Synopsis
Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe (九层妖塔, 2015) is a Chinese action-adventure thriller you can watch online on iFILM. Directed by Lu Chuan, the film drops you into 1979: an explosion in China's Kunlun Mountains rips open a cave system and exposes fossils that don't match anything in the scientific record. Soldier Hu Bayi joins a paleontological expedition heading deeper into the range — past the point where maps are useful.
What they find underground is not a deposit of bones but the ruins of a city, one left behind by a civilisation that had already solved questions science is still asking. Then the darkness starts moving. Mark Chao and Yao Chen lead the cast through a film that mixes the look of a late-Maoist military picture with full-scale creature-feature mayhem — a combination that was new to Chinese blockbuster cinema at the time.
Based on a bestselling adventure novel series, the film leans hard into practical scale and atmospheric dread. Stream Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe (2015) online on iFILM.
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