Palace of the Damned (2013)
Shen gong yuan ling
87 min
Following in the footsteps of her late fiancée, who drowned under mysterious circumstances, Rebecca (played by Katie Savoy) and her film crew are in China making a documentary about the Chinese Ghost Festival. There, she learns of a story about a concubine Chan Ju Chi who is violently murdered and thrown into a well by the head concubine Ping Wei (Played by JuJu Chan) within the secret grounds of a palace. Legend has it that the Chan Ju Chi has risen to become a "jiangshi", killing innocent people in the hope of taking over their bodies. Things take a turn when a worker is attacked in a decrepit well within an old palace. Rebecca tries to piece together the mystery behind the legend as one by one the people she knows are gruesomely murdered.
- Release date
- January 1, 2013
- Country of origin
- China, United Kingdom, United States
- Music
- Longan So
- Box office
- $547,134
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Cast
- Katie Savoy as Rebecca
- Catherine Siggins as Ashley
- Kerem Bürsin as Adam
- James Taku Leung as Wong
- JuJu Chan Szeto as Ping Wei
- Drae Williamson as Diane
- Wenjie Wang as Ping Wei's brother
- Rayve Tay as The Director
- Yixin Li as Chan Ju Chi
- Arran Hawkins as David
- Jade Lam as Yana
Crew
- Antony Szeto · Director
- Frances Doel · Writer
- Min Wu · Writer
- Roger Corman · Producer
- Henry Luk · Producer
- Longan So · Composer
- Cameo Chen · Cinematographer
- Zhao Hua Zhang · Cinematographer
- Antony Szeto · Editor
- Ken Yu · Editor
- Rachel Lee Payne Darrow · Production designer
- Carey Rothman · Production designer