In this film by Chih-Hung Kuei (Ghost Eyes, Virgins of the Seven Seas), three stories of the supernatural are told. It started as 45 minutes of footage and then became an anthology film, with the original footage being the third episode.

In the first story, “The Haunted House,” finds Li (Chung Wang) and Wang (Locke Hua Liu) taking a bet — Castle of Blood-style — with their friend Chou (Wei Szu) that they will all stay overnight in what is said to be a haunted house. Each of them has a plan to frighten the others, but everything backfires and they all die, potentially being the spirits that haunt the next person to take this dare.

The second story, “The Cold Skeleton,”is about a mother and her son Chang Sung-Ken (Lin Wei Tu) who sell flowers in the village. They have a bond that goes beyond death, as she has promised him that she would come back when she passes on to be there for him. Her body keeps showing up again and again, even after he keeps reburying her. The secret? In his sleep, he’s been digging her up so she can come back home. He joins her in death by committing suicide.

In the final episode, “Wolf Of Ancient Times,” a college student named Sung Li Ho (Hong Hoi) and his assistant keep getting kicked out of different places because the scholar — bucktoothed and on the make, like a mix between a Jerry Lewis character and the protagonist of a nude-cutie — keeps attacking women. They finally make their way to a woodcutter’s house in the fog, where he has two gorgeous daughters who team up to seduce the student, yet before they do the deed, they reveal themselves as jiangshi, or the traditional Chinese hopping vampires. Luckily, the assistant is prepared with a charm around his neck! This was going to be called The Sex Wolf if it had been a full feature.

I love that each of these stories switch tones, whether that means that they’re like an EC Comics story, a poignant story about grief or almost a parody of sex films that ends with the intrusion of the unknown.