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Has anyone seen this film?
If you haven't, heres a brief review:
The Eye rides in on the eastern supernatural bandwagon that was started by Ring.
This chiller comes from the Pang brothers- Danny and Oxide(Oxide, you say?)
flashing out its haunting, atmospheric images by exploring the emotional and psychological dimensions of it's lead characters hallucinatory nightmare.
At the age of two, Wong Kar Mann lost her vision. Since that time she has lived with that handicap but now, reaching the age of 20, she has the possibility to regain her vision with a risky corneal transplant operation. After the successfully operation, Mann's vision is starting to get better and little by little she can almost see perfectly.
After getting used to her new situation, Mann has started to notice some really strange effects. It seems that she cans see people that no one else can notice. Are they really ghosts? And who are those strange shadows that sometime come around the living people. With the help of her new psychiatric guide, she will try to solve that problem, which will lead her to a small village in Thailand were the original corneal owner lived before she died. Will Mann be able to find out what happened to the previous dead owner and finally get rid of her curse and live a normal life again?
By reading the synopsis you are probably telling yourself "Not a I see dead people movie again!" Yes it's true that the main premise is very similar to another very popular American movie, but I can tell you that The Eye has nothing to envy from other movies of the same genre. The story is very well built, maybe a bit slow paced in the middle but always keeps a good nervous rhythm that will keep you tense during the entire movie. I would say that the structure of the movie is very similar to the Japanese movie Ring, in a sense that there's not many frightening moments during the whole movie until the final ending which just explodes(literally)in your face.
Another element that makes the movie a stunning achievement is the sound and music. The Pang brothers have probably listened to Japanese director Hideo Nakata when he said that music and sound are a very important part of a scary movie. The music of The Eye fits very well with the atmosphere of the movie and the sound effects really gives you the creep during those really tense moments. A very well done job on that side indeed.
The film is subtitled, which may seem like a letdown, but it's actually fine, which i am sure alot of you know,who have seen asian films in the past.
I don't know if SR have this on DVD, but if they do GET IT! And I also strongly recommend you go see it in the cinema for added affect.
A truly magnificint film.
If you haven't, heres a brief review:
The Eye rides in on the eastern supernatural bandwagon that was started by Ring.
This chiller comes from the Pang brothers- Danny and Oxide(Oxide, you say?)
flashing out its haunting, atmospheric images by exploring the emotional and psychological dimensions of it's lead characters hallucinatory nightmare.
At the age of two, Wong Kar Mann lost her vision. Since that time she has lived with that handicap but now, reaching the age of 20, she has the possibility to regain her vision with a risky corneal transplant operation. After the successfully operation, Mann's vision is starting to get better and little by little she can almost see perfectly.
After getting used to her new situation, Mann has started to notice some really strange effects. It seems that she cans see people that no one else can notice. Are they really ghosts? And who are those strange shadows that sometime come around the living people. With the help of her new psychiatric guide, she will try to solve that problem, which will lead her to a small village in Thailand were the original corneal owner lived before she died. Will Mann be able to find out what happened to the previous dead owner and finally get rid of her curse and live a normal life again?
By reading the synopsis you are probably telling yourself "Not a I see dead people movie again!" Yes it's true that the main premise is very similar to another very popular American movie, but I can tell you that The Eye has nothing to envy from other movies of the same genre. The story is very well built, maybe a bit slow paced in the middle but always keeps a good nervous rhythm that will keep you tense during the entire movie. I would say that the structure of the movie is very similar to the Japanese movie Ring, in a sense that there's not many frightening moments during the whole movie until the final ending which just explodes(literally)in your face.
Another element that makes the movie a stunning achievement is the sound and music. The Pang brothers have probably listened to Japanese director Hideo Nakata when he said that music and sound are a very important part of a scary movie. The music of The Eye fits very well with the atmosphere of the movie and the sound effects really gives you the creep during those really tense moments. A very well done job on that side indeed.
The film is subtitled, which may seem like a letdown, but it's actually fine, which i am sure alot of you know,who have seen asian films in the past.
I don't know if SR have this on DVD, but if they do GET IT! And I also strongly recommend you go see it in the cinema for added affect.
A truly magnificint film.
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Has anyone seen this film?
If you haven't, heres a brief review:
The Eye rides in on the eastern supernatural bandwagon that was started by Ring.
This chiller comes from the Pang brothers- Danny and Oxide(Oxide, you say?)
flashing out its haunting, atmospheric images by exploring the emotional and psychological dimensions of it's lead characters hallucinatory nightmare.
At the age of two, Wong Kar Mann lost her vision. Since that time she has lived with that handicap but now, reaching the age of 20, she has the possibility to regain her vision with a risky corneal transplant operation. After the successfully operation, Mann's vision is starting to get better and little by little she can almost see perfectly.
After getting used to her new situation, Mann has started to notice some really strange effects. It seems that she cans see people that no one else can notice. Are they really ghosts? And who are those strange shadows that sometime come around the living people. With the help of her new psychiatric guide, she will try to solve that problem, which will lead her to a small village in Thailand were the original corneal owner lived before she died. Will Mann be able to find out what happened to the previous dead owner and finally get rid of her curse and live a normal life again?
By reading the synopsis you are probably telling yourself "Not a I see dead people movie again!" Yes it's true that the main premise is very similar to another very popular American movie, but I can tell you that The Eye has nothing to envy from other movies of the same genre. The story is very well built, maybe a bit slow paced in the middle but always keeps a good nervous rhythm that will keep you tense during the entire movie. I would say that the structure of the movie is very similar to the Japanese movie Ring, in a sense that there's not many frightening moments during the whole movie until the final ending which just explodes(literally)in your face.
Another element that makes the movie a stunning achievement is the sound and music. The Pang brothers have probably listened to Japanese director Hideo Nakata when he said that music and sound are a very important part of a scary movie. The music of The Eye fits very well with the atmosphere of the movie and the sound effects really gives you the creep during those really tense moments. A very well done job on that side indeed.
The film is subtitled, which may seem like a letdown, but it's actually fine, which i am sure alot of you know,who have seen asian films in the past.
I don't know if SR have this on DVD, but if they do GET IT! And I also strongly recommend you go see it in the cinema for added affect.
A truly magnificint film.
If you haven't, heres a brief review:
The Eye rides in on the eastern supernatural bandwagon that was started by Ring.
This chiller comes from the Pang brothers- Danny and Oxide(Oxide, you say?)
flashing out its haunting, atmospheric images by exploring the emotional and psychological dimensions of it's lead characters hallucinatory nightmare.
At the age of two, Wong Kar Mann lost her vision. Since that time she has lived with that handicap but now, reaching the age of 20, she has the possibility to regain her vision with a risky corneal transplant operation. After the successfully operation, Mann's vision is starting to get better and little by little she can almost see perfectly.
After getting used to her new situation, Mann has started to notice some really strange effects. It seems that she cans see people that no one else can notice. Are they really ghosts? And who are those strange shadows that sometime come around the living people. With the help of her new psychiatric guide, she will try to solve that problem, which will lead her to a small village in Thailand were the original corneal owner lived before she died. Will Mann be able to find out what happened to the previous dead owner and finally get rid of her curse and live a normal life again?
By reading the synopsis you are probably telling yourself "Not a I see dead people movie again!" Yes it's true that the main premise is very similar to another very popular American movie, but I can tell you that The Eye has nothing to envy from other movies of the same genre. The story is very well built, maybe a bit slow paced in the middle but always keeps a good nervous rhythm that will keep you tense during the entire movie. I would say that the structure of the movie is very similar to the Japanese movie Ring, in a sense that there's not many frightening moments during the whole movie until the final ending which just explodes(literally)in your face.
Another element that makes the movie a stunning achievement is the sound and music. The Pang brothers have probably listened to Japanese director Hideo Nakata when he said that music and sound are a very important part of a scary movie. The music of The Eye fits very well with the atmosphere of the movie and the sound effects really gives you the creep during those really tense moments. A very well done job on that side indeed.
The film is subtitled, which may seem like a letdown, but it's actually fine, which i am sure alot of you know,who have seen asian films in the past.
I don't know if SR have this on DVD, but if they do GET IT! And I also strongly recommend you go see it in the cinema for added affect.
A truly magnificint film.