INT: Oxide Pang Chun

Last Updated on July 28, 2021

Arrow in the Head
Interviews
 Oxide Pang Chun

I’m sure you
guys have heard of the dynamic directing duo that is The Pang Brothers. If
not, well they’re the gentlemen behind the potent ghost affairs, The Eye and
The Eye 2. Now and then brothers
Oxide Pang
and Danny Pang like to split up and go direct solo. That went down recently
with  Oxide going his own way to helm
Ab-Normal Beauty

(Now available on DVD via Tartan Films).
Oxide took some time to drop some minute bombs (Not the talkie type…is
he?) at the site and here’s what flittered out.

What was the initial
creative spark that made you put fingers to keyboard and pen Ab – Normal
Beauty?

I got the
idea for ‘Ab-Normal Beauty’ from a photography called ‘The Portrait of
the Dead’.  Pictures really have the quality to attract people’s
attention, there is a beauty in those pictures, it ‘s so spooky but you have
to see it.

Did you have
something to say via this film, a social commentary if you will, or was your
goal mainly and solely to thrill the viewer?

People
believe there is nothing to share between the terms death and beauty. But
death from another angle could be something beautiful in its own way.

What would you say
was the hardest scene to shoot on a technical standpoint?

When Race
(Race Wong who plays Jiney)  was standing outside a fence on a 10th
floor rooftop with wires on her.

Your film goes in
tandem with your brother’s “Leave Me Alone" since both storylines were
sprung off the same incident (car crash). What was the reasoning behind
tying both films together?

It’s the
start of the film, using the car accident to spark the storyline.

Ab Normal Beauty
deals with one’s unhealthy obsession with death. How do you personally deal
with the notion that you too will die one day?

I believe in an
afterlife and in ghosts.

What would you say
are the main differences between directing alone and directing with your
brother?

When we
both find a story interesting and we can both input a lot of ideas together
into the movie, we know that’s the movie we should work on together.
And usually at the beginning of developing the film, if one of us doesn’t
find the topic that interesting, that person will atomically withdraw from
the process, no conflicts really.

It has just been
announced that you and your brother will be tackling THE DARKNESS next for
Platinum Studios and
Blue Star Pictures. Where is the film at right now and when are you slated
to shoot?

No
comment at this time.

Is
there anything you want to tell us as to your goals with The Darkness?

I hope American
audiences like my film and want to see more films that I’ve made. And I’m a
Star War fan if you want to buy me gifts. : )

If
you buy me some First Blood/Rambo 2/Rambo 3 figurines; I’ll buy you some
Star Wars stuff…deal? : )

BUY THE AB-NORMAL BEAUTY DVD HERE

Thanks to Oxide for giving the site a shot,
keep up the good work hombre! I’ll be checking out Ab-Normal Beauty soon.

VISIT THE TARTAN FILMS AB NORMAL BEAUTY PAGE HERE