2006 · fantasy · horror · mystery
Re-cycle
Directed by Oxide Pang Chun, Danny Pang Phat1h 48m2006
Ting-yin, a young novelist, is struggling to come up with a followup to her best-selling trilogy of romance novels. After drafting her first chapter, she stops and deletes 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.
Our read: Re-cycle (2006) reads as a heavy, steady, surreal fantasy · horror · mystery entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured fantasy / horror, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- intense
- surreal
- bleak
- cold
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