Possession Street

Occupants of a mall must defend themselves and potentially the world when a shop owner accidentally breaches a supernatural barrier in their basement, releasing a mysterious gas that turns its victims into purulent, flesh-eating zombies. A very Hong Kong Taoist-inspired survival horror.

Once a popular commercial centre, Golden Treasure Plaza is now a rundown mall marked for demolition. Among its last remaining shopkeepers is Sam, an injured stuntman who runs a DVD store with virtually no clientele. One fateful day, when Sam’s beloved daughter Yan comes for a long overdue visit, a storeowner accidentally breaches a supernatural barrier in the mall’s basement. As the mysterious gas that turns its victims into purulent, flesh-eating zombies is released, a battle for Hong Kong’s survival begins. 

In his inaugural feature Possession Street, Jack Lai weaves concepts from Taoist philosophy of mind and body into an intense survival horror that, at the same time, taps into – and pays homage to – the old-school Hong Kong popular cinema. The film plays around with the genre rules, mixes, shakes and stirs the familiar formulae and adds timely doses of humour and melodrama. 

Beneath its guts and puss, however, Possession Street lies a touching family melodrama mixed with a poignant social allegory.  Balancing hair-raising thrills with surprising character development, Lai fashions a work that is as adept at tugging at heartstrings as it is at biting the flesh.

– Srikanth Srinivasan

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