A Shaw Bros effort that somehow manages to rip off both Les Diaboliques and Kwaidan at the same time! An awful husband is killed and dumped in a lake, wife is scared to death by his "ghost". Of course, this is just an elaborate setup so that the real haunting can begin. The film flips the tables on you a couple more times though, but is somehow still quite uneventful for long periods of time. Hex is also a film made to please those of you that thought Kwaidan suffered greatly from its lack of boobs. The blind Hoichi is replaced with a chick wiggling her tits at the screen for half an hour or so, before she too looses her ears. I guess this made the story easier to relate to for the Hong Kong audience or something. The visuals of Shaw productions of the era always looked amazing, Hex being no different, but the film as a whole is a rather forgettable affair. I hear the sequels are spectacularly silly though.
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