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Midnight Garage (三更车库)

Midnight Garage (三更车库; traditional Chinese: 三更车库; pinyin: Sāngēng Chēkù) is a 2015 Chinese horror film directed, written, and produced by Zhou Yaowu, starring Alex Fong Lik-sun (方力申), Yoon So-yi (尹素怡), and Gordon Lam Ka-tung (林家栋), with Tse Kwan-ho (谢君豪), Bai Ru (白茹), Cho Sung-bin (赵成彬), and Jiang Zhongwei (蒋中伟) in supporting roles¹⁴. It was released theatrically in mainland China on April 3, 2015, the Qingming festival date¹, and is adapted from a lethal-garage legend said to have occurred in 1980s Hong Kong¹.

Key fact	Detail
Original title	三更车库 (Sāngēng Chēkù); English title Midnight Garage; also released as 幽灵车库 (Ghost Garage) and 地下11米 (11 Meters Underground)²
Director and writer	Zhou Yaowu, who also produced¹⁴
Release	April 3, 2015, mainland China, timed to the Qingming festival¹^•³
Basis	A 1980s "death garage" incident on High Street in Hong Kong's Central and Western District, after which the garage was reportedly sealed by the Hong Kong government¹
Production	Filmed in Hong Kong in 2013 at a stated cost of 7 million Hong Kong dollars; distributed by Fujian Hengye Film Distribution⁴
Box office	Under 8 million yuan in mainland China, ranking 201st among 2015 releases tracked by Maoyan⁵^•⁶
Series position	Marketed as a return of the Hong Kong-style "Three" (三更) horror anthology after a decade⁷

Spoilers

Plot

The story is set in the underground garage of a building in a busy commercial district. Luo Kun (Alex Fong), a security guard newly assigned to night duty, finds that colleagues who encounter a particular parking space die or go mad one after another. The space carries a warning sign reading "mortuary parking; whoever stops here dies" (尸家车位，停者必死), and legend holds that anyone who parks there will be killed⁴^•⁸. According to the promotional synopsis, drivers who park in the cursed space die in unusual accidents, and victims are said to have seen a pair of expressionless ghosts in the garage beforehand⁹.

The plot turns when Lisa (Yoon So-yi), an office worker in the building, unknowingly parks in the fatal space, and the deaths resume⁹. Luo Kun, taking on the role of a ghost-catching Taoist, and his fellow guard Baozi (Gordon Lam) investigate the truth behind the "garage killings"⁴. An English-language synopsis describes the film as following a security guard who witnesses the curse at work and must find a way to stop it while his colleagues refuse to believe him².

Production and release

The film was shot in Hong Kong in 2013, with a stated production budget of 7 million Hong Kong dollars, and was produced and distributed by Fujian Hengye Film Distribution⁴^•¹. Dialogue is in Mandarin and Cantonese⁴.

Release timing. The premiere date of April 3, 2015 coincided with Qingming, the tomb-sweeping festival, and the film was promoted as the only horror title custom-made for that year's Qingming release window³. A teaser trailer and poster were released in late February 2015, and a premiere press event was held in Beijing on March 30, 2015, where Fong and Lam discussed on-set "ghost encounters" and performed a ghost-catching skit³^•¹⁰. Marketing materials emphasized four Asian horror elements, summarized as "yin-yang third watch, garage soul-gathering, spirit-controlled coffin, and corpse burning"¹⁰.

The Three series connection

The title invokes Three (三更), the 2002 horror anthology produced by three Asian directors, which was followed by Three... Extremes (三更2)⁷^•¹¹. Chinese-language coverage positioned Midnight Garage as the series' return after ten years, with Sogou Baike calling it a comeback work of the Hong Kong-style "Three" horror line and one outlet describing it as the series' concluding chapter⁷^•¹². Sina Entertainment noted that the release would give mainland audiences their first theatrical viewing of a "Three series" work³.

Reception and box office

The film earned under 8 million yuan at the mainland box office, a result cited in a retrospective on the decline of Chinese horror cinema as evidence that Fujian Hengye, which had scored 411 million yuan with The House That Never Dies (京城81号) in 2014, had lost market favor⁵. Maoyan's year-end ranking for 2015 places the film 201st among releases that year⁶.

Runtime discrepancy. Sources disagree on the film's length: the Chinese-language wiki lists 108 minutes¹, Newton's encyclopedia lists 83 minutes⁴, Letterboxd and GoldPoster list 86 minutes²^•¹³, and iQIYI lists 1 hour 27 minutes (87 minutes)⁸. No source in this record resolves the difference.

References

Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Films and standalone screen works › Individual films by title and year › Horror films (individual works) › Supernatural horror films › 2010s supernatural horror films

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026

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