I reckon there's a reasonable chance David Lai got hooked on crack between the filming of the first film in the series and this thing right here. Similar to the first Possessed, the first third of Possessed II is a quite ordinary tale of possessions, black magic and spooky shit (mind you there's no continuity between the two films). A miserable couple and their kid move in to a flat haunted by a shitton of ghosts, and their marriage suffers even more as a result. The wife gets pregnant, has a ghost-related incident leading to miscarriage (a rather bloody such, taking place in a dirty stairwell) and the husband gets pissed off. What follows is a bunch of wacky incidents - perhaps most noteworthy is the one where their daughter turns into a levitating, green vampire and beats up a fat bully. Mr. Husband, however, does only realize that something is horribly wrong, after his wife starts showing him affection and cooks him dinner. Still, this is only what happens in the rather ordinary introduction of the film. His wife also starts luring random men to their doom by: (1) magically seducing them, (2) turning into a hairy dog-woman (with gyrating, hairy dog boobs) and (3) eating them. Furthermore, we find a comedic, botched exorcism attempt, involving copious amounts of feng shui, mahjong and dog-blood.
This is of course where the film flips the tables on you, David Lai loses his shit and all conventions go down the drain. A bunch of western Hare Krishnas followers suddenly enter the fray, and explain that all of this is happening because a dude called Tim Burton dumped a chick (rather bluntly) ages ago. The film is no longer about saving its shitty lead characters, but rather the newly introduced Tim Burton (who we get to see in a photo). The Hare Krishnas came prepared and brought a shitload of high tech computers, tazer-traps, magic needles and a Ganesha-truck. The Ganesha-truck has a container on the back - complete with fire-breathing statue of Ganesha inside - and fulfils its role as baby-corpse incinerator really well. At a certain point, everything just explodes and the film ends. Of course, this is really just a fraction of what happens in Possessed II... It goes without saying that the drugs flowing through Hong Kong in the 80s was great - the same goes for the movie.
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