Re-Cycle (2006)

Reviewed by Carol Sullivan

Genre: Fantasy / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Released: September 23, 2008
Rating: R for frightening and disturbing images

Directors: The Pang Brothers
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DVD Features
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Theatrical Trailer

The Making of Re-Cycle

Deleted Scenes

CG Renderings (Before & After)

Cast & Crew Q&A Session

Gala Premiere, Interviews and Celebration Party

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The Pang Brothers Strike Again !

Attention : Horror fans, budding cinematographers and aspiring writers, have I found the movie for you! Re-Cycle absolutely blew my mind and I highly recommend that you run out and rent it tonight! The talented directorial team,The Pang Brothers, in my opinion, can comfortably be ranked right up there with some of the best directors in cinema today. Their vision and insight translates beautifully to the screen and is always a treat for the viewer. Re-Cycle is their latest, and unarguably, one of their best.

The movie begins as we join Tin-Yin (Angelica Lee, The Eye), a hit romance novelist, suffering an existential crisis. A failed romance still haunts her and she decides that her next novel will be about ghosts, not love. When Tin-Yin begins to write the description of her story's female protagonist, an eerie figure appears in her apartment. Soon, she finds long strands of hair on the counter that are not hers and there are strange voices on her answering machine. To her horror, the new book begins to write itself, with or without her help. Doubting her sanity, Tin-Yin climbs into the apartment building elevator the next day and quite literally "falls-down-the-rabbit-hole."

This is when Re-Cycle grabs you and never lets go.

Tin-Yin finds herself in a fantasy world that feels like Silent Hill meets The Wizard of Oz. As she is pursued by frightening, faceless people, she runs from one horrifying setting to the next, desperately trying to find her way back to reality. These fantastically beautiful and terrible realms she stumbles through are different abandoned worlds; worlds of discarded books, forgotten toys, long-lost loved ones and unfulfilled promises. Is it all a nightmare, hell, or are these worlds of her own creation?

Every scene in this movie will absolutely take your breath away. Incredibly detailed and beautifully filmed; I found that I could not look away from the TV right from the beginning credits. Re-Cycle is one of those rare films that crosses that magical line between horror and fantasy and even the music, by Payont Permsith, is haunting and full of its own dimensions.

I am not going to give away the ending, for it is a good one. I will say that it is incredibly upsetting and touching. The ending is subject to interpretation and every viewer will feel differently about it, but it is none-the-less brilliant. Even two days after watching this movie, I still think I can feel its chills.

So, dim the lights and be swept away by Re-Cycle.

Definitely recommended as a rental and/or purchase.

Overall Rating: 4 1/2

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