This hilarious, low-budget comedy horror both mocks and revels in traditional Cantonese ghost lore. Three unrelated short stories are presented back-to-back. First, a young TV star (Ling Man-lung) accidentally kills his co-star (Chung Suet-ying) while drunk driving. Second, a frustrated young lover (So Chi-ho) finds his girlfriend (Ashina Kwok Yik-sam) possessed by a “horny ghost”. Third, an adorable little girl ghost (Wong Piu Yan) haunts a shopping centre, and refuses to leave, even as it’s closed down.

One of the film’s striking features is how young the whole cast is: one of the only things that links the three stories. The film mostly gets away with it, except for the first story, which depicts an entire crew for a hit TV show in their early twenties. In terms of style, the film has more in common with Hong Kong television than Hong Kong cinema, and is clearly aimed at a younger crowd.

But where the comedy really sings is when director Wong Hoi chooses to tone down the camp, and go after understated performances. When an amateur shaman (Hui Yin) is splatted by an endless stream of jade-green ghost vomit, he is hilariously non-plussed. It’s also laugh-out-loud funny to watch an entire TV crew deadpan working with a ghost, rather than running away from it.

It’s not high art. But there is something artistic about the way this charmingly silly movie draws on Hong Kong’s unique East-meets-West culture, for this idiosyncratic trio of ghost stories.

Screened by Focus Hong Kong at the British Film Institute (BFI).