Even stylistically, Erotic Ghost Story IIis quite different. For one it is determined to give much more full strength to the ‘ghost story’ aspect of the title. Erotic Ghost Story, as the title suggests, was an attempt to do A Chinese Ghost Story (1987) with erotic couplings. It never quite worked largely due to the fact that it was fairly vague about the fantasy element and because director Ngai Kai Lam directed the erotica with a clod-handedness. This, on the other hand, is much better budgeted and much more fantastically stylised. There is often something wonderfully lyrical to the film – the erotica comes all outlined against flowing silks, even blowing bubbles, and with Wu Xia images such as Shan-ken riding in to save the innocent May Law by swinging down on the end of a sapling to attack the demon with an axe, grabbing her and swinging back up again. The opening with lovers against silk flags, flames and swords sets up a magnificent image of the purity of the mortal realm being defended against a bestial carnal force. The climactic scene involves the heroine rescuing the hero by using her naked body to melt the block of ice he is trapped in, another girl distracting the demon by having sex with him underwater, and a finale when the demon strikes the heroine with a sword, releasing the soul of his beloved in a flame, which then rises up to embrace and engulf him. And as the reincarnated innocent, May Law provides a wonderful series of coy chaste expressions – she seems naiveté embodied.

It is also a film that has its fair share of totally demented moments. In one scene Wutung captures a female innocent and starts ravishing her. She responds by fellating him, while his thick corrugated tail, which is hidden in a little white fluffy rabbit’s tail, starts twitching in arousal, ending in a three-way with the girl riding him and his female demonic compatriot riding the tail. In another scene Wutung couples with a woman and becomes so carried away he severs her at the waist and keeps on fucking her detached legs. There’s an hysterical erotic set-piece that starts out with two girls making out and being joined by a guy in a scene that becomes increasingly more over the top – with silks billowing, bubbles blowing past and then an hilarious series of couplings set around a hanging rope arrangement, a table and a rocking platform with the girls swinging from a vertical pole to land onto the guy’s dick, while all the while the soundtrack is scored with an overtly comic series of whistles, percussive effects, creaking ropes and glasses rattling on the table.

This was followed by a further sequel Erotic Ghost Story III (1992). There was a fourth film Erotic Ghost Story – Perfect Match (1997), although this is an entry from another company posing as a sequel and is unrelated.