1980 My Entertainment Era

Chapter 368: Vampires are appearing!

"Hurry, hurry! It's over there, Sai Kung Tai Ping Village!"

An older paparazzi pointed at a road sign on the side of the road and urged the young paparazzi who was driving to drive faster.

If you go too late, the news may be snatched away by someone else.

However, the young paparazzi driving the car was reluctant because he was afraid!
This time they received news that a strange incident had occurred in Saigon - livestock were frequently killed, and the way they died was very strange, they were actually sucked dry of blood!

This is not the end. Some locals have even seen terrifying ghosts in the dilapidated church that was abandoned decades ago.

And there was also a local young man who was very kind and took a camera and took a blurry and terrible photo!
Now, the rumor that there is a ghost there, and that it is a Western ghost, has spread.

Although it hasn't appeared in the newspapers yet, well-informed paparazzi have already gotten the news and rushed over overnight to get the first bite of the melon.

It was still relatively early when the two paparazzi, one old and one young, arrived.

They asked along the way and found the gloomy and dilapidated church.

It has two and a half floors and occupies a large area, but it has been in a state of disrepair for a long time - the roofs of many rooms have collapsed, and some corridors have fallen down, making it impossible to walk through.

You know what, this place is really eerie!

And if you stay there for too long, you'll feel dizzy and have waves of chills.

The old paparazzi has been in the business for more than ten years and is quite experienced.

First, take various photos from various angles, and then visit with local people.

"Auntie, when was the abandoned church at the foot of the mountain built?"

The auntie looked surprised and asked, "Why are you always asking this? This is the third wave today. The church has a long history. My father said that it was already like this when he was a child..."

Anyway, this church was built during the colonial era, but then it was abandoned for some reason.

It is said that something very bad happened...

Afterwards, I asked the old people, middle-aged people, young people and children around the village, and they all had different opinions.

The old man said: This kind of thing of seeing Western ghosts and livestock being killed seems to be not the first time. I remember it happened once when I was a child?
At that time, my father moved to the city with our whole family and lived there for more than a month. Later, he came back after his problem was said to have been solved.

The middle-aged people said: That place is evil, no one has dared to go there for so many years. A child disappeared in that place a few years ago and has not been found until now.

The young people were very excited: We went exploring after the accident. The photo you saw was taken by a friend of a friend. Let me tell you, it was super scary...

The child started crying loudly as soon as he was mentioned!

The young paparazzi was afraid of ghosts to begin with, and he came reluctantly for that very reason, and now he is even more hesitant.

After all, making money is important, but being scary is also really scary!
The old paparazzi was so excited - it works! Big news!
No, we must report it before our peers!
Of course, there were also paparazzi who got the news and even conducted more detailed investigations.

Someone else bought the photo which was not very clear - a ghost figure wearing a tattered cloak, with shining eyes and a face similar to that of a ghost, and it seemed to have fangs, but it was not very clear and a bit blurry!

...In less than three days, the news was in the newspaper, and within another two days, it became hot news.

There are even many believers who have some spare time and drive there with their friends to explore.

The locals' statements were becoming more and more detailed, saying that something happened decades ago, and that it was resolved by a Taoist priest, who was seriously injured in the end...

The Taoist priest may have left some instructions at the end, but it has been so many years that they have been lost.

Then "There is a vampire haunting Tai Ping Village in Sai Kung, and a powerful wizard is urgently needed to subdue it" became a popular urban story!

Various stories were added one after another, making the details more and more substantial. Even in the process of spreading, new versions and variants were spontaneously derived, some of which conflicted with each other, and different communicators often accused each other of talking nonsense!
There are actually local metaphysical wizards who claim that they want to form a team to exorcise evil spirits~ They really know how to ride on the popularity!
Then the screenwriter of "One Eyebrow Taoist" Mr. Shen stood up and accepted an interview with the paparazzi.

Then everyone discovered that Shen’s childhood classmate was from Taiping Village. He had heard this story since he was a child and told it to Shen.

It's just that the person died before he grew up, but this story has always been in the mind of screenwriter Shen.

The movie "One Eyebrow Taoist" is adapted based on this story prototype!

As I said before, the box office of ghost films has declined particularly severely due to excessive trend following.

The promotion of supernatural films in the past two years has had no effect.

But now, the upcoming "The Taoist Priest" has become a hit.

Nowadays, whenever the "Saigon Vampire Incident" is mentioned in various tabloids, it is inevitable to mention this new movie by Uncle Nine.

The publicity effect is unconscious!
Now Uncle Jiu can't sleep every night. His home has accumulated a thick stack of tabloids and magazines, all of which are about the "Saigon Vampire Incident" and the promotion of "The Taoist Priest".

Too excited to sleep!
At the beginning, when Xia Tian told Uncle Jiu about his plan for "play outside the play", he was shocked: No, is this really possible?

However, the film's producer Cai Lan was astonished after a brief moment of shock!

Cai Lan was born in Chaozhou and grew up in Southeast Asia, receiving traditional Chinese education since childhood.

Because of his father's relationship with Uncle Shaw, he was exposed to movies since he was a child. He published his first film review at the age of 14 and started working for Shaw Brothers at the age of 16. Later, he went to Japan to study directing and writing. Later, he settled in Hong Kong and worked in related industries. He was known as the "Four Talents of Hong Kong".

He very keenly understood the essence of Xia Tian’s publicity plan for this “play outside the play” - it grasped human nature!
Human beings are very complicated. Many times they cannot move forward and are even forced to move backwards.

So how do we use people?
Just like the summer plan, let them “generate” ideas on their own and then believe in them!
All they did in the summer was choose a suitable location and then cooperate with the local village chief - it was nothing more than money and vision.

Sai Kung is remote and Tai Ping Village is even more ordinary, belonging to the rural area of ​​Hong Kong.

And summer painted a big pie for the village chief - tourism industry!

That's right, who says that if a place is haunted, it can't develop tourism? At least Xia Tian's words fooled the old village chief into limping.
Although the 20,000 yuan in cash is good, it cannot compare to the future development of the village!

If the village can really benefit from the "bonus" he mentioned, then perhaps it will be able to develop!
So, he made up stories, told stories, and even found Li Heizi in the summer, bought materials in Hong Kong, and forged an "Ancient Village Chronicle" from seventy years ago as a family heirloom, vaguely recording this "Western Zombie Incident."

He also asked Uncle Jiu to put on makeup and hang out there, and then he was "coincidentally" photographed by a few young people.

Throughout the whole process, only the old village chief knew the whole story.

Others, whether it was the old man who was guided to "recall" his childhood memories, or the young man who took the photo, all believed the "brain supplement" in their minds under the guidance!
Therefore, Taiping Village has its own memory point and its own history~
Because the villagers' performance was too realistic, and the abandoned church was also decorated - the cold and chilly~
The genuine performance from the old to the young fooled all the paparazzi.

Since everyone thinks it is true, it naturally cannot be false!

This is the essence of propaganda.

People in Hong Kong are extremely superstitious. Many people have to check the almanac before going out, and go to the temple to burn incense when they have nothing to do.

If your career is not going well, you beat up the bad guys. If you want to start a company, you need to hire a Feng Shui master. If you want to be famous, you raise a ghost...

If this happened in the inland, you definitely wouldn't do this. It would be promoting feudal superstition, creating mass incidents, and having bad intentions, which would be a serious matter!

Of course, this kind of film is not allowed to be made in the inland areas.

"The Taoist with One Eyebrow" took advantage of the huge popularity of "real supernatural events", and the effect has been achieved!
On July 7, the midnight premiere of "The Taoist Priest"

(End of this chapter)