The Eye

Times Watched: 1
Watched With: Mr Jab & Mr Batcha @ The Cathay (11/03)
Snacks: None

arrrgh! me eye!!!!

so how many of you watched the HK original?
okay wait.
how many of you have watched US remakes of Asian horror movies?
i'll leave that til the end...

so Sydney Wells (Jessica Alba) was blinded at age 5 and now many many many years later she is a concert pianist and is finally egged on by her persistent sister Helen Wells (Parker Posey) to get a cornea transplant which will restore her sight.

after the 'successful' transplant however, things don't seem to be working out for dear old Sydney.
she has visions of people dying, dead people and also these shadowy Lord Voldemort-like phantoms who seem to appear when people are going to die.

her eye specialist Dr. Paul Faulkner (Alessandro Nivola aka Gavino Harris from GOAL!) insists that her mind is just adjusting to the new role being filled by her eyes and she's simply imagining all these weird stuff.
(yeah right doc gimme a break.)
but the visions keep hounding Sydney and she has no choice but to face the demons. literally.

so the original was a collaboration between HK and Thailand.
and the US remake tries to take a it in a different direction so it's not totally identical in case you were wondering.

but so far with almost all US remakes of Asian horror (The Ring, The Grudge, Dark Water and the soon to be released Shutter) have so far failed to live-up to and/or match their asian predecessors in terms or creativity and scares.
even though the original Asian director takes the helm for the remake.
(PS it took 2 directors this remake of the Eye and the direction STILL sucked balls to the gedegak. what the hell...)

i'm wondering if there'll ever be a US remake that will be scarier that the Asian original.
well we'll see.
(geddit? geddit? the EYE? we'll SEE?)

PS this movie could have gotten 5 hot dogs out of 5.
if they had included Pierre Png in it like the original.

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