The Eye 2 Details

Bearing minimal relation to their Eye concept, the Pang brothers' follow-up delves into the very interesting creepy-crawl space between western urban legend and eastern Buddhist undercurrents. Qi Shu is the pregnant woman cursed with the ability to see ghosts. Featuring the now standard girl-with-long-dark-hair-over-eyes Asian cliché image, the Pangs take a far more novel approach in introducing the unexpected apparitions accompanied by surprise sound effects. Bodies abruptly thump to earth from the heavens and, in a remarkably elegant sequence, a slow-motion floating spirit terrorises charismatic Taiwanese star Qi in a lift. It's a tad too long, like most Asian horrors, but this crisply shot, jolting philosophy lesson is a slick shock package.

Grisly horror on the theme of reincarnation that includes an attempted rape, a still-born delivery in a stalled lift and bodies falling to hit the ground with a crunch; It achieves some effective shocks and surprises.