The House That Never Dies

The House That Never Dies
Directed by	Raymond Yip
Produced by	Manfred Wong
Written by	Manfred Wong
Starring	Francis Ng Ruby Lin Monica Mok Tony Yang Qin Hailu
Cinematography	Xu Xiao Giang
Edited by	Li Gia Rong
Production company	Heng Ye Film Distribution Co.,Ltd China Film Group Co-production: Shanghai Creasun Media Chong Qing Film Group Shanghai Media Group(SMG) Perfect Sky Pictures TIK Films China Film Co., LTD Beijing Film Distribution Branch
Distributed by	China Film Group
Release date	July 18, 2014 (2014-07-18)
Running time	90 min
Country	China
Language	Mandarin
Budget	100 million yuan (US$16,000,000)
Box office	407 million yuan

The House That Never Dies (simplified Chinese: 京城81号; traditional Chinese: 京城81號; pinyin: Jing Cheng 81 Hao) is a 2014 Chinese 3D thriller film directed by Raymond Yip. The story is based on that of a purportedly haunted mansion, Chaonei No. 81, which is located on No.81 Chaoyangmen Inner Street in Beijing, China.

The Chaonei No. 81 was a three-story French Baroque-style house which was built in the 1800s by Qing officials. Legend says that the house became haunted after the end of the Chinese Communist Revolution in 1949, when the wife of a Kuomintang official who once lived there committed suicide. It is believed that her spirit still haunts the house.

The 3D thriller is based on the legendary mansion at No. 81 on Chaoyangmennei Street in Beijing, follows Xu Ruoqing (Ruby Lin), a woman whose presence in the notorious mansion draws up the spirits that have taken residence there. She has recently moved in with their daughter to the mansion with Zhao Yitang (Francis Ng), the boss of a publication company publishing Xu Ruoqing's novels.

The film starts with the story of a notable family who lives in the house right after the fall of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). When the family's third son, Huo Lianqi (Tony Yang) falls in love with a prostitute named Lu Dieyu (also Lin), his request to marry her is refused and instead the family force Lu to marry their second recently deceased son in a posthumous wedding ceremony. Going from the wedding directly to the funeral, the family throws Lu Dieyu into a coffin with the pale-faced dead body of her new husband.