Ab-normal Beauty
Ab-normal Beauty
| 11 April 2004 (USA)
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Jiney is an popular art and photography student, but despite winning an award, she remains unhappy with her work. After photographing the aftermath of a fatal car accident, she finds herself obsessed with death. Suffering from morbid throughts, flashbacks of an incident from her youth when she was sexually abused by some young boys start to appear.

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Exoticalot

People are voting emotionally.

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TeenzTen

An action-packed slog

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Myron Clemons

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

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Janae Milner

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

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christopher-underwood

Just one of the Pang brothers this time but quite a tour de force. Always looking good, this tells the story of two lesbian girl friends, and although we don't get to see any of that sort of action, we see plenty of the violent kind. One sister, very much into art and photography drifts into taking pictures of the dead and dying and with the help of contextual flashbacks a powerful story develops. Violence is always threatened and when we see the 'snuff' video we think that's it. But there is much more to come and it is very heavy stuff. Apparently the two leads are real life sisters who make up a Singapore singing duo. Pretty though they are there is not much sign of such frivolities here.

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Mana-Rayne Ash

I give this movie a ten, and not lightly.It was beautifully filmed, and very artistic. The darker portions of the movie where you're engulfed in an eerie feeling are very dark and dingy in the colors selected, and yet so very bright when goals have been accomplished, putting forward a great feel and really intriguing anyone interested in artistic films. The writing wasn't great, but the story was amazing. Still, I'm drawn to the shots and beauty behind the movie.If you're looking for a creepy movie that isn't about the fairy tale monster, but rather the monsters we may look at every day, this' the movie for you.I recommend this movie whole heartedly. A GREAT watch.

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danstewart25

It's very easy to write a bad review. Every hack reviewer gets the temptation when sitting through a boring film to just pack in the screening, go home and write 500 words of spiteful critical mass. It's easy.But there are no words in the critical lexicon to convey the sheer, utter awfulness of this film. It's laughable. It's terrible. It's incredible that it got made.Firstly you have the frankly quite masturbatory concept - clearly thought-up by a creepily lascivious film producer - of having the film's two leads as hot teenage lesbians. Immature voyeuristic fantasy, anyone? I'm guessing censorship issues denied Mr Producer the chance to get the sapphic activities of these two lovely ladies on film: if you're watching this film to get your kicks you'll be disappointed.Hot lesbian #1 becomes obsessed with taking photos of dead animals. This plot strand takes up about an hour of the film, before it sinks into a dull rip-off of 8mm, Lost Highway, and Ringu. Hot lesbian #2 has little to do except stand around looking hot, and getting into sexy arguments. The shocks aren't shocking, and the gore isn't gory. If you're scared watching this, then you should steer well clear of Scooby Doo. Odd filters and silly jump editing do not a horror film make.The ending is ridiculous, and you will certainly feel cheated if and when you suffer the misfortune of watching this film. I don't know what 'Oxide Pang' was thinking. Perhaps he was thinking 'i can't think of a proper ending... i'll just make it up as i go along'. Not that it matters much, because it's so badly edited and lit you can hardly see what happens anyway.English-speaking viewers will be hampered by the ludicrously bad subtitles. At one point, a character asking (presumably)'why the long face' has her words translated as 'why are you so lengthy of countenance?'. Some lines aren't translated at all.If this hyperactive, under-lit, overwrought and incomprehensible film is the new face of bold Asian horror cinema then I'm Jackie Chan. You will regret watching this. It is almost an hour and half of your life that you could do far better things with. Visit your grandmother. Cook your wife a meal. Just don't for God's sake watch Abnormal Beauty.

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André (afdiazr)

The Pang Brothers know their stuff when it comes to visual style. This movie is a proof. It's visually flawless. Beautiful photography, nice camera tricks, gorgeous looking leads and eerie atmospheres, but that's as far as it goes. Oh… And the sound is nicely done too. In some ways this film is like The Crow: City of Angels, an absolute feast for the eye, but it delivers no content to back it up. And it gets boring in some parts, since you don't really give too much about the characters. The so-called violent scenes at the end are a letdown –that's if you're looking for something truly disturbing. It's well done, and creepy in some parts. The killer's method was a great idea, with all the cameras and the sound of him approaching. I loved that. But at the end it's like if someone mixed Beverly Hills 90210 with Thesis (the Spanish flick). If that's your cup of tea, then this movie is for you.Watch it on a nice home system. You will get it's full blow.

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