The House That Never Dies | |
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Directed by | Raymond Yip |
Written by | Manfred Wong |
Produced by | Manfred Wong |
Starring | Francis Ng Ruby Lin Monica Mok Tony Yang Qin Hailu |
Cinematography | Xu Xiao Giang |
Edited by | Li Gia Rong |
Music by | Chen Zhiyi |
Production companies | Heng Ye Film Distribution Co., Ltd China Film Group Co-production: Shanghai Creasun Media Chong Qing Film Group Shanghai Media Group (SMG) Perfect Sky Pictures TIK Films China Film Co., LTD Beijing Film Distribution Branch |
Distributed by | China Film Group |
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Running time | 90 min |
Country | China |
Language | Mandarin |
Budget | 100 million yuan[2] (US$16,000,000) |
Box office | 407 million yuan[3][4] |
The House That Never Dies (simplified Chinese: 京城81号; traditional Chinese: 京城81號; pinyin: Jing Cheng 81 Hao) is a 2014 Chinese 3D thriller film directed by Raymond Yip. The story is based on that of a purportedly haunted mansion, Chaonei No. 81, which is located on No.81 Chaoyangmen Inner Street in Beijing, China.[5]
The Chaonei No. 81 was a three-story French Baroque-style house which was built in the 1800s by Qing officials. Legend says that the house became haunted after the end of the Chinese Communist Revolution in 1949, when the wife of a Kuomintang official who once lived there committed suicide. It is believed that her spirit still haunts the house.