The Haunted School

The Haunted School

Year: 2007

Runtime: 85 mins

Language: Cantonese

Director: Cash Chin Man-Kei

Horror

The strict all‑girls Narranmoda Boarding School enforces rigid conduct rules, but the headmaster admits four male students to raise the school’s income. The boys are kept separate from the girls, watched by inspector Miss Fong and monitor Ho Yat‑Man. An urban legend claims the school is haunted: any student who breaks the rules is summoned to the director’s office and disappears, later found dead.

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1

Fire tears through Lap Lan Girls' School

Twenty years ago a devastating fire broke out on the school grounds, causing panic and evacuations. In the aftermath, a sense of dread settled over the campus as whispers of supernatural activity began to rise.

20 years ago Lap Lan Girls' School
2

Headmaster hangs himself

The headmaster hanged himself from a tree on the campus, shocking students and staff. The tragedy fed the growing gloom and connected to the earlier fire in unsettling ways.

20 years ago Lap Lan Girls' School
3

A student commits suicide by jumping from the building

A student leapt from the school building, adding to the pattern of unexplained deaths that haunted the campus. The incident deepened the sense that the school is cursed and watched by unseen forces.

20 years ago Lap Lan Girls' School
4

A silhouette appears on the wall near the staircase

After each disappearance, a shadowy silhouette materializes on the wall near the staircase and seems to linger. The mark cannot be erased, serving as a grim reminder of the victims and the ongoing curse.

20 years ago Lap Lan Girls' School
5

Dean Yuen See-yum imposes strict rules

The dean takes charge with harsh punishments and a rigid discipline system inside the school. A severe rule forbidding students from falling in love is enforced relentlessly, signaling a new era of control.

20 years ago Lap Lan Girls' School
6

Dean caught with headmaster; burned by wife

The dean is caught having an affair with the headmaster by the headmaster's wife, who locks her in the school office and burns her to death in anger. This violent ending cements a tragic backstory that fuels the haunting.

20 years ago School office
7

Dean's spirit haunts the school enforcing rules

From that moment onward, the dean's spirit haunts the school and enforces the strict rules in a performative spiritual manner. Disobedience triggers eerie consequences that echo the past.

20 years ago Lap Lan Girls' School
8

New education policy brings four boys to the school

Under a new policy, four boys named Ben, Charlie, Dick, and Keung are admitted to Lap Lan Girls' School. They are largely confined to their classroom and dormitory to minimize interaction with the girls.

Present day Lap Lan Girls' School
9

Secret party in the woods and blossoming romance

Against the rules, the boys throw a secret party in the woods and begin to develop romantic feelings. Their forbidden romance inadvertently revives the lingering curse haunting the school.

Present day Woods near Lap Lan Girls' School
10

Dick and Sze vanish into the school office

A strange force pulls Dick and Sze into the so-called school office, and they vanish from sight. Their disappearance signals a chilling resurfacing of the old hauntings.

Present day School office
11

Charlie and Kei die in the same way as past victims

Charlie dies in the same manner as the former headmaster, likely by hanging, while Kei dies the same way as the suicide student, jumping from a height. The deaths confirm that the curse still feeds on rule breaking.

Present day Lap Lan Girls' School
12

Miss Fong reveals the backstory

The surviving students seek answers from their teacher Miss Fong, who explains that the strict rules were devised twenty years ago by Dean Yuen See-yum. She explains how the dean and headmaster were involved in a deadly coverup, and how the dean's spirit has kept the discipline alive.

Present day Miss Fong's classroom
13

The group vows to destroy the old school office

Keung, Yat-man, Ben, and Siu-fong join forces to locate the old school office and destroy it, hoping that erasing the space will break the curse once and for all. Their mission marks a decisive effort to end the haunting and free the school from the dean's lingering control.

Present day Old school office

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