Usually, the corpse is infected with ptomaine or the geomantic properties of the cemetery, which leads to the degeneration of the corpse. Keep your hands straight forward and your legs jumping, so that the walking dead can't move except the head and limbs. The pioneering work of zombie film is Mr. Zombie, a well-known classic film by Ching-Ying Lam, a famous Hong Kong film actor.
The origin of zombies
1974, Shaw Pictures and a British company co-produced a film "Seven Corpses of Gold", which is a film that combines the western vampire and the legend of "Xiangxi corpse", which attracted much attention at that time, but unfortunately it was neither fish nor fowl. At the same time, there was a movie called "The Zombie Boxing of Maoshan", which was shot by Liu Jialiang, but it was actually a packaged martial arts film.
In the early 1980s, new directors headed by Dennis Yu, Xu Anhua and Yu Rentai made some ghost films, such as Deadly List, Destiny, Intimidation and so on. The style was refreshing and the audience responded enthusiastically.
At the same time, Sammo Hung's "Ghost" series, which combines the elements of kung fu comedy and ghosts, created the trend of "fantasy kung fu movies" and was extremely popular at the box office. At this point, it opened a precedent for ghost movies in Hong Kong, and zombie movies at this time were still rare.
Just at this time, Yu Rentai made a film "Ghost Chasing Seven Heroes", which tells the story of the corpse driver in Xiangxi. Among them, Zheng Zeshi, Chen You and Xu Guanying played the plot of Mr. Corpser vs. Zombies, which inspired Sammo Hung and others.