Re-cycle (Chinese: Gwai wik) is a 2006 horror-thriller film directed by the Pang Brothers and starring Angelica Lee. The film was the closing film in the Un Certain Regard program at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. It was also a reunion for Pangs and the actress Lee, who starred in the Pang's 2002 hit, The Eye. It is a Hong Kong/Thai co-production.

Plot

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Ting-yin, a young novelist, is struggling to come up with a followup to her first book, which was a bestseller in Southeast Asia. Her agent has already announced that the next title, The Recycle, will deal with the supernatural, who Ting-yin, who works under the pen name Chu Xun is under a lot of pressure to meet expectations.

However, after drafting her first chapter, she stops and delets the file from her computer.

She then starts seeing strange, unexplainable things and finds that she is experiencing the supernatural events that she described in her novel-to-be.

Cast

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• Angelica Lee as Ting-yin/Chu Xun
• Lawrence Chou as Abby
• Ekin Cheng
• Siu-Ming Lau
• Rain Li

Controversy

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Ting-yin finds herself in a parallel universe where abandoned things end up, including aborted fetuses, leading some critics to believe the film carried an anti-abortion message. "That just happens to be one of the topics in the movie. We are not out to say if abortion is right or wrong," Oxide Pang said in one interview. Tan, Jeanine (July 6, 2006), "It's a horror film, not a crusade", Channel NewsAsia.

References

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External links

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• Re-cycle at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival

2006 films | Asian horror | Hong Kong films | Thai films