Jiney is a college student who's really interested in photography and one day she start to takes photos of dead animals that she sees and gets more and more into doing it. Later on she happens to see a car crash were a woman gets killed and Jiney starts to take photos of the lifeless human body and after that it's all about death for Jiney and her photography. Only thing she's interested in except for taking photos is her best friend Jas, but after getting obsessed with death even Jas starts to become more and more uninteresting to Jiney, and Jas of course wonders what's going on and tries to talk some sense into her best friend which doesn't really seem to work at first. Jiney actually gives up her obsession later on and returns to her normal life but someone stalks her and keeps sending her videotapes containing disturbing things.
I really like the Pang Brothers movies, most known one is of course The Eye which is a great horror flick, although I must say that the one for me that really stands out from their works, except Bangkok Dangerous, is definitely Ab-normal Beauty.
Only movie made by them that I didn't like was The Eye 10, I liked the second one and I think they could've stopped there. Anyway this movie is a true pearl and you should definetly give it a go if you haven't had a chance to see it, because it's truly great and more over, very different.
 
This movie is good on so many levels, and another cool thing is that the movie is like divided into two parts one could say. First part is about when she first gets her obsession and deals with that and the people around her, and then when everything seems to be over and well, it all starts again but this time with something totally different.
It has to be seen to know exactly what I mean, but the way the movie is built up is just fantastic. The directing is awesome and the movie is very dark and asks a lot of questions. It's also somewhat disturbing at times, has this great atmosphere to it and is very intense at every now and then.
It's also a shame that it hasn't got the attention that it deserves like The Eye got, most people know that movie by now but this have been left in the shadows, and I don't know why that is, maybe because that it's not as commercial as The Eye is.
If you find this movie don't let it slip away. If you ask me, it's one of the better Asian horror titles out there.
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ALTERNATIVE TITLE: Sei mong se jun
MOVIE YEAR: 2004
DIRECTOR: Oxide Pang Chun
WRITING CREDITS: Oxide Pang Chun
GENRE: Horror, Thriller
CAST: Ekin Cheng, Anson Leung, Michelle Mee
COUNTRY: Hong Kong
RUNTIME: 101 min
RATING: 10/10
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