| Out of the Dark | |||||||||||||||
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| Director: | Jeffrey Lau | ||||||||||||||
| Producer: | Mona Fong | ||||||||||||||
| Starring: | Stephen Chow Karen Mok Bryan Leung Wong Yat-fei Lee Lik-chi Carol Tam Ben Wong | ||||||||||||||
| Music: | Wu Wai-lap | ||||||||||||||
| Cinematography: | Wong Chi-wai (H.K.S.C) | ||||||||||||||
| Editing: | Kai Kit-wai | ||||||||||||||
| Distributor: | Cosmopolitan Film Productions | ||||||||||||||
| Runtime: | 86 minutes | ||||||||||||||
| Country: | Hong Kong | ||||||||||||||
| Language: | Cantonese | ||||||||||||||
| Gross: | HK$16,281,325 | ||||||||||||||
Out of the Dark (回魂夜; literal translation: "Night of Returning Soul") is a 1995 Hong Kong comedy horror film directed by Jeffrey Lau, starring Stephen Chow and Karen Mok.
Out of the Dark has earned a reputation as Stephen Chow's darkest film yet, adding brutal violence, gore, blood, and a wealth of black humour, including Chow's signature nonsense jokes.
The film is directed by Hong Kong director Jeffrey Lau. Chow plays Leo, a mental patient/ghostbuster who is a parody of the character Léon from the 1994 French film, The Professional, who talks to his plant for assistance, and co-starring Karen Mok as Kwan, a curious young girl who gets caught up with all the spooky situations. The pair are then joined by a brigade of quirky security guards in an attempt to get rid of the evil lurking in a supposedly haunted apartment building situated in Hong Kong.