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The Eye
2008
Sydney Wells (Jessica Alba) is an accomplished, independent, Los-Angeles based concert violinist. She is also blind, and has been so since childhood. As our story opens Sydney undergoes a double corneal transplant and her sight is restored. But Sydney's happiness is short lived as unexplained shadowy and frightening images .. Read more
| Starring | Jessica Alba, Alessandro Nivola, Parker Posey, Rade Serbedzija |
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| Director | David Moreau, Xavier Palud |
| Genres | Audio Descriptive, Horror |
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The Eye
Sydney Wells (Jessica Alba) is an accomplished, independent, Los-Angeles based concert violinist. She is also blind, and has been so since childhood. As our story opens Sydney undergoes a double corneal transplant and her sight is restored.
But Sydney's happiness is short lived as unexplained shadowy and frightening images start to haunt her. Are they a passing aftermath of her surgery, Sydney's mind adjusting to sight, a product of her imagination - or something horrifyingly real? As Sydney's family and friends begin to doubt her sanity, Sydney is soon convinced that her annonymous eye donor has somehow opened the door to a terryfying world that only she can now see.
| Starring | Jessica Alba, Alessandro Nivola, Parker Posey, Rade Serbedzija, Fernanda Romero, Rachel Ticotin, Obba Babatunde |
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| Director | David Moreau, Xavier Palud |
| Studio | LIONSGATE UK |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 37 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 36 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Audio Descriptive, Horror |
| Language | DVD: English, English Audio Description Blu-ray: English, English Audio Description |
| Released | DVD: 08 Sep 2008 Blu-ray: 08 Sep 2008 Production year: 2008 |
| Format | DVD |
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better than orginal
i would say that if you want to watch the eye than please watch this one as the orignal sucked big time and had subtitles
this one is 100 times better than the Japanese 1 -
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Better than expected
Nowhere near as bad as some reviews seem to make it out to be, The Eye is an unnecessary remake (which is at times pretty much scene-for-scene) much like The Grudge, where if you have seen the original movie then there is very little new in the remake, but it is certainly not the disaster it could easily have been. It adds a few more jump-scares while taking out some of the mystery and atmosphere of the original and also takes a more direct approach compared to the quite subtle original.
On the acting side of things, Jessica Alba is surprisingly quite good in the lead role (not a patch on Angelica Lee from the original movie but much better than I expected her to be) and The Eye is probably the best performance from Alba in a film to date, while the supporting cast is also quite good if underused in some cases (Parker Posey). -
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