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The Eye 2
2004
Thai horror maestros Oxide and Danny Pang follow up their hit 2002 film with a sequel that equals the chills and creepy mise-en-scene of the first. Qi Shu (MILLENIUM MAMBO) stars as Joey Cheng, a troubled young woman who is pregnant with the child of the boyfriend who just dumped her. On holiday in Bangkok, she makes a suicide .. Read more
| Starring | Eugenia Yuan, Qi Shu, Jesdaporn Pholdee |
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| Director | Oxide Pang, Danny Pang |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller, World Cinema |
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The Eye 2
Thai horror maestros Oxide and Danny Pang follow up their hit 2002 film with a sequel that equals the chills and creepy mise-en-scene of the first. Qi Shu (MILLENIUM MAMBO) stars as Joey Cheng, a troubled young woman who is pregnant with the child of the boyfriend who just dumped her. On holiday in Bangkok, she makes a suicide attempt in her hotel room, but is foiled by her wake-up call. Something was altered in her close contact with death, however, and returning home to Hong Kong, the realisation slowly dawns on Joey that the wraith-like people she now sees everywhere are actually deceased. This knowledge does not sit well with Joey, and as she descends further and further into her own torment, she attempts to reconnect with her ex-boyfriend Sam (Jesdaporn Pholdee), who seems to be hiding some kind of secret. The Pang Brothers' characteristically excellent cinematography infuses THE EYE 2 with atmospheric foreboding, and Qi Shu hands in an outstanding performance as the haunted expectant mother.
| Starring | Eugenia Yuan, Qi Shu, Jesdaporn Pholdee |
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| Director | Oxide Pang, Danny Pang |
| Studio | PALISADES TARTAN |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 35 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller, World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: Cantonese, Mandarin |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 03 Oct 2005 Production year: 2004 |
| Format | DVD |
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Critics' reviews (4)
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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.
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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.
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66 out of 78 people found this review helpful
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Not as good as the first
The first film was pretty good and had its creepy moments, I did not enjoy this film as much i felt it did not have the same creepy **** yourself moments of the first. Not a bad film and original idea's but not as good as the 1st
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Most recent members' review
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Puts you off babies for life..
'The Eye’ was of course a superior Eastern horror movie and a Worldwide success for its makers ‘The Pang brothers’. It goes without saying then that a bloated sequel was inevitable.
The film sticks to the same formula just as you might expect, though the set up this time is slightly different. Shu Qi takes over as our leading lady and after a failed suicide attempt she not only discovers that she is pregnant but, whisper it, the girl can see dead people too.
‘The Eye 2’ certainly suffers from over familiarity, most of the shocks are telegraphed and very few scares get under your skin in the way that they did first time round.
Having said that though, ‘The Eye 2’ remains a very enjoyable movie. Shu Qi plays her part incredibly well and the script throws up some very entertaining ideas about life and death.
Just a shame though that ‘The Pang Brothers’ appear to have lost their knack for surprise. Without the tension and scare factor of the original ‘The Eye 2’ remains an incredibly watchable experience, just not a particularly shocking one. -
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