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Saturday, 6 December 2003
THE EYE
Mood:
 a-ok
I almost gave up on the "supernatural/horror"film a few yearz ago until M.Night Shyamalan shook our senses with "The Sixth Sense."It's atmospheric intelligence and quick spooky glimpses of the other side made it stand out from all the big budgeted splatter/explosion/big bug monster crap that waz coming out at the time.Sure,it spawned a legion of Hollywood copycats,but at least they tried with others like "Stir Of Echoes","The Others" & "Stigmata".Better than sittin' thru another crap ass "Scream"sequel.
Then,as soon as the whole "I see dead people"angle was becoming as familiar as seein'your neighbors taking out the garbage we were suprised and spooked by "The Ring."Looks like there's hope for us horror fans after all.It had it's faults but there's moments in the film that stand right up with the grandaddy of all horror flix-"The Exorcist".But sure enough you know there's gonna be a handful of filmakers trying to jump on that bandwagon and regurgitate the best of that film.
This time tho,Honk Kong has beat Hollywood to the punch with it's burnt offering called "The Eye".I had to check it out cuz I've heard alot of buzz about it.
The story is a well worn concept.A young woman who has been blind since the age of two goes in for a corneal transplant.All goes well til she starts seeing a shadowey figure that leads people off to the big dirt nap.We get glimpses of blurry faces and wierd sounds and strange happenings thru her dead sad eyes.It's a big mix of "The Ring",some old Twilight Zone & Tales From The Crypt episodes,"The Blair Witch"&"The Sixth Sense".
There's very few actually really scarey moments to one such as myself who's seen so many horror flix,but I like how we get to feel the anguish and torment of the young woman,which is well played out,so much that I'm suprised she just doesn't pluck her eyes out after awhile in good ol'Ray Milland style.But then that wouldn't lead up to the big finale.Which isn't scarey or creepy at all,just kinda suprising for a low key supernatural film.In fact,it's so perfect that it's no suprise that Hollywood's very own Tom Cruise has been rumoured to be producing an American version of this film.I just hope he can "spook"it up a little more.Course if he jumps around in his skivveyz to a Bob Seger tune in it,it may just be too spooky for me to bear.Eyes wide shut indeed.
Ragz Rates It A:6.75
Posted by ragzdandelion
at 1:58 PM PST
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