Naturally, there are many movies made but due to many
reasons; they could not make it to the big silver screen. One of these movies
is the story concerning 9-tailed-fox spirit. The reason as told by my Hong Kong
friend who was once active in movie industry was that 6 of the movie crews were
killed throughout the making of this particular movie. Rumour has it that the
death of movie crews was attributed to the doings of the 9-tailed-fox spirit
because it didn’t like its story to be viewed in public; of course we may not
know the truth behind such claim. Whatever reason that might be, the deaths did
put a halt on similar movies being produced in Hong Kong film industry.
Let us flashed back to early 90’s. As I was told; a famous
movie company of that time wanted to jump on the bandwagon of ghost fevers to
bag a fortune. So, the company gathered a group of movie crews to make the
movie possible in the shortest possible time. A scrip writer was hired to write
scripts, a director was hired to manage the filming of the movie, camera teams
were assembled and potential actors and actresses were also identified. It
looks everything was a go-go-go until…
First, the script writer was found dead while writing the
movie scripts in his house. The autopsy result showed that the cause of death
of this unfortunate gentleman was due to alcohol intoxication. Strange thing
was that; everyone thought this script writer never drinks alcohol. Since the
movie script was half done, another writer was asked to complete the task. This
incident has put a considerable delay in the movie shooting.
So, in order to make up for time lost; the filming director
was eager to start shooting. This said director worked extra hard and overtime
to see through all the movie shooting details. Late one night, the director
exited the filming company just past midnight with his new car. As his car
passed through a stretch of downhill curve which was just another 10 minutes’
drive from his house; the director’s car lost control and rammed into a truck
coming from the opposite direction. He suffered from serious head injury and
after struggling in the hospital for a week or so; he too kicked the bucket.
Now, with two persons related to this fox spirit movie killed;
there were some noises wanting the movie company to reconsider about making
such movie. After some considerations, since money was already invested; they
decided to press on. After all, no one believes in supernatural stuffs anyway.
So said, another film director was hired to replace the
deceased. Now that the movie shooting schedule has delayed twice, the filming
crews were under tremendous pressure to execute their tasks flawlessly. They
couldn’t make another mistakes again.
Maybe it was due to sheer pressure, the camera man got drunk
in a local pub and he eventually started a quarrel with a gangster. A fight
then entailed and this camera man was seriously hurt when a bear bottle struck
his head. This poor man was hospitalised but later pronounced brain death due
to some reasons.
With three deaths on record, naturally the filming crews
were afraid. But the management thought the latest death was another coincident
and to answer to the investors; the filming has to go on. Very quickly, a new
camera man was hired and business was as usual.
Somewhere in the middle of the film making, movie shooting
must be done outside of the company. The place was at a hill top at the
outskirt of Hong Kong and the shooting proceeded until night falls. With tired
bodies, the crews tugged themselves into two company vans; each with about 10
passengers. The weather was pretty bad as heavy rain started to pour. Just as
one of the vans was negotiating a sharp bend, it skidded and rammed upside down
into a deep drain.
A rescue team was quickly dispatched and one actor and two
actresses were found to have succumbed due to serious injuries and drowning; as
the drain was practically filled with rain water at that time.
Now that 6 lives were lost, whether if it was due to
coincidences or supernatural causes; the movie company had to make a decision
to pacify those rumours spread like wildfires. The decision then was to
temporarily halt this movie production until a more suitable timing. I was told
that this movie was never revived until today. I guessed the 9-tailed-fox
spirit finally won the battle against human kind and its secret is safe for
now!
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