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Angelica Lee, the award-winning star of The Eye who has seldom been seen on screen since, reunites with the Pang Brothers for Re-Cycle.
SYNOPSIS:
The
Pang
brothers
return
with
another
horror
movie
Re-Cycle.
This
visually
impressive
piece
stars
Angelica
Lee
who
first
worked
with
the
Pang
brothers
in
The
Eye.
She
plays
a
popular
author
who
falls
into
a
eerily
beautiful
world
when
writing
a
supernatural
thriller.
The
Pang
brothers
employ
new
CG
technologies
to
create
abandoned
slums
which
resemble
Hong
Kong's
long-forgotten
demolished
walled
city,
imagined
color-drained
hills
and
forests,
and
a
suffocating
tunnel
with
embryos
hanging
from
above.
The
first
half
of
the
film
delivers
plenty
of
suspense
in
the
same
style
as
other
Pang
brothers'
film.
However,
the
second
half
of
Re-Cycle,
mostly
an
RPG-like
adventure,
innovatively
weaves
into
the
exquisite
setting
a
sense
of
spookiness.
Angelica
Lee
is
Ting-yin,
a
popular
author
who
is
stuck
with
her
writing
and
keeps
discarding
her
ideas.
She
starts
to
sense
her
apartment
being
haunted.
When
she
steps
out
of
her
building,
she
arrives
in a
mysterious
world
where
she
comes
across
characters
she
has
created
and
abandoned.
An
old
man
tells
her
that
she
must
go
to
"The
Transit"
to
leave
this
place,
and
a
little
girl
accompanies
her
to
go
through
one
desolate
world
to
another
in
this
inexplicable
space...
The
film
concludes
with
a
surprising
twist
which
one
will
appreciate
if
he
or
she
follows
the
clever
plot
closely.
The
sophisticated
narrative
structure,
which
at
times
mixes
fiction
and
reality,
makes
the
film
more
interesting
than
what
is
expected
from
a
normal
horror
film.
Thematically
speaking,
the
attraction
of
Re-Cycle
lies
in
the
notion
of
abandonment.
Ideas
discarded
and
memories
forgotten,
no
matter
by
an
individual
or a
community,
will
return
to
haunt
you.
Plot Details: The first novel of a young woman writer, Ting-yin, pen-named Chu Xun (Lee Sinje, aka Angelica Lee), has become the bestseller in South East Asia. Her novel is a love story that touches the hearts of all her readers. Her manager, Lawrence (Lawrence Chow) announces her next title at her autograph party. "The Re-cycle", is her next book and is going to deal with supernatural forces for a change. Her readers eagerly await the release of this new book with high expectations of her fictional work to be true to life.
The film opens with Ting-yin starting work on Recycle. After drafting a chapter, she stops. She even deletes the file which contains the draft from her computer. Later, she begins to see things, including a woman who appears repeatedly at certain places. Some of the phenomenon cannot be explained. Ting-yin soon begins to feel that the supernatural events depicted in her fictional work are beginning to unfold in the real world!
The most horrible thing is the mysterious woman who comes and goes is actually the heroine of her new book who has come out of the fictional world and into the real world. Ting-yin finds it increasingly hard to tell what is real and what is imaginary. But she soon learns that perhaps she should follow the mysterious woman into the other world. But wait a minute… isn't that the exact same plot of the Recycle novel she's been working on? But by having the experience herself, wouldn't it be the best way to learn of the inexplicable? One night, Ting-yin decides to follow the woman into the other world. in which she has the experience of real and pure terror. Soon, the line between reality and fantasy rapidly begin to vanish."
The concept of the whole film is derived from the computer program of the recycle bin, which is used to keep deleted files. The content of the deleted files seem to have been removed from the computer, but they are still there after all. The film is based on the assumption that all forgotten and forsaken people and objects are put away in another world…
Cast List
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Angelica Lee |
Lau Siu-Ming |
Lawrence Chou |
Rain Li |
RE-CYCLE Trailer
