NateWatchesCoolMovies What do you get if you take a mixing bowl and toss in The Cell, The Grudge, some Stephen King, Alice In Wonderland, The Lovely Bones and a not-too-subtle anti abortion message? You get ReCycle, a visually unbelievable, absolutely terrifying, boundlessly imaginative Chinese horror fantasy that no one saw, got overlooked to the max, and occupies an eternal spot in my DVD collection. Novelist Tsui (The Eye's Anjelica Lee) is suffering from writer's block following two bestsellers, expected by her publisher to churn out another one posthaste. Plagued at first by paranormal visions in her apartment, she's suddenly thrown headlong into the otherworldly dimension of ReCycle, a place that can turn from beautiful to hellish and back again within minutes. Picture a surreal, abstract realm where everything that's ever lost, forgotten or abandoned ends up, thrown together in a gorgeous but threatening dream world with various levels, planes and passages, seemingly endless and never predictable. The dead also reside here, as she soon learns, some of which don't take kindly to intruders and can be pretty volatile. Forced to flee from one area of the realm to others and beyond, she's joined by the spirit of a lost little girl, and put through one hell of time trying to find her way out. Included are dilapidated, haunted amusement parks, fields and mountains that extend for millions of miles, eerie forests where the ghosts of hanged prisoners leer out at them, vast crumbling cities, acres of forgotten children's toys and in the film's most wtf sequence, a giant gooey room filled with aborted fetuses that spring to life and slime anyone within reach. That's right, the filmmakers aren't really subtle with their pro-life sentiment, especially near the end, but as long as you can get past that, the rest is all incredible. The sheer scope of the film commands attention though, and anyone who daydreams or lets their imagination run wild will get an absolute kick out of it. It's kind of like the world's weirdest video game in cinematic form, structured like a play-through but given all the disorienting unease of your worst nightmare.

Tokyo-1997 This movie is an average movie for me. This movie is about a woman who aborts a child and is being sent to this other world where things are being recycled. Her child was there as well. This movie has a relatively decent storyline with a very very touching scene. This movie is entertaining in many ways. The other world was just done so so well and so original. I loved it. However, some of the scenes tried to be scary but it just didn't work. Pratically none of the scenes are scary to me. I thought it would be good if more things were being explained about this other world and I thought it would be good if there was more adventure which the main character could experience in this other world with the young girl. It would be good if this movie had been longer. This movie is very well paced and very touching. Possibly one of the most touching movies I have seen. This movie is quite nice and original in various ways. The other world was just done very well. You can just see a chunk of thrown away materials and stuff being found in the other world. This movie is recommended definitely. I thought that this movie was even better than shows such as The eye or the eye 2. Score: 7.6/10

Jan Strydom RE-CYCLE is a visually stunning and also a thought provoking film, it certainly makes you wonder about the things you discarded, as it is set in a world created by things and ideas that people abandoned over the years, the story begins when a novelist decides to write a horror novel and unknowingly opens the door to an alternate dimension that is home to all the things people have rejected in life.The film gets you thinking in an odd way about as I said before about things people discard, directed by the Pang brothers who also did the better version of THE EYE, it is a very well made film, it may start off as a scary horror film but as soon as the main character enters this other world, the film strays from its horror elements and becomes more of an ALICE IN WONDERLAND story only its not for kids, you can also tell that one of the films influences is SILENT HILL, as you might notice a few nods towards a few similar ideas.The storyline is of course very original and extremely intelligent, I recommend this film to any horror or film fan in general, you will certainly be treated to a visually gripping film

heavenlykorea2009 I have read many of the comments here and i see that this movie isn't for everyone. Many says it has horrible scripts, and unfinished story lines and so on, and i cannot see anything of this.It's a matter about how you look at the story. Asians has a very poetic point of view when it's about making horror movies, unlike all other horror movies from western. Don't look at this movie and expect gore scenes or pure actions or what so ever.This movie was made, only to following the meaning of a thoughts, of life and death, it's a symbolic movie, it was made to not have any "direct" story line. This movie is a visualization, transformed directly from the words.While folks from the western are used to see movies that has a concrete story, and acting actress by that, this movie is more meant for people that likes to angle their point of view and aspects on the meaning of life and death. The brother Pang has done an excellent work on this one, even better than the movie The Eye!