Out of the Dark

Out of the Dark (回魂夜, 1995) is a Hong Kong horror-comedy you can watch online on iFILM. Director Jeffrey Lau hands the lead to Stephen Chow, who plays Leon, a ghost hunter with a loose grip on his own sanity.

Leon is locked in a mental ward and perfectly fine with it — he'll walk out the moment someone needs him. That moment comes fast. A jittery crew of building security guards is on duty the night two murdered tenants come back for revenge, and Leon is their only hope. Bored out of her mind, a young woman named Kwan (Karen Mok) latches onto him, and the two chase spirits where slapstick and genuine scares keep colliding.

This is late-period Chow chaos: mo lei tau nonsense rammed up against real horror beats, with almost no way to guess what the next scene will throw at you. If you like nineties Hong Kong cinema that refuses to pick one genre, this one delivers. Stream Out of the Dark (1995) online on iFILM.