The Eye (2008)

The eye is a 2008 supernatural horror movie made in Hollywood. This movie is a remake from the Pang Brothers' 2002 film, also with the same name, The eye. This remake movie is 100% inspired by the original movie that is originally made in Hong Kong. This remake movie is directed by David Moreau and Xavier Palud and screenplay by Sebastian Gutierrez. This movie was distributed by Lionsgate and Paramount Vantage. Jessica alba, yes the famous jessica alba from fantastic four is starring this movie along with Parker Posey and Alessandro Nivola. The running time is quite long for horror movie, 98 minutes. The budget of this movie is quite high for 12 millions and reaching the gross budget for $56,964,642.

The plot of this movie is revolving aroun Sydney Wells (Jessica Alba) who is a successful classical violinist who has been blind since the age of five. Fifteen years later, Sydney undergoes a cornea transplant, which causes her eyesight to return. As time goes on with her new vision, she also begins experiencing terrifying visions, mostly of fire and people dying. The bulk of the rest of the film concerns Sydney unraveling the mystery of the visions, and trying to convince others, primaly her visual therapist, Paul Faulkner (Alessandro Nivola), who becomes a helpmate in her quest. She knows that she is not going insane.

She finds herself in Mexico, where the cornea donor was originally from. The images of fire and death are the result of an industrial accident that the donor foretold. The donor hung herself because she could not stopthe accident from occuring.Sydney puts the spirit to rest, and begins her trek home. As Sydney and Paul wait in a queue of vehicles to cross border, a high speed police chase ends with the fugitive crashing through the border barriers and into a tanker full of gasoline.

Sydney, able to still see the death silhouettes, begins to try to get everyone she can off the highway. The tanker explodes from a spark in the getaway car's engine, and Sydney is blinded by flying glass. After recovering at a hospital, she returns to her life as a blind violinist, though with a more optimistic "view" of her condition.

For me there is no remake movie that will ever beat the original one. It is so hard to capture the same horror and build up the same thrilling atmosphere. Eventhough, I, personally doubt Jessica Alba as the main actres for this horror movie but at the end she didn't really dissapoint me. I doubt Jessica Alba because she is not the kind of actress who i see playing in a horror movie and even worse, a remake movie. But after all for 98 minutes of horror movie it is quite entertaining and not as disappointing as i first thought. The movie itself also have a deep message other than the thrill itself, it gives a message about vision, how people can have different vision and capture it differently.

Since this is October, which means HALLOWEEN and if you guys run out of horror movie, then i recommend you to watch this movie.

Tips: watch the remake first then watch the original one. DO NOT DO IT THE OTHER WAY AROUND

Here is the official trailer for you guys:

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