Where Got Ghost?
2009 film by Jack Neo
Where Got Ghost? (traditional Chinese: 嚇到笑; simplified Chinese: 吓到笑; pinyin: Xià Dào Xiào) is a 2009 Singaporean anthology comedy horror film directed by Jack Neo and Boris Boo. This film is Neo's first attempt with horror flicks.
Plot
Roadside Got Ghost
Swindlers Lee Ah Cai (or simply Cai), Fu and Shou are returning to Cai's house after a successful scam under a guise of a religious priest. Cai becomes hungry and tells his accomplices to buy him some food and fruits while he returned home. As it is late at night and they are too lazy to walk to the shops upon realizing that they forgot to buy fruits, Fu and Shou decide to steal some oranges from the roadside, placed there as offerings during the Hungry Ghost Festival. Cai eats the oranges and complains that they are tasteless. Meanwhile, Cai receives a phone call claiming that he won a first-class return ticket to the United States from a lucky draw, which Cai scolded the caller and hanged up the call.
Later, the three men devise a new scheme - they would make phone calls from the phone book and each person they called would receive a random 4D lottery number, with enough calls to cover every possible combination from 0000 to 9999. Those who win the lottery are required to pay 20% commission to Cai under a guise of a temple construction or fall victim to harassments from loansharks and thugs.
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