Greedy Ghost
Boris Boo
This tedious morality tale about people who are irritants has few scares and fewer laughs.
Lim (Taiwan’s Kang Kang) stumbles across a manuscript with seemingly empty pages. After being harangued by the spirit within it (Mark Lee), Lim decides to bet on the numbers given to him, not realising that he has to pay a high price for his lottery winnings.
Meanwhile, his two layabout friends whose only discernible job is to occasionally dig up old graves end up stealing from one.
Malaysia’s Brendan Yuen overacts as the greedy and all-round nasty piece of work that is Huat. Henry Thia is at least mildly amusing as the devout Buddhist who obsessively arranges his remaining few strands of hair.
Pity Jesseca Liu who is stuck in the thankless role of Huat’s doormat girlfriend. Her character even gets molested by the female ghost incongruously named Madam Butterfly.
Add to the mess a script in which the repartee descends to the level of “you eat s***”, “no, you eat s***”, and the horror is complete.
(ST)