Omen (2005)

Twin filmmakers Oxide and Danny Pang, who delivered the creepy 2002 hit film THE EYE, forfeit the director's chair for writing and producing with THE OMEN, though their touch is still very much in evidence. Director Tamaraks Kamutamanoch executes their vision with striking results, with popular Thai trio D2B heading up the cast. Dan, Beam, and Big are young men just discovering the rote realities of the workaday world; best friends since they were kids, they now all toil away for a design magazine. That is until one night that will change the course of their lives forever, when the three leave work after an argument and go their separate ways, each having an eerie, unexplainable encounter. The prophecies of a strange old woman are continually fulfilled as the night wears on, leading the boys to believe that one will die before the coming of day. Can they stop the course of fate? Atmospheric, surprising, and utterly engrossing, this hair-raising excursion sports stunning effects and cinematography, and its underlying themes of Buddhism and the power of friendship mark it as quintessential Pang brothers material.