when she turns up dead. Determined to get revenge on the creeps who raped and murdered her, he hires a necromancer and that’s when we all take a one-way trip to Crazy Town. Taking a cue from John Carpenter’s The Thing, Yeung goes into special effects overdrive delivering killer babies, exploding wombs, and flying pregnant corpses at the speed of light. And, yes, by the time this movie is over a ghost has been seeded. Graphically.