Re-cycle (2006)
"Gwai wik" (original title)

After writing three best-sellers about love story based on her own experiences, the successful writer Tsui Ting-Yin is without inspiration and having difficulties to write her new novel in ... See full summary »

Directors:

Oxide Pang Chun, Danny Pang

Writers:

Cub Chin, Sam Lung,

Stars:

Angelica Lee, Pou-Soi Cheang, Ekin Cheng

3 wins & 2 nominations.

Cast

Credited cast:
Angelica Lee	...	Tsui Ting-Yin (as Lee Sinje)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Pou-Soi Cheang	...	The director of 'My Love' (as Cheang Pou Soi)
Ekin Cheng
Lawrence Chou	...	Lawrence
Viraiwon Jauwseng	...	Yuk Ling
Siu-Ming Lau	...	Old Man
Rain Li
Zeng Qi Qi	...	Ting-yu (as Yaqi Zeng)
Jetrin Wattanasin

Storyline

After writing three best-sellers about love story based on her own experiences, the successful writer Tsui Ting-Yin is without inspiration and having difficulties to write her new novel in the horror genre entitled "Re-cycle". While drafting the text, spooky events happen at her apartment and her former boy-friend of eight years ago visits her, after his divorce, proposing Tsui. When Tsui sees a supernatural long-haired character of her book, she follows him and is trapped in his world of terror. But she is saved by the young Ting-yu, who discloses a secret about her to Tsui.

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Plot Keywords:

confusion | visual effect | other world | existentialism | stranger | 

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Taglines:

The abandoned don't just disappear.

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Genres:

Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for frightening and disturbing images

Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

Thailand Hong Kong

Language:

Mandarin Cantonese

Release Date:

1 July 2006 (Hong Kong)

Also Known As:

Re-cycle

Box Office

Opening Weekend:

$423,138 (Hong Kong) (7 July 2006)

Gross:

$1,775,764 (Hong Kong) (21 July 2006)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Magic Head Film Production Co., Magic Heart Film Production, Matching Motion Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

108 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Quotes

Ting-yu: This is a forgotten world for the abandoned.
Tsui Ting-Yin: The abandoned?
Ting-yu: Yes, everything you discard ends up here. Even thoughts and unfulfilled promises.

User Reviews

Writing from experience…

The Pang Brothers book marked a creatively grim, if disconnected little supernatural horror film balancing that of a novelist (a perfectly pitched performance by Angelica Lee) trying to write a horror novel, but finding out what she writes is personally happening to her. Being haunted by her work with the growing expectations, or a former if complicated love coming back on the scene. She enters a dream reality (where the title comes in to play), mixing the stark horror and fleeting happiness in what is a journey of discovery… up until its undermining ending. I was actually liking the (traditional, but stimulating) build-up (consisting of eerie sounds, lurking figures and a sense of danger) until she enters this fantasy world (like a nightmarish spin of 'Alice's in Wonderland'), where the story felt more like clips (well that's how memories kept hidden, waiting to be remembered simply come and then go) and being cluttered with crazy CGI… which wasn't badly projected, as some sequences were amazing, but eventually I grew tired of the routine. The Pang Brothers' surefooted handling is slick, letting the flowing cinematography craft out haunting frames and wonderfully strange imagery. Inspired, but emotionally starved and the story really loses momentum.