Anson Leung, Ekin Cheng, Michelle Mee

When a young photography student (Race Wong) witnesses a woman get hit by a car and bleed to death, she snaps a few shots of the scene, inadvertently discovering that she has a disturbing fascination ...( read more  read more... )with death. But keeping her creepy hobby under wraps proves more challenging than she ever expected … especially when she receives an anonymous videotape from someone who seems to know her secret. Rosanne Wong, Anson Leung and Michelle Mee co-star.

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R, 1 hr. 41 min.

Directed by: Oxide Pang Chun

Release Date: December 31, 2004

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DVD Release Date: December 26, 2005

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  • January 28, 2007
    A pretty solid Korean suspense film. It doesn't deliver many scares, but puts forth a very interesting premise that is occasionally compromised by adding too much to the plot. Some of the subplots didn't really seem to move the story forward, and a few scenes dragged.

    The Wong s...( read more)isters, playing the two female main characters, have a lot of screen presence and acting talent. All of the other major performances are pretty slow.

    Ab-Normal Beauty's final strength is its visual construction. The movie is absolutely gorgeous, both in cinematography and in composition. Even all of the actors are beautiful.
  • October 14, 2008
    I always thought that if I was ever in the mood for a fantastic horror movie, east Asian filmmakers would never disappoint.

    Oxide Pang has disproved that assumption with this convoluted mess of a movie. Sure, it's beautifully shot, and the music is excellent. But the sparse thre...( read more)ads of plot that do exist in this movie aimlessly meander in search of a point without reaching it. I don't mind style over substance, but style without substance is just plain boring.
  • February 4, 2008
    Very good film combining the gritty and corny sides of Asian horror into an interesting cocktail of blood!
  • June 21, 2007
    A tense,brilliantly acted horror/thriller about a photography student who gets bored taking "normal" photos and starts taking pictures of death;dead people and animals.So much so that it becomes an obsession that becomes very dangerous.
  • March 26, 2009
    Christmas themed torture scene
    muy bonita hermanas pero
    crit on genre itself?
    Reel time watcher
  • January 4, 2009
    The first half of it is a pretentious bore. Then, just when you think, "wow, a happy ending" they introduce a ridiculous twist. One or two elements couldve made for a better story. There were interesting pieces in play but wrong moves made.
  • October 12, 2008
    good history really anormal likes
  • June 16, 2008
    It looks pretty, but it's slow and, considering the subject matter (lesbian photographer becomes obsessed with death!), it's really really tame, too. Doesn't really know what kind of horror it wants to be, so it all just comes out flat...
  • February 9, 2008
    pretty good storyline. there twists and turns that aren't seen coming. Americans should watch out. Asian people are starting to have a cornerstone on horror
  • January 2, 2008
    unnecessary sfx and music... with shinya tsukamoto's wannabe plot line... ha...

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