{"id":87763,"date":"2026-09-25T12:34:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T04:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=87763"},"modified":"2026-09-25T12:34:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T04:34:04","slug":"profile-how-91-year-old-helena-law-lan-became-hong-kong-cinemas-grand-dame-of-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=87763","title":{"rendered":"Profile | How 91-year-old Helena Law Lan became Hong Kong cinema\u2019s grand dame of horror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/09\/22\/a577c138-ee87-4651-87b6-813faf5f1554_a4fbd0a3.jpg?itok=lDAHg7df&amp;v=1790073787\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\"><em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">This is the 86th instalment in a<\/em> <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\"><em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">biweekly series<\/em><\/span> <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">profiling major Hong Kong pop culture figures of recent decades.<\/em><\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Few figures are as synonymous with Hong Kong horror films as Helena Law Lan, who has been a household name for over half a century.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Unlike the typical \u201cscream queens\u201d who gain popularity playing damsels in distress, 91-year-old Law has been the city\u2019s on-screen spirit medium for over three decades and for years served as Hong Kong theme park Ocean Park\u2019s <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Halloween ambassador<\/span>.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Remarkably, it was not until her late fifties that Law became Hong Kong cinema\u2019s go-to demoness; for the first few decades of her career, she primarily played minor supporting roles or villains in films and television series.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/entertainment\/article\/3368350\/how-91-year-old-helena-law-lan-became-hong-kong-cinemas-grand-dame-horror?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the 86th instalment in a biweekly series profiling major Hong Kong pop culture figures of recent decades. Few figures are as synonymous with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[20634,8715,30596,636,30595,3569,2424,5231,12181,863,4944],"class_list":["post-87763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-91yearold","tag-cinemas","tag-dame","tag-grand","tag-helena","tag-hong","tag-horror","tag-kong","tag-lan","tag-law","tag-profile","wpcat-33-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/87764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}