History Film / Hex

** [[spoiler: Leung Yi-Wah gets tormented to the point where she lose her sanity]]. But being a FalseFriend and backstabbing ManipulativeBitch, she gets no sympathies.

* DisproportionateRetribution: In his EstablishingCharacterMoment to make the audience know he’s the biggest asshole ever churned out by Shaw Brothers, Chun-yu is introduced beating up a terrified, crying servant girl as punishment for… spilling red bean soup. When his wife, Lady Chan, tries to stop him, Chun-yu beats her up as well for getting in his way, despite knowing fully well that Lady Chan is suffering from tuberculosis.
* DomesticAbuse: Chun-yu, who punished his maids for the pettiest of mistakes and have no qualms abusing his wife who is suffering from tuberculosis. Early in the film it's mentioned that he had "caused nine handmaidens to flee from the mansion because of his abusive nature".

* FakingTheDead: At the end of the first act, the semi-unconscious Chun-Yu ends up being [[spoiler: shoved into a vat of water by a pissed off Leung Yi-Wah, who then begs for Lady Chan Sau-Ying to help her sit on the vat's lid and drown Chun-Yu, where they then dispose of Chun-Yu corpse together]]. Except that's not what it seems; [[spoiler: truth is, Chun-Yu had a hidden pipe with him, allowing him to breath underwater, arranged by his accomplice Leung Yi-Wah. With Chan Sau-Ying, already suffering from tuberculosis, coupled with the guilt over the supposed murder, Chun-Yu can then "return" as a ghost to force his wife into dying of shock]].
* FalseFriend: [[spoiler: Leung Yi-wah to Lady Chan Sau-Ying, who pretends to sympathize with the oft-abused Chan, but is actually plotting for Chan Sau-ying's death -- with Sau-ying's unfaithful husband, Chun-yu -- in order to claim the Chan family's inheritance]].

** Chun-yu, JUST this guy. The Shaws didn’t even bother to hide the fact that audiences are '''supposed''' to despise his guts, that they might as well paint the words "despicable piece-of-filth scumbag" on his forehead. In his very first scene he brutally abused a frightened young maid for spilling his soup, and when the sobbing young maid gets comforted by Lady Chan only to have Chun-yu walking in on her, he then continues beating the poor maid. He refers to his tuberculosis-ridden wife as "that diseased bitch" and "sickly waste" and abuses her physically, verbally, and emotionally, with a further scene revealing he had driven away at least nine other maids, all of them young women from poor households only trying to make a living, with his abusive nature. TheReveal later on makes his despicability multiply maybe tenfold, see the next line.
** [[spoiler: Leung Yi-wah is introduced as a distant friend of Lady Chan Sau-ying, but is secretly working in tandem with Chun-yu to have Lady Chan – already suffering from chronic tuberculosis – murdered. Being the secret lover of Chun-yu, Leung Yi-Wah fakes Chun-yu’s death and have Lady Chan psychologically tormented with guilt, before arranging for her former best friend’s brutal death, which she shows no remorse over]].

* IncurableCoughOfDeath: On Lady Chan Sau-ying, after her tuberculosis took a turn for the worse. [[spoiler: It ends up killing her]].

* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Chun-yu, who arranged for a ScoobyDooHoax that causes his tuberculosis-laden wife to die a slow, agonizing death, ends up being the victim of ''another '' hoax – arranged by his wife's twin sister, no less – which causes him to throw himself to death]].

* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Lady Chan Sau-Ying's ghost isn't behind the hauntings which eventually results in the death of her wife-abusing husband, Chun-yu, and unfaithful friend, Yi-Wah; turns out Chan Sau-Ying have a younger sister, Chan Sau-Fong, who arranged for the "haunting" to have the perpetrators behind her death respectively driven to suicide and insanity]].

** This ends up biting him back in the ass [[spoiler: for as it turns out, Chan Sau-Ying have a twin sister, Chan Sau-Fong, who pretends to be her sister's ghost, and coming back to haunt Chun-yu and Yi-Wah. For instance, when Chun-yu wakes up to find his wife's decomposing body on his bed? Turns out Sau-Fong dug her out of the grave and carried her corpse to the bedroom]]…

* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: [[spoiler: It turns out Lady Chan Sau-Ying have a secret identical twin sister, Chan Sau-Fong, which she ''never'' mentioned for the entirety of the film. In fact, the hauntings and supernatural phenomenon throughout the movie, turns out to be the twin inflicting the worse psychological torment possible on the perpetrators responsible for Sau-Ying's death]].

* BaldWoman: [[spoiler: Leung Yi-Wah at the end of the film; in order to exorcise Lady Chan’s restless soul, she had to shave every inch of hair on her body, and allow a priestess to paint Buddhist inscriptions all over her naked body. It doesn’t work, because… there NEVER was a haunting from a VengefulGhost in the first place]]? Also provides a CoverDrop.

* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Chun-yu, who arranged for a ScoobyDoo hoax that causes his tuberculosis-laden wife to die a slow, agonizing death, ends up being the victim of ''another '' hoax – arranged by his wife's twin sister, no less – which causes him to throw himself to death]].

** [[spoiler: After faking his death, Chun-yu pretends to come back as a malevolent demon in order to scare his wife, Lady Chan Sau-YIng -- already suffering badly due to tuberculosis -- until she ends up dying horribly from shock and guilt. The moment Lady Chan dies, Chun-yu then shows up, claiming to be returning from a business trip, right in time to hog all the inheritance for himself]].

Not to be confused with the [[Series/{{Hex}} TV series]] or the [[VideoGame/{{Hex}} video game]].

* BloodFromTheMouth: [[spoiler: Lady Chan Sau-Ying at the moment of her death. Seeing her death husband by her bedside, her tuberculosis already ravaging her body to the point of being near-fatal, and NOT helped by the numerous amounts of hallucinogens she had consumed through spiked medicine... Lady Chan ends up falling off her bed, head-first, breaking her skull and puking blood all over the bedroom floor]].

''Hex'' is a 1980 supernatural horror film made by Creator/ShawBrothers, directed by horror-meister Kuei Chi-hung of ''Film/TheBoxersOmen'' and ''/Film/Bewitched1981'' fame.

The son-in-law, [[DomesticAbuser Yeung Chun-yu]], married himself into the Chans for their wealth, but with the family dying off left and right and denied of the inheritance which is sealed in the Chan family's vault, Chun-yi is determined to make his wife, Lady Chan, suffer and remain as miserable as she could until her death. But the arrival of Lady Chan's close friend, Leung Yi-Wah from the rural countryside to find a job, might turn the long-suffering wife's fate around... but NOT for the better.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Chun-yu ends up suffering excessive psychological trauma from believing his wife had returned from the dead to haunt him, to the point where he ends up throwing himself to his death]]. Nobody cares.

* HelpingHand: [[spoiler: Lady Chan’s ghost animates her hand to scare off a priest trying to exorcise her]].

* FoodSlap: One of Chun-yu’s several {{Jerkass}} moments have him throwing his tea in his wife’ face because "it’s too hot", in a Live-Action reenactment of the {{Jerkass}} page image.

** This ends up biting him back in the ass [[spoiler: for as it turns out, Chan Sau-Ying have a twin sister, Chan Sau-Fong, who pretends to be her sister's ghost, and coming back to haunt Chun-yu and Yi-Wah. For instance, when Chun-yu wakes up to find his wife's decomposing body on his bed? Turns out Sau-Fong dug her out of the grave and carried her corpse to the bedroom]]...