Seeding of a Ghost
Seeding of a Ghost is a 1983 film from Hong Kong, directed by Kuen Yeung, running 88 minutes. reelscum files it under splatter and occult & satanic panic.
- Year
- 1983 · 1980s films
- Country
- Hong Kong
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Director
- Kuen Yeung
- Updated
- 10 Aug 2026
- Obscurity
- obscure (65/100)
- Also known as
- Black Magic 5 · Seeding of a Ghost
Defined in the glossary: Splatter, Occult & satanic panic
Ninety minutes of restrained Shaw revenge, then twenty of rotting-corpse insanity.
A Shaw Brothers black-magic revenge picture that plays it almost straight until it very much does not. A cab driver whose wife is raped and killed hires a wandering sorcerer to get even, and for a while it behaves like a moody supernatural drama. Then the last reel arrives and the film detonates into some of the most deranged gore the studio ever printed: liquefying corpses, maggots by the fistful, and a monstrous birth that has to be seen. The build is patient and the payoff is completely unhinged, and the last twenty minutes are the reason anyone remembers it.
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