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The Eye (2002)
Directed by the Pang brothers
Stars: Angelica Lee, Lawrence Chou
I watched an Asian horror film called The Eye for the second time recently. It's not quite as effective on a second viewing, but I still liked it a lot. It's the story of a woman who is given a cornea transplant, and then starts seeing ghosts of the recently and not-so-recently departed, a la The Sixth Sense. She also starts having vivd nightmares of people and places she has never seen. Needless to say, these images are both troubling and frightening to her. She sets out with her psychotherapist to track down the family of the donor to find out the whole story.
Although not as effective as some other Asian horror I've seen, the director still does a good job of communicating the fear and confusion the protagonist is feeling while giving us some pretty good scares. Solid acting by the whole cast (except for Lawrence Chou as the therapist, who seems out of place), add to an emotional, creepy and sometimes frightening film. My only real problem was with the way it ended. What seemed to be the final scene, of the main characters standing around the donor's grave, is followed by another sequence which I don't want to describe in detail, but suffice it to say that it seemed to me that it was a "Hollywood" ending, that ruined the overall mood of the rest of the film. Even so, it's still a movie I would recommend, although it has been panned by some other Asian horror lovers.
The Eye (2002)
Directed by the Pang brothers
Stars: Angelica Lee, Lawrence Chou
I watched an Asian horror film called The Eye for the second time recently. It's not quite as effective on a second viewing, but I still liked it a lot. It's the story of a woman who is given a cornea transplant, and then starts seeing ghosts of the recently and not-so-recently departed, a la The Sixth Sense. She also starts having vivd nightmares of people and places she has never seen. Needless to say, these images are both troubling and frightening to her. She sets out with her psychotherapist to track down the family of the donor to find out the whole story.
Although not as effective as some other Asian horror I've seen, the director still does a good job of communicating the fear and confusion the protagonist is feeling while giving us some pretty good scares. Solid acting by the whole cast (except for Lawrence Chou as the therapist, who seems out of place), add to an emotional, creepy and sometimes frightening film. My only real problem was with the way it ended. What seemed to be the final scene, of the main characters standing around the donor's grave, is followed by another sequence which I don't want to describe in detail, but suffice it to say that it seemed to me that it was a "Hollywood" ending, that ruined the overall mood of the rest of the film. Even so, it's still a movie I would recommend, although it has been panned by some other Asian horror lovers.