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Ab-normal Beauty

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A teen girl with artistic inclinations, Jiney (Race Wong) takes acclaimed photographs but is unhappy with her work. After witnessing a fatal car crash and shooting pictures at the grisly scene, Jiney becomes preoccupied with death. Followed by the obsessive, camcorder-wielding Anson (Anson Leung), Jiney soon heads down a dark path. While Jiney's friend Jas (Rosanne Wong) tries to help her, it may be too late to prevent her macabre decline, which has roots in a childhood trauma.

Critics Reviews

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Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews 01/25/2009
C+
It's a highly stylized voyeuristic tormented artist shocker of a horror thriller that is more gruesomely enigmatic than entertaining. Go to Full Review
Josh Ralske All Movie Guide 08/05/2006
4/10
...the film...devolves...into...standard slasher movie fare. Go to Full Review
Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid 02/16/2006
Until the mystery is uncovered, Pang keeps the razor tension at a satisfying peak. Go to Full Review
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Audience Reviews

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10/09/2013 Abnormal Beauty is a slow burn that takes awhile to get going. See more 05/26/2013 Premesse interessanti ed alcuni momenti stilosi, ma poi cala fino ad un finale troppo fiacco See more 06/20/2012 Quite a serious and unsettling film about a girl who becomes obsessed with photographing scenes of death, she starts to receive photos and videos of death and torture scenes, and investigates. See more 03/25/2012 A beautful film! This movie puts you in a trance and yoi cant look away! See more 03/21/2012 Jin (Race Wong) is a young and talented photography student with several accolades for her photographs, but is dissatisfied with her own work. But when she witnesses a car crash leaving one person dead she takes pictures, and soon after becomes infatuated with photographing death. This in turn sets her down a self destructive path which brings out old wounds from a traumatic event in her childhood. With the help of her close friend and romantic interest Jas (Rosanne Wong), she starts taking steps toward facing the trauma and healing. But this is short lived when disturbing video tapes from a stalker start showing up which could either be realistic snuff videos or actual documentaries of young women being murdered on video. This is not your typical crime thriller where a girl is stalked and calls the police. The overall aesthetic style and pace of the film coincides with the equally aesthetic plot of a young girl obsessed with death from an artistic viewpoint, who in turn becomes the subject herself at the hands of a seemingly sadistic stalker. Good movie, but the style of the film and the plot may not be for everyone. See more 03/18/2012 I had no idea what this film would be like going in and half way through the film, I still wasn`t sure what kind of film I was watching. Is this a horror film, love story, torture porn, comment on the arts, ghost story, or perhaps, a little of all of the above? The film sure did have me guessing and if you have expectations of a certain genre or subgenre going in, you may find yourself disappointed. If you go in thinking about art and it's many forms, how they mingle and meld and can change based on ones perception than this film might make a bit more sense to you. Overall it's not a bad movie, I'm just not sure it knew where it was going to finish when it first started... much like an artist dealing with a blank canvas. See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis A teen girl with artistic inclinations, Jiney (Race Wong) takes acclaimed photographs but is unhappy with her work. After witnessing a fatal car crash and shooting pictures at the grisly scene, Jiney becomes preoccupied with death. Followed by the obsessive, camcorder-wielding Anson (Anson Leung), Jiney soon heads down a dark path. While Jiney's friend Jas (Rosanne Wong) tries to help her, it may be too late to prevent her macabre decline, which has roots in a childhood trauma.
Director
Oxide Chun Pang
Screenwriter
Oxide Chun Pang
Genre
Mystery & Thriller, Horror
Original Language
Chinese
Release Date (Streaming)
Feb 19, 2015
Runtime
1h 38m
Sound Mix
Dolby Digital, DTS