Oxide Pang Chun Movies
Oxide Pang was born in Hong Kong in 1967 where he worked as a VTR operator. He later moved to Bangkok and began to work as an editor and telecine film specialist but has also written scripts and produced Super 8 and 16mm films. Ta Fa Likit (1997) is his first feature film. ~ Gönül Dönmez-Colin, Rovi
- 2011
Detective Tam is back to stop the killer responsible for a series of grisly murders in Thailand. ~ Sarah Block, Rovi
A group of Hong Kong vacationers get stuck in Thailand, and fall prey to malevolent entities in a crumbling hotel with a dark history. Bickering couple Rainie (Raine Yang) and Lok (Shawn Yue) are vacationing in Thailand with their four friends when the political climate in the country turns suddenly hostile. When political protestors shut down the airport, the group hunkers down in a nearby hotel to lie low until the strife blows over. Meanwhile, members of the group begin vanishing into thin air, and little girl with a dog claims that the hotel is haunted by a mysterious half-human/half-canine creature. Though the taciturn owner of the hotel (Gordon Lam) denies any knowledge of strange goings-on, it's up to the trapped vacationers to coax out the truth so that the wandering dead can finally rest in peace. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- 2010
Stranded travelers discover an inn where they are clearly not welcome in this thriller from the sibling filmmaking team of Danny Pang and Oxide Pang. Six friends from Hong Kong are traveling in Thailand -- Ciwi (Ciwi Lam), who is very much love with Hei (Rex Ho); Rainie (Rainie Yang), whose relationship with Lok (Shawn Yue) is on its last legs; and Rex (Izz Xu) and his sister Ling (Elanne Kwong). The group is ready to board a plane home when political protests lead to a shutdown at the airport, and they need a place to stay for the night. With few options, they book rooms at a shabby hotel run by ill-mannered Chuen (Lam Ka Tung). The guests happen upon a curious dog and a handful of strange children in the night, and the next morning, Hei, Lok, and Rex have all vanished without a trace. As Ciwi, Rainie and Ling try to find out what happened, they learn the hotel has a history of being haunted, and the dog may hold the key to the mystery. The first Hong Kong horror movie filmed in 3D, Tungngaan 3D (aka The Child's Eye 3D) was an official selection at the 2010 Venice Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
An epic battle is played out by warriors harnessing the power of the elements in this effects-laden fantasy /action drama from the sibling directing team of Oxide Pang and Danny Pang. The brave Lord Nameless (Kenny Ho) is the leader of a band of heroic warriors with remarkable powers and skills. Nameless's nemesis, Lord Godless (Simon Yam), is a warlord from Japan with designs on Nameless's territory in China, and in a daring raid he captures Nameless, imprisons his soldiers and takes control of his land. As things look hopeless, three of Nameless's allies set out to free him: Cloud (Aaron Kwok), Wind (Ekin Cheng) and Chu Chu (Yan Tang). The three warriors call upon Lord Wicked (Wong Tak-bun) for help, while Cloud absorbs Nameless's powers and gifts for sword fighting and Godless's son Heart (Nicholas Tse) runs wild across his father's new property. As Cloud absorbs what he's learned from Nameless and Wind is tutored in combat by Wicked, can they fend off Godless, Heart and their allies? Fung Wan II (aka The Storm Warriors) is a sequel to the 1998 blockbuster Fung Wan: Hung Ba Tin Ha (aka The Storm Riders); both films were adapted from stories from Ma Wing-shing's long-running comic book series. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Starring:
- Ekin Cheng, Aaron Kwok, (more)
- 2009
How do teenagers caught up in the throes of mid-adolescence contend with unrequited affections and the confusion and emotional conflicts wrought by the death of a loved one? Such are the questions at the heart of this youth-oriented melodrama from horror vet Oxide Pang. Asian pop-culture idols Elanne Kong, Rex Ho and Janice Man star, respectively, as Ling, Rex and June. Best friends for years, the trio find comfort and solace in one another, as well as romantic interest. Unfortunately, those desires go at least partially unrequited; June harbors a crush on Rex, and Rex harbors a crush on Ling, and the odd number of the trio prevents them from straightening out these incongruities. Meanwhile, a graver crisis surfaces: Ling receives the diagnosis that she is dying of leukemia. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
Original Bangkok Dangerous directors Danny and Oxide Pang return to familiar territory with this remake of their own popular 1999 thriller about a ruthless hitman (Nicolas Cage) who travels to Bangkok in order to carry out four crucial jobs. During the course of his missions, the triggerman falls in love with a pretty local girl while also forming a friendly bond with his young errand boy. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Nicolas Cage, Charlie Young, (more)
Sydney Wells (Jessica Alba) has been given the gift of sight, but it comes with a horrifying price in the English-language remake of Danny and Oxide Pang's The Eye. The double corneal transplant was to open up a new world for Sydney, a concert violinist whose blindness has plagued her since childhood. With the help of Dr. Paul Faulkner (Alessandro Nivola) and sister Helen (Parker Posey), Sydney's operation and recovery seemed to be on the road to success -- until horrific images start to tear their way into her newfound vision. What's worse is that these episodes appear to foreshadow future deadly events, leading Sydney on a mission to track down the person whose eyes she has inherited and discover what kind of mystery from beyond the grave lies before her. The film is directed by David Moreau and Xavier Palud, the duo behind the acclaimed 2006 French terror flick Them, and is produced by Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner under their Cruise/Wagner production banner. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi
- Starring:
- Jessica Alba, Alessandro Nivola, (more)
- 2008
Aaron Kwok stars as a seedy Thailand detective named Tan who becomes drawn into a deadly mystery after his best friend claims that he's being pursued by a murderous femme fatale. Trouble is, each new clue that Tan unearths leads him ever deeper into a deadly world of intrigue. As the body count begins to add up and Tan vows to discover the mystery woman's identity even if it costs him his life, it begins to appear that he, too, has been marked for death. Oxide Pang directs a script penned in collaboration with fellow scribe Thomas Pang. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Aaron Kwok, Liu Kai-chi, (more)
A homicide detective, a botanist with some unconventional theories, and his tabloid TV reporter girlfriend attempt to solve a gruesome murder in this high-concept thriller from The Eye and Bangkok Dangerous director Danny Pang. Botany student Steven is convinced that plants are sentient. He's recently written a doctorate paper on the theory, and spends much of his spare time attempting to prove that plants have a language all their own. Steven's girlfriend Mary works for a major television station, and thanks to a series of sensationalistic reports her career is on the upswing. When the Prime Minister's daughter is abducted, raped, and murdered, the police quickly arrest the prime suspect, a man named Eric. But is Eric really guilty of this heinous crime? In order to find out the truth, Steven conducts a series of tests in hopes that the forest itself may provide an eyewitness account of the brutal crime. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Shu Qi, Ekin Cheng, (more)
Hong Kong horror specialists Danny and Oxide Pang (The Eye, Bangkok Haunted) ponder the paranormal sensitivities of young innocents in this tale of an unsuspecting family who falls prey to a malevolent entity after moving to into a haunted sunflower farm. Roy (Dylan McDermott) and Denise Solomon (Penelope Ann Miller) have decided to give up life in Chicago and relocate their family to secluded North Dakota sunflower farm. While the tranquil sway of the lush yellow fields at first offers a welcomed reprieve from the hustle and bustle of the big city, the family soon begins to suspect that they are not alone on the farm when teenage daughter Jess (Kristen Stewart) and her three-year-old brother, Ben (Evan Turner), begin to see a series of menacing apparitions that are apparently invisible to adult eyes. As Jess and Ben's encounters with the malevolent spirits grow increasingly violent, the parents of the tormented teen soon begin to question their daughter's sanity. Soon, the dark history of the family that once lived in the remote farm and the troubled past of the frightened Jess begin to merge as she struggles to warn her parents about the terrifying confrontation with the supernatural that is about to unfold. John Corbett, Jodelle Ferland, and Brent Briscoe co-star in a rural tale of terror from Ghosthouse Pictures and producer Sam Raimi. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Kristen Stewart, Dylan McDermott, (more)
A mentally disturbed girl mistakes a man on the street for the boyfriend who walked out of her life without a sound, only to find out just how deceiving appearances can be in director Oxide Pang's mind-bending psychological thriller. Winnie Leung (Charlene Choi) is a rather plain girl who spends most of her days in her apartment cooking, carving wooden dolls, and waiting quietly alone for her boyfriend, Seth (Shawn Yue), to return. One day, after recording Seth's furtive departure in her diary, Winnie ventures out onto the streets and makes acquaintances with a kind and handsome stranger named Ray (also Yue) after mistaking him for the missing Seth. Later revealing over lunch that Seth had apparently been killed in a tragic car accident, Winnie and Ray form a warm bond, and she eventually invites him to move in with her. As Winnie and Ray gradually begin to grow closer, the parallels between her new relationship with Ray and her old relationship with Seth begin to shed an entirely different light on the events of the recent past. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Charlene Choi, Shawn Yue, (more)
When a prominent young author working on her latest novel begins to experience a series of frightening visions, she soon becomes convinced that her latest work is attempting to draw her into an eerie parallel universe in a horrifying tale of fact meets fiction from The Eye directors Danny and Oxide Pang. Ting-yen has risen to much acclaim in the literary community, but in the process of penning her latest novel, the popular writer soon begins to receive visions of a deeply-disturbing alternate reality. As her mind attempts to process the strange visions and the draw of the book becomes ever more powerful, Ting-yen is compelled to tear the pages from her manuscript and discard them in the recycle bin. Unfortunately for Ting-yen, her efforts to purge herself of the strange story only seem to provide the catalyst needed for the malevolent characters to fully manifest themselves in the real world. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Lee Sin-Je, Lau Siu-Ming, (more)
The spirit world continues to bleed into reality in Danny and Oxide Pang's supernatural shocker about a group of vacationing teens who happen across a book that teaches the reader how to summon ghosts. May (Kate Yeung and her brother Ted (Chen Bo-lin) are vacationing in Thailand with Ko-fai (Kris Gu) and April (Isabella Long) when a local friend introduces them to a book highlighting ten ways to make contact with the spirit realm. When the methods prove successful, May and Ted suddenly and mysteriously disappear. Now it's up to Ko-fai and April to find the siblings before they are lost forever. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Chen Bo-lin, Yu Gu, (more)
Visionary Asian horror directors the Pang Brothers offer another disconcerting look at the spirits of the dead in this sequel to their international hit The Eye. Joey Cheng (Shu Qi) is a woman who has been given to deep mood swings, which isn't helped by the fact her relationship with her boyfriend, Sam (Jesdaporn Pholdee), is crumbling. In a moment of despair, Joey takes an overdose of sleeping pills in an apparent suicide attempt. Joey survives the incident, but discovers that she's pregnant with Sam's child, putting her in another difficult situation. Joey decides to keep the baby, but she soon discovers another strange side effect of her brush with death -- she can now see ghosts, especially when she's in the presence of children and pregnant women, and is frequently haunted by the spirit of a women attempting to kill herself near a railroad track. As the ghost begins visiting more and more often, Joey becomes convinced the spirit wants to enter the body of her unborn child. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
Members of the Hong Kong pop group 2Rs star in director Oxide Pang's Ab-normal Beauty. Race Wong plays Jin, a talented art student whose photographs routinely win her school's prizes. Race's older sister Rosanne Wong plays Jas, Jin's best friend, with whom she shares an extremely intimate relationship. Despite the accolades she receives, Jin is dissatisfied with her work. One day, she witnesses a fatal car accident, and impulsively turns her camera on the dying victim. It's a breakthrough for Jin, and she begins to grow more and more obsessed with photographing death. Jin is being pursued by Anson (Anson Leung of One Night in Mongkok), a fellow student who follows her around with a camcorder. Jin tries to make it clear to Anson that she's not interested, but he continues to dog her. As Jin becomes more and more obsessive about death images, she begins flashing back to a traumatic childhood incident of sexual abuse. Jas helps her to confront her past, but just as it seems she is ready to move on with her life, she receives a portfolio of disturbing photos and a videotape of what appears to be a woman being tortured to death. Ab-normal Beauty had its U.S. Premiere at the 2005 Asian American International Film Festival. ~ Josh Ralske, Rovi
- Starring:
- Race Wong, Rosanne Wong, (more)
Top-selling Thai boy band D2B show off another side of their talents in this supernatural thriller. Dan, Beem, and Big are three friends who meet a strange elderly woman who makes some disturbing predictions about their futures. While the three of them follow different paths over the course of the next 24 hours, each is thrown into a strange and threatening situation that bears some resemblance to the old woman's story. What fate will meet them when they next meet? ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
From Oxide Pang, co-director of the international horror sensation The Eye, comes this stylish and high-tension adaptation of the book by The Beach author Alex Garland. As drug dealer Sean (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) and documentary filmmaker Rosa (Saskia Reeves) sit anxiously in a rundown Bangkok hotel, a series of intricately woven flashbacks reveal dangerous ties to a rising but powerful mob boss, a fearsome female assassin, and an anguished psychiatrist. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Saskia Reeves, (more)
A corneal transplant sets the stage for terror in this supernatural thriller from directors Danny and Oxide Pang. Blind from the age of two, 20-year-old Mann (Angelica Lee) now has a chance to reclaim her sense of sight thanks to recent breakthroughs in technology. At first elated to have her vision restored, Mann's joy soon turns to paralyzing fear when she begins to see mysterious dark figures which foreshadow sudden, shocking deaths. Subsequently distraught over seeing Ling (Chutcha Rujinanon), the previous owner of the corneas, when she peers into the mirror, Mann's disturbing images slowly begin to chip away at her sanity until she has no choice but to track Ling's past and solve the horrifying mystery that plagues her. Traveling to Ling's former home in a small Northern Thailand village, Mann learns that Ling was driven to suicide after suffering similar visions preceding a tragic fire. When hundreds of the mysterious black figures descend upon Mann just as she is about to leave Thailand, she realizes that a horrific tragedy is set to unfold unless she can summon the courage to take action and use her supernatural gift of sight to alter the future. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Lee Sin-Je, Lawrence Chou, (more)
Oxide Pang's fast-paced, MTV-inspired One Take Only stars Pawalit Mongkolpisit as Mak, a Bangkok street urchin who spends his days hanging out, getting high, and occasionally running drugs or guns for the local gangsters. He meets and quickly falls in love with a teenage prostitute who lives in his housing project, and they embark on a dingy love affair. Dreaming of a better life, they get deeper and deeper over their heads in the drug trade, which leads, inevitably, to tragedy. ~ Tom Vick, Rovi
- Starring:
- Pawalit Mongkolpisit
Join horror specialists Oxide Pang (The Eye) and Pisuth Praesang-lam for a terrifying trip into the unknown in this frightful collection of three skin-crawling tales that are sure to give viewers more than a few sleepless nights. When an antiques dealer discovers an ancient instrument that appears to open a gateway between two worlds, she soon finds that you may never truly know yourself as well as you think you do in "Legend of the Drum." An aphrodisiac that claims to be the most potent way of attracting the opposite sex around proves more effective than a customer ever imagined in the cautionary tale "Black Magic Woman," and a haunted police cadet in search of the truth behind a young girl's suicide finds that some mysteries are better left unsolved in "Revenge." With no limits and style to spare, Pang and Pisuth pull out all the stops to push viewers to the absolute limits of fear. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
A hired killer gives up his career for love in this stylish crime drama from Thailand. Kong (Pawalit Mongkolpisit) is a hit man who never speaks as he carries out his deadly assignments. Kong has begun to grow tired of his life of crime, and becomes infatuated with Fon (Premsinee Ratanasopha), a beautiful young woman who works as an assistant in a drugstore. As Kong tries to win the affections of Fon, he decides to turn against the gangsters who control him, and use his skills to earn his freedom. Bangkok Dangerous was directed by the brother team of Danny Pang and Oxide Pang; Oxide previously directed Who Is Running. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- 1998
A highly entertaining film, Ta Fa Likit easily became a blockbuster hit in Thailand. Reflecting a Buddhist perspective, the film is the story of a would-be groom who is determined to save the endangered soul of his beloved bride from the mischief caused by a malicious reincarnated spirit residing within a German Shepherd. The encounter leaves the woman, Waan, in a coma, and her fiance Jeab with only a short time in which to save the lives of five more people who are destined to die. Jeab learns of his daunting task when a mysterious priest steps from the shadows and tells him it is the only way to spare Waan's soul. Jeab, previously an atheist, takes the priest's advice and hits the streets of Bangkok in hopes of finding enough people to rescue. A newspaper dated the next day, helps him with his quest. The setting brings to mind Between Two Worlds, the classic fantasy of Fritz Lang. Director Oxide Pang integrates present-day urban Bangkok with Buddhism and jumps from past to present to future with ease. The fast flow of the film is reminiscent of Hong Kong television films, which is where Pang comes from. The ending is a real surprise. ~ Gönül Dönmez-Colin, Rovi
- Starring:
- Sonya Kunadorn, Nattarika Thumpridanun, (more)
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