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Angelica Lee, Lawrence Chou, Wilson Yip, Chutcha Rujinanon, Edmund Chen, Candy Lo, Cub Chin Kong-hon, Pornchai Hongrattanaporn, Wing-wai Chin, Ben YuenInhalte(1)
All is not as it appears in this chilling psychological thriller. After 18 years of blindness, 20 year-old Min's eyesight is restored following a corneal transplant. Immediately, mysterious black-clad figures in Mun's field of vision seem to foreshadow sudden deaths, and disfigured denizens haunt her. Mun slowly learns that she has inherited her donor's particular fate - the ability to see into the future and the terror that comes with it. (Verleiher-Text)
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Ein tolles Thema, das von zwei Regisseuren verfilmt wurde… Das Ergebnis ist einerseits ein wirkungsvolles Drama mit einem starken, aber nicht genutzten gedanklichen Potenzial, andererseits ein scharfer Gänsehaut-Thriller, den man in den angespanntesten Szenen mit The Sixth Sense vergleichen kann. Wenn man sich mehr auf die Lebensgeschichte der Hauptfigur konzentriert hätte, hätte es ein Schlag in die Seele werden können. Als eine Häppchen-Schocktherapie funktioniert der Film aber auch sehr gut.
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I have a problem with Japanese horror movies and their remakes. To put it simply, they don’t scare me, whether it is The Ring or, in this case, The Eye. And yet, can’t say they are badly made, quite the contrary, but emotionally, they just can't stir me up properly. The Eye has a novel, interesting story, but it has one pretty big flaw: two set-up endings, the second of which, while effective, is very awkward in its own way, and it would have been better if it hadn’t been there at all. Overall, based on the responses, I expected it to be much better. Which brings me back to the beginning of my review...
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A ghost in a hospital, a ghost in a room, a ghost in the streets, a ghost in a corridor, a ghost on a lift, and so on, and so on – that’s the entire first half of the film. And then the heroine sets out on a journey in search of the truth.
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The whole film was heading for a three thanks to some of the acting and definitely the need to rise above the different mentality of the film and some of the screenwriting lapses. However, the camera work in this film is so evocative that one is on tenterhooks for some scenes, waiting to see where it’s going to come from. The scene in the elevator, for example, is fantastically horrific, and it gets by without jump scares. The ending is like something out of another movie and *SPOILER ALERT* quite reminded me of The Mothman Prophecies from the same year. However, I think that the burning bodies of people, children, and animals accompanied by a romantic piano melody make the fourth star. And the last shot is really nice.
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The Hong Kong-Singaporean rendition of The Eye is a more terrifying film than its remake. There are moments here that are genuinely frightening, not just because there might be a jump scare, but mainly due to how well some scenes are constructed. This ultimately leads to the overall impression of this film being more unsettling, which I definitely consider a sign of quality within the context. This is a horror film that works years later, and that’s despite me having seen the remake.
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