Legend of the Demon Cat May Be One of the Most Expensive Period Horror Films Ever
Jonathan Barkan
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China and Japan are hard at work on an epic version of Legend of the Demon Cat, an adaptation of Japanese author Baku Yumemakura’s story. Moonstone Films explains that the film required the construction of an entire city, “…with lakes, rivers, palaces, caves, glamorous buildings and parks. The construction took 5 years at the cost of over 200 million US dollars.” They managed to justify this unbelievable endeavor by stating the city would then be converted into an amusement park after filming is complete.
Per the site, “The filming of this epic lasted 150 shooting days over 3 seasons, with thousands of extras, over 15,000 costumes and a crew of hundreds of professionals. Over 1,200 Visual Effects are being designed in Japan, creating the mysterious character of the film – The Demon Cat.”
Below are two BTS videos from the making of the film as well as some stills and posters.
Directed by Kaige Chen and written by Hui-Ling Wang, Legend of the Demon Cat stars Shôta Sometani, Xuan Huang, Yuqi Zhang, and Hao Qin. The film has a release date of December 22nd, 2017 in China.
Synopsis:
Legend of the Demon Cat is set over a thousand years ago during the Tang Dynasty. A Chinese poet and a Japanese monk join forces to investigate a demonic cat who has possessed a general’s wife and wreaked havoc on the imperial court. The investigation takes gruesome and unexpected twists, resulting in the monk and the poet unraveling the mystery behind the death decades earlier of legendary, beautiful concubine Yang Guifei.
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