Ab-normal Beauty

Infobox Film
name = Ab-normal Beauty


caption = The Hong Kong theatrical poster.
director = Oxide Pang
producer = The Pang Brothers
writer = Oxide Pang
Thomas Pang
narrator =
starring = Race Wong
Rosanne Wong
music = Payont Permsith
cinematography = Decha Srimantra
editing = Curran Pang
distributor = Tartan Films
released = Hong Kong:
November 4, 2004
United Kingdom:
September 23, 2005
runtime = 88 min.
country = Hong Kong
language = Cantonese
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
website =
amg_id = 1:331524
imdb_id = 0434762

"Ab-normal Beauty" (死亡写真) (also "Sei mong se jun") is a 2004 Hong Kong thriller film directed and co-written by Oxide Pang. It stars Race Wong and Rosanne Wong of the Cantopop group 2R.

Plot

Jiney, an art student, takes a photograph of a dying victim at a car accident (see also "Leave Me Alone"), and becomes obsessed with death. Jiney is also stalked by a classmate, Anson. Her girlfriend, Jas, is concerned about Jiney's obsession, and helps Jiney face her troubled past, in which she was sexually abused by her cousin as a child. Jiney then receives a snuff tape, and finds herself stalked by a serial killer.

Cast

*Race Wong as Jiney
*Rosanne Wong as Jas
*Anson Leung as Anson
*Michelle Mee as Jiney's mother
*Cub Chin as Professor
*Ekin Cheng as Man in car crash

Production and release

"Ab-normal Beauty" was followed by a companion film, "Leave Me Alone", directed by Danny Pang, which stems from the same fatal car crash. It stars Ekin Cheng in a dual role as the driver in the car crash and as the man's twin brother, and Charlene Choi.

"Ab-normal Beauty" has screened at several film festivals, including the Asian American International Film Festival in New York City, the Gérardmer Fantasticarts Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film, Titanic International Filmpresence Festival, München Fantasy Filmfest, Lund International Fantastic Film Festival and the Cinemanila Film Festival.

It was released on DVD by Tartan Films on December 26, 2005.

External links

*imdb title|id=0434762|title=Ab-normal Beauty
*amg movie|id=1:331524|title=Ab-normal Beauty
*rotten-tomatoes|id=1153806-ab_normal_beauty|title=Ab-normal Beauty