Advantages: Touching story, good performance by Angelica Lee Disadvantages: The story falls down in parts
...because it is directed by the Pang Brothers, famous for several Hong Kong/Thai films and also because I wanted to break the long line of Korean horrors I have been watching. The great thing about Asian film is that I have rarely heard much about the film beforehand, which means I can watch without any expectations. On the whole, this was a good film, although certainly not the best I have seen. Still, it makes a pleasant change from the perhaps more ... ...who has been blind since the age of two, has a cornea transplant. The operation is a success; her vision is virtually reinstored. All should be well, but there is one problem. Mun is able to see things that other people can't and eventually she realises that she can see the dead. Sometimes they are harmless enough; other times they are very threatening. In addition, her bedroom keeps turning into someone else's. Terrified, she seeks the help of a ...
sunmeilan 17.12.2006
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Advantages: Excellent ghost story that will scare you sh**less. Disadvantages: Very derivative of other horror flicks
The Chinese really know how to scare the bejeezus out of an audience. The Eye is basically an eastern take on The Sixth Sense but uses its conceit so well and manages to manipulate audiences expectations to come up with something far scarier.
Mun undergoes eye surgery to save her own sight, very soon after the bandages come off it becomes clear the procedure was a resounding success. However Mun soon begins to see terrifying visons of people seemingly ... ...and she soon pieces together the puzzle that the corneas she received in the transplant belonged to someone with a rare and terrifying gift, the ability to see the recently departed.
If you think this sounds like too much like The Sixth Senese you'd be forgiven, but this film is an altogether scarier beast.
Witness the scene in a lift where Mun becomes aware of a floating, faceless corpse behind her when the CCTV shows she is all alone, as she ...
jontyp56 11.02.2006 (12.02.2006)
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Advantages: original, genuinely unnerving in places Disadvantages: Maybe too slow-paced for some not a Hollywood style horror
Directed by the Pang brothers and part of the tartan extreme dvd series. Starring Angelica Lee.
The story evolves around Mun , a twenty year old who has been blind since she was two. She has a newly developed operation which basically involves a transplant of her corneas. The operation is a success but along with her new found vision she starts to see images which become increasingly disturbing. The gradual realisation that she can see what others ... ...to find out more about the operation which has so radically changed her life. With the help of the young doctor who is overseeing her recovery from the operation, Mun tries to discover more about the donor for her operation. I do not want to spoil the film but this leads Mun to the girl's home and she begins to unravel her tragic life. The film reaches its climax neatly with the answers to her quest falling in to place. The pacing of the movie is ...
dan654321 20.04.2006
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Production Year: 2000 - Horror - Director: Keenen Ivory Wayans - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Carmen Electra, Anna Faris, Kurt Fuller, James Van Der Beek, Keenen Ivory Wayans
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