Horror with a green heart

Re-Cycle is a typical Pang brothers horror flick. Danny and Oxide Pang, the hottest directors in the horror genre in Asia, offer a technically classy visual feast that lacks a solid plot but will keep you on the edge of your seat.

The story revolves around a best-selling fiction writer Chu Xun (Angelica Lee Sinje), who struggles to finish her latest book, Gwai Wik ('ghost realm'). After scrapping the first draft, she is haunted by a series of supernatural incidents, such as seeing a long-haired ghost in her apartment and receiving strange phone calls from ghoulish voices.

The scary moments are executed in typically cliched horror film fashion: terror is expressed through clever camerawork, eerie lighting and creepy music.

Very few scenes in the film are truly scary, although the filmmakers are successful in building up a spooky atmosphere.

The script, unfortunately, is paper thin and Lee's character is too sketchy for a full-length feature.

But, the Pang brothers offer us perhaps the most chilling visuals of hell in modern cinema to compensate for the lack of a good story.