{"id":18053,"date":"2025-10-29T20:00:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T00:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=18053"},"modified":"2025-10-29T18:42:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T22:42:27","slug":"out-of-the-dark-1995-jeffrey-lau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18053","title":{"rendered":"Out of the Dark (1995, Jeffrey Lau)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parody of <em>The Professional<\/em>, I think, but instead of a hit man Leon (Stephen Chow) is a crazy guy who sees ghosts.  Blondie from <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/16239\">Fallen Angels<\/a><\/em> is there, and Sammo Hung-reminiscent police captain Lo Hung (apparently no relation).  A very silly movie &#8211; not really sure how it escalates into cops getting chainsawed to death, it&#8217;s not important, nor should we interrogate why the survivors make magic hats out of newspaper and fly safely away from the evil ghost at the end.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/outdark1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/outdark2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/outdark3.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parody of The Professional, I think, but instead of a hit man Leon (Stephen Chow) is a crazy guy who sees ghosts. Blondie from Fallen Angels is there, and Sammo Hung-reminiscent police captain Lo Hung (apparently no relation). A very silly movie &#8211; not really sure how it escalates into cops getting chainsawed to death, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[451,110,32,3015],"class_list":["post-18053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1990s","tag-ghosts","tag-hong-kong","tag-jeffrey-lau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18096,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18053\/revisions\/18096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}