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, Gabriel Harrison, Edward Mok, Nelson Ngai and Celia Sze. It was followed by '' A Wicked Ghost II: The Fear'' in 2000 and '' A Wicked Ghost III: The Possession'' in 2002.

Plot

Annie and three friends play a game of " contacting ghosts". While they are playing, Ming, Annie's boyfriend who is not involved in the game, sees a ghost and immediately stops them. After the three friends die under mysterious circumstances, Ming's sister, Cissy, is worried that something will happen to Ming, so she seeks help from her friend, Fa-mo, a drama teacher. In the meantime, Annie is possessed by a ghost, who tells Ming that Annie has three days to live. After doing some research, Ming and Fa-mo travel to an abandoned village and find Lee Keung, an old man who grew up there. He tells them about Cho Yan-may, a

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singer who was framed for

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and killed by the villagers. In the three days after her death, Cho's

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caused 66 villagers to die in unnatural ways. While drinking from a freshwater pool near the village, they see Cho's ghost in the water and believe that Cho's remains have ended up in the pool. Fa-mo and Ming figure out that Cho's ghost can "pollute" the water in the freshwater pool with her vengeful aura and cause people who drink from it to experience hallucinations and kill themselves. They manage to stop Cissy's fiancé, Jack, who is in a trance, from forcing Cissy to drink the water. When Ming dives into the pool to find Cho's remains, he passes through a supernatural portal and finds her body. She strangles him to death and his dead body surfaces. Upon realising that Ming is dead, Fa-mo rushes back to Jack's home and drinks the "polluted" water so that he can see Cho's ghost and confront her. When he hugs Cissy, whom he has a crush on, she transforms into Cho. He realises that it is an illusion, so he embraces her tightly. Thinking that they truly love each other, Cho's ghost spares them and disappears. When Jack regains consciousness, he is unhappy to see Fa-mo embracing his fiancée. Cho's ghost suddenly appears beside him and he screams.

Cast

as Fa-mo *

as Cissy * Gabriel Harrison as Ming * Edward Mok as Jack * Chow Yan-yan as Cho Yan-may * Nelson Ngai as Cho's husband * Celia Sze as Annie * Lui Tat as Lee Keung ** Cheung Yue-lee as Lee Keung (boy) * Lam Suk-yan as Biggie * Joseph Tang as Rubbish * Man Yeung as Big-B

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Wicked Ghost, A 1999 films Hong Kong supernatural horror films 1990s Cantonese-language films 1999 horror films 1990s Hong Kong films 1990s supernatural horror films