Rating: Summary: The eye Review: This movie is great,the best movie than ever I see rent it and I sure that will bay it garantee...
Rating: Summary: Eye See Dead People Review: Mun is a young girl who lost her vision when she was 2 years old. Eighteen years later, through the miracle of modern medicine, she receives a cornea transplant. It is successful and she can now see the world around her. But the transplant has an unexpected side effect, she can see dead people. The Eye is an eerie and extremely effective ghost story. The theme is similar the Sixth Sense, but I would not consider it to be a copy, but more of a compliment to the ideas presented in that film. The muted colors of the film give it a cold and creepy atmosphere. Scares are accomplished with unsettling and disturbing visuals instead of shock and gore. Characters are well established and you find yourself caring for the poor girl who gets the spooky vision. The events build up to a good conclusion and an ending with a twist. The picture and sound quality of the DVD are good. Effective use of surround sounds on the Dolby 5.1 track adds to the scary tone of the movie. The language track is Mandarin Chinese with English sub-titles. There is no English language track as this movie was made for the Asian market. The picture is sharp and presented in widescreen format. Some of the plot elements are cliché and predictable, but the movie is genuinely creepy. I've seen so many horror films that I am pleasantly surprised when a movie can make the hair on my arms stand up. The film rights have already been picked up by a US production company (ala the Ring). The movie is not perfect, but if you are a horror movie buff this is a good way to expand your horizons a little. Recommended.
Rating: Summary: Enough with the "Sixth Sense" comparisons!! Review: The Sixth sense was a good movie, but i, personnally didn't think it was all that, i saw it once and there is no reason to ever see it again. The Eye on the other hand is a movie i would i would really recommend to my friends and family. Heavy on atmosphere, great acting and a good story with enough chills and creepy occurences, if you like supernatural movies or just movies with good storytelling this ones for you. A young woman who lost her eyesight at age 2 recieves an ocular transplant of some sort which enables her to regain her eyesight unfortunately she is now able to see spirits, not evil spirits!!, just spirits and believe me they are scary enough without being evil. So now with the help of her cute therapist she must unravel the mystery of what is happenning to her. Complaints: 1.The therapist is there as a "love interest" at the end i was expecting a kiss. No kiss, oh well.2.The resolution to Mun's problem was a little to neat, not bad, i felt it was a bit of a cop-out.Anyway a lot of people will have a problem with the fact that it is in cantonese with english subtitles, too bad Because it's a very good movie. EP
Rating: Summary: She sees Dead People Review: Imagine for a moment that you've been blind since the age of two, submerged in a world of darkness. You crave, hunger for, the simplest, most elementary of optical stimulation. Then, one day, you are the lucky beneficiary of a highly experimental corneal operation. You see the glorious colors of a world that for far too long was lost in the inky black. Buildings, interiors of rooms, the golden infinity of a sunrise, human faces---all of these things that have been denied you for more than a decade. There's one catch. Now, you see the Dead. Worse still, you see the Unquiet Dead---and those dark-shrouded, pale-faced creatures of Darkness sent to collect them and shepherd them to their final resting place. In a sentence, "The Eye" is about those dark, skulking, cold-skinned dead things that most of us (mercifully) can't see. Our heroine Mun(played sympathetically by Malay rocker Angelica Lee) regains her sight, but with vision comes horrific visions of the Dead: a whining boy wondering if Mun has seen his report card, an elderly man standing stiff in the middle of a Hong Kong highway, a disfigured phantom in the elevator car. There is a mystery at the center of "The Eye", but in truth it weakens the effect of this movie, which at its dark heart is a long twisted song to the horror that hides in the closet and sleeps underneath the bed of terrified children. Mun and her psychotherapist Dr. Wah (played with aplomb by the youthful Lawrence Chou) are quick to depart on a mystery-hunt that takes them to the wilds of Thailand, but the mystery itself isn't the attraction here: quite the contrary, the ghoulish spooky delights found in "The Eye" beg not to be explained. For most of the film's running time, the Pang Brothers defy explanation, preferring to steep the viewer in the movie's delicious, ghoulishly creepy atmosphere. But as with most Asian horror, an explanation must always be tendered, and this one doesn't serve the film's shivery nature: the resolution is disappointing, given the terrors that preceded it. That said, "The Eye" is the first film in years to have genuinely creeped me out, and for the scene in an apartment elevator car alone the film cries out to be seen. Watched in total darkness in an empty house on a rainy night, the effect of "The Eye" is equivalent to having walked into your closet, confident nothing but your clothes resides there, only to feel a graveyard-cold hand brush against your face. Be warned: there are ghosts here. Drink deep, and enjoy.
Rating: Summary: Better than The Sixth Sense! Review: Do not dismiss this movie as a Sixth Sense rip-off, it has much more to offer than that (very good in its own right) movie. Apart from being incredibly imaginative, this film had such creepy and intense moments that it now has me calling it the best "ghost" flick I've ever seen. The performances are very good all around, and the special effects and sound design are extremely well done. The scene in the elevator is unforgettable, just watch it and you'll see what I'm talking about. The American remake that's in development will probably suck, so run right out and pick this gem up. And if you've never seen Guillermo Del Toro's The Devil's Backbone, check that out as well. That's another fantastic ghost flick. Watch this movie and realize how bad Hollywood horror movies suck! Keep it up Pang Brothers!
Rating: Summary: Worth Watching! Review: This is a unique film, even though it does have a bit of "The Sixth Sense" flavor to it. Even so, there is still enough in the story line to keep you interested throughout the whole movie. The only thing that would have made it more enjoyable would be English audio. It gets tedious after a while to keep up with reading the subtitles. I agree with the other reviewer who said "No English audio is unacceptable", because I have NEVER seen a movie with only options for Cantonese 5.1 or Cantonese 2.0. I mean, come on, a major portion of the world speaks English!
Rating: Summary: The Eye--chinese audio with English subtitles Review: What a amazing premise for a film. A blind woman gets an eye transplant and then see's ghost. Unfortunatly there isn't much to this film, but its strange enough to keep you watching. Personally I would have enjoyed it more if the DVD had English audio. While some people hate the dubbed English in Foriegn films, I on the other hand get distracted because Im trying to read instead of enjoying the film. No English audio is really unacceptable. Still its a creative film with a good cast and nice slick soundtrack... Worth a look indeed... acting=4 stars FX=3.5 ending=3.5 stars atmosphere=4.5 stars Directing and Editing=4 stars storyline=3.5 stars meaningfullness=4.5 stars replay value=4 stars soundtrack=4.5 stars OVERALL=solid 4 stars
Rating: Summary: Best and Scariest Foreign Horor Film Ever!!!! Review: It was just another boring day in Mid June. Me and my friend stumbled upon a movie poster that looked very interesting..We decided to give it a shot...not even 5 minites into the film, I got my first suprise. the sighting of what seemed like the film melted and the film was over before it even started. Not even 5 seconds later, you hear this horrible murderous scream that almost literally scared the Sh** out of me. The film is filled with shocking and terrifying moments. This film was so creepy, even 3 guys ran out of the theater scared out of their minds. This film doesn't rely on special effects to grab the viewers attention, just pure freaky moments. It's mostly the anticipation that scared most people in this film. I have the overseas Hong Kong version DVD i bought not even a week after i saw it. I'd recommend the American version because some overseas DVD's wont play in american dvd players... This is the creepiest film I've EVER seen...Definitely worth buying!!!!
Rating: Summary: GHOSTS..... Review: A young Chinese violinist, blind since childhood, recieves corneal transplants and begins seeing ghosts and other troubling visions. She starts freaking out until she winds up back in the hospital with a collapse. Only then does anyone begin to believe her. Her psychotherapist (who has fallen for her) agrees to help her and traces the donor to a Thailand village where they discover the donor was an extremely troubled girl who committed suicide. She was psychic and persecuted by ignorant villagers. Resolving the matter will be another issue. "The Eye" is a richly textured supernatural thriller with horror elements. The ghosts are believable and the heroine's plight is scarily presented. There's enough tension in this film to fill Shea stadium. Yet it is also a film of emotional depth and treats the subject matter with respect. It says that there are ghosts all around us and those that can see them for whatever reason should understand the reasons they're still here. In "The Eye", it's tragedy and unresolved emotional conflict that binds a troubled spirit (and some others as well) to this plane. Whether you're a believer or not, "The Eye" is a good thought provoker and a well made thriller with enough scares and disturbing images to give you nightmares. At it's core, it's a sensitive treatment of what could happen with our advanced approaches in organ transplants and the misguided beliefs that everything is either black or white. But there are shades of grey that most people choose to ignore. "The Eye" explores these "grey areas" very well. As it says in the film, "The world is a beautiful place"...as long as you don't look too close. You may see a ghost.
Rating: Summary: A good, scary, low-budget horror film Review: A Hong Kong flick with an actual plot...! What will they think of next?? There are some creepy thrills in this fine, low-budget horror flick about a young Chinese woman who gets a cornea transplant to cure her lifelong blindness... and then goes all Haley Joel Osment and discovers she can see dead people!! Fortunately her cute psychologist boyfriend believes her crazy tale, and eventually they get to the bottom of the whole haunted eyeball thing. The film is genuinely unnerving, with several good ghosty sequences, and a reasonably coherent plot... Notably, it's the *sound design* that gives this film most of its dramatic punch... Definitely worth checking out!
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