''Re-cycle'' (

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horror film directed by

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and starring

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. The film was the closing film in the

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program at the

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. It was also a reunion for the Pangs and the actress Lee, who starred in the Pangs' 2002 hit '' The Eye''. It is a

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co-production.

Plot

Ting-yin, a young

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, is struggling to come up with a follow-up to her best-selling trilogy of romance novels. She has not even started on the book yet and her agent has already announced that the next title, ''The Recycle'', will deal with the

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. 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.

Cast

as Ting-yin/Chu Xun *

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as Abby * Siu-Ming Lau *

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Controversy

Ting-yin finds herself in a parallel universe where abandoned things end up, including

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es, which combined with the portrayal of the main character's personal demons regarding her own aborted child leads some critics to believe the film carries an

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message. "That just happens to be one of the topics in the movie. We are not out to say if abortion is right or wrong", Oxide Pang said in one interview.Tan, Jeanine (6 July 2006)
"It's a horror film, not a crusade"

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References

External links

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