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Ab-normal Beauty
The Hong Kong theatrical poster.
Directed byOxide Pang
Written byOxide Pang
Thomas Pang
Produced byThe Pang Brothers
StarringRace Wong
Rosanne Wong
CinematographyDecha Srimantra
Edited byCurran Pang
Music byPayont Permsith
Distributed byTartan Films
Release date
  • 4 November 2004 (2004-11-04)
Running time
88 minutes
CountryHong Kong
LanguageCantonese

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

Plot

Jiney, an art and photography student, wins an award for her work. Her male friend and co-student, Anson, congratulates her but she tells him that although she won an award, she is unhappy with the work. Her friend Jas, who she lives with, takes her from school on a 'date' and they went out to take photographs. Jiney's mother tells her that she is going away on business for a month. Later, she witnesses a fatal car accident (see also Leave Me Alone) and takes photographs of it. She finds herself obsessed with death and begins to take photographs of more explicit death subjects - chickens being killed, fish being scaled, dead birds and others. She talks about suicide, and there are flashbacks to an apparent incident from her youth when she was sexually abused by some young boys..

Cast