"Zombie-Master" - the first Chinese horror film ever to be fully released in North America, or in other words, the first Chinese film to be fully released in North America.

In the previous life, "Hero" achieved considerable box office results in North America, but it was mostly because of Harvey's operation and the name of Quentin, and in this life, "Hero" failed to borrow strength from Quentin, and the box office performance was very average.

However, "Zombie-Master", also known as "Mr. Zombie", is different from "Hero", although it does not have such grand scenes and exquisite visual effects as "Hero", but it is a classic film that has established a sect in Chinese films. The behind-the-scenes workers, in the context of the booming development of Hong Kong films back then, just wanted to do something different, and I have to say that at this point, they succeeded.

"Mr. Zombie" has a complete character setting, a complete storyline, and a complete monster fighting system, while ensuring the integrity of these aspects, the film can also maintain a witty and humorous main tone, and what is even more rare is Lin Zhengying's perfect interpretation of the role in this movie, his expression, his voice, and his every move will give the audience great trust, so that the audience really believes that he knows how to destroy zombies, and makes the audience believe that he is really a zombie Taoist.

At the beginning, this film created many miracles in the field of Chinese films, single-handedly created a new sect in the fiercely competitive Hong Kong film industry, and now, this film is ready to be a blockbuster in the North American market!

Because it is an old movie, and it does not have actors familiar to North American audiences, there is no premiere of "Zombie-Master", but the first screening in the United States is scheduled at 0:00 a.m. New York time, as the premiere of the movie, and the North American audience has long been looking forward to this movie, so the attendance rate of the premiere has undoubtedly reached 100%.

As the distributor of the film in the North American market, Lucas personally came to the premiere, and he and several of his partners bought tickets through the ticketing system of Pastoral Films, to see what the North American audience thought of the film, and he needed to deduce the potential of the film through the observation of the audience.

The premiere of many movies can be guaranteed to be full, but this is not a box office hit, many movies have extremely poor stamina, and the box office and attendance began to plummet within a few days of release, so Lucas has no bottom on this movie, although he has some confidence, but he also wants to know how much potential this movie can have.

And how much potential a movie can have, mainly depends on the audience's reputation, if the audience shows great love for this movie, then this movie will definitely be a hit, if the audience does not buy the plot of the movie and many stalks, then there is no doubt that this movie will soon be on the street.

At midnight, the theater lights out on time, and the audience in the entire theater was looking forward to this old movie from Hong Kong, China, produced and produced in 1985.

The moment the movie screen was lit up, Jiahe's classic opening appeared on the big screen, and for the vast majority of North American audiences in the cinema, this was the first time they saw the company's opening screen.

After Jiahe is Baohe, after Baohe, there are four miserable green characters: Mr. Zombie.

Underneath these four Chinese characters is the English title, also written in a miserable green color: "Zombie-Master".

The miserable green text created a terrifying and weird atmosphere for the audience, which made all the audience start to get nervous and quickly enter a state of watching horror movies.

And when the title and cast and crew are introduced, the first scene of the film is a unique place in ancient Chinese and modern society - Yizhuang.

In the dilapidated room in the picture, there are a large number of coffins, and the apprentice played by Xu Guanying pushes open the door and walks into Yizhuang, lights a handful of incense, and calls for the ghosts in Yizhuang to eat.

And immediately after, he said: "You are a guest at the door, you eat first." ”

As soon as the words fell, he reached out and opened a white gauze tent, and as he opened the white tent, a row of zombies wearing Qing Dynasty official uniforms and yellow talismans on their foreheads appeared on the big screen in an instant.

If it was really the first time to see this scene, the audience would definitely be startled by the rows of zombies, but these audiences in North America who watched this movie for the first time immediately cheered in surprise when they saw this scene!

"China-Zombie!" I don't know which excited audience suddenly exclaimed, and there was a burst of applause and whistles in the theater!

Everyone has long been accustomed to seeing the cartoon version of Chinese zombies in "Plants vs. Zombies Online", and this time when I suddenly saw the film and television image of Chinese zombies on the big screen, instead of feeling scared, I felt very kind!

In fact, the audience who walked into this movie theater, except for a very small number of Chinese Americans who came to review the classics, other North American audiences, almost all of them came for this very distinctive Chinese zombie image, they have been particularly curious about this special zombie image when they played the game, and they were also particularly interested, and later saw some netizens on the Internet from the screenshots of the movie, and they were even more interested in these zombie images and zombie movies, so rows of Chinese zombies appeared just over a minute after the movie started, which is really very satisfying for them！

Subsequently, in the plot, Xu Guanying was grabbed by a "zombie" in a coffin, and then a "zombie" jumped out of the coffin, Xu Guanying hurriedly picked up the demon mirror in fright, and then counted the number of zombies.

At this time, the "zombie" suddenly spit out a pair of dentures from his mouth, and it turned out that the "zombie" was not a real zombie, but a junior brother played by Qian Xiaohao.

Although it was a false alarm, among the eight zombies in the back, several zombies had their foreheads accidentally knocked off, and then these zombies immediately regained their freedom and began to attack the two.

Immediately afterwards, the master of the two, that is, Lin Zhengying, appeared and easily solved the trouble of the zombies, this paragraph has a comedic effect, and the audience also bought the clips of such comedy processing, and finally all the zombies were solved and re-fixed by the Fu Seal, Lin Zhengying's junior brother took the eight zombies to get up and hurry, and when the eight zombies jumped and followed Lin Zhengying's junior brother out of the door, a burst of laughter broke out again in the screening room.

What's even more interesting is that there was a zombie who couldn't jump off the threshold no matter what, so Xu Guanying hurriedly came out to help, saying "Uncle, I'll help you", while holding the zombie and sending him out of the door.

At the end of the first unit of the small plot, the audience already has a very intuitive understanding of this kind of zombie, and then in the subsequent plot, Lin Zhengying was invited to help the businessman Ren Lao move the grave, during this period, Lin Zhengying mentioned the unique feng shui theory of China before the camera, and the interesting thing is that the word "feng shui" also has a certain influence in North America, and North America knows the "yin and yang" in Chinese culture, as well as "feng shui" , but the vast majority of people don't understand the details, Lin Zhengying briefly introduced some feng shui in the plot, this plot also makes the North American audience watch with relish, although they can't understand it, but they can know that the tombs in China also pay great attention to feng shui, good feng shui can bless future generations to prosper, and bad feng shui may bring disasters to future generations, and even mutate the corpse.

This kind of unique Chinese culture, after film and television processing, can easily let Western audiences see the characteristics and profundity of Chinese culture, Westerners do not have the so-called feng shui, in their culture, the most metaphysical legend is the night of the full moon, werewolves will mutate on the night of the full moon, vampires will also mutate on the night of the full moon, in addition, there are basically no other metaphysical legends.

The subsequent plot of "Mr. Zombie", through the corpse of Ren's father, combined with the plot, tells in great detail the reasons for the formation of zombies, as well as the way to deal with zombies, Lin Zhengying said that corpses are divided into zombies and dead corpses, people are divided into good people and bad people, people become bad people because they are not angry, and the reason why corpses become zombies is because of one more breath, people are angry, breathless, and sulking before they die, and this breath will make people continue to accumulate resentment after death, and eventually become zombies.

The saying of good people and bad people, dead bodies and zombies is very much the consistent philosophical truth of Chinese national culture, and these truths are said through Lin Zhengying's language, but Western audiences also recognize and secretly praise them in their hearts.

As for Lin Zhengying's practice of letting his apprentice use an ink fountain to pop out the grid on the coffin, it also opened the eyes of many audiences, in their eyes, this ink fountain should have a certain metaphysical factor, which is the spear and shield of Chinese legends.

There are also spears and shields in Western legends, but the overall rank is relatively low, such as vampires to cut off their heads, devils to fear holy water, werewolves to fear silver weapons, the whole is very simple;

The spear and shield in the Chinese zombie legend are very cumbersome, not only the existence of the zombie Taoist such a profession, but also the complex method of setting up the array, even if it is just to make an ink fountain, it requires chicken blood pen and ink, and then do it on these materials, and then pour it into the ink fountain to be able to play a role.

Although it seems tedious, when Lin Zhengying does these things, there is a kind of magic that can make the audience feel that all this he does is very convincing.

One of the very interesting things about this movie is that the comedy effect is particularly good, when the senior brother dealt with the coffin of Ren's father, Qian Xiaohao met the ghost bride who admired him on the way home, but the ghost bride sat on the back seat of his bicycle, but was hit by a branch, and when the ghost bride sat on the ground and was wronged, there was a laugh in the movie theater.

The structure of the film has always been interspersed with comedy-drama-comedy-drama, as soon as the funny plot of the ghost bride passed, Master Ren's father began to mutate, and Lin Zhengying's ink fountain also had a magical effect, so that zombies had nowhere to escape for the time being.

Subsequently, the two brothers arrived at Master Ren's house, but found that the cousin of Master Ren's daughter had coveted his daughter Ren Tingting for a long time, and the brothers united and used a small spell to pull out a hair from the cousin's head and add a talisman seal, turning the daughter's cousin and Xu Guanying into a pair of "dolls" who acted in unison.

This comedy plot is particularly exciting, the whole movie theater has laughed, this kind of "A" does what, "B" does what to do, has been played badly in Hong Kong movies, but for North American audiences, this is the first time to see it, so the audience also bought it.

Lucas saw the performance of the audience around him staring at each other and laughing constantly, and excitedly said to one of his partners: "Oh God, look at the performance of these audiences so far, I believe this movie will be a hit!"