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Tuesday, 23 October 2012

Re-cycle (2006)


Labeling Re-cycle a horror movie is a bit of a stretch, but it's all the better for its lack of big scares. This is a parade of the fantastic, a tale of a writer's mind and all the ideas that lurk within. The plot sometimes feels like an excuse to showcase spectacular visuals, and I'm perfectly okay with this.

There's no denying that Re-cycle's script is a little lacking, but it's such a visual treat it's hard to care. The Pang Brothers have always had a great visual style, but this is their masterpiece, a buffet's worth of visual feasts. I would have loved this even if it had no plot at all. It was just so imaginative and was a joy to watch. As long as you don't come in expecting an involving story, you'll have a terrific time with this one.

4 forests of corpses out of 5.

Wednesday, 4 January 2012

Ab-normal Beauty (2004)

Aka: Sei mong se jun

Art student gets bored being pretentious and snobbish while photographing birds and buildings, so finds a morbid subject matter to get her jollies. For a brief moment it gets interesting, but plummets into stylised torture-porn bullshit that made me yearn for the birds and buildings again, at least they had hidden depths.

0 no, I don't care about your shitty art out of 5