Saturday, October 23, 2021

Scare-a-Thon 2021 Day 23: The Eye (2002)

  I tried to watch this ages ago on YouTube but the video quality was so bad I gave up.  I finally got it on disc from Netflix.

Mun (Angelica Lee) has been blind since she was two-years-old.  A cornea transplant gives her another chance to be sighted but the costs are a little higher than she anticipated.  First, she gets fired from the orchestra she plays in because it's for the blind and she no longer meets that category, and second, there's all the ghosts.  Mun convinces her therapist (Edmund Chen) to find out about the cornea donor and uncovers a series of tragedies.

This is a lot like The Ring in that it's really about uncovering the sins of the past.  The Eye is a bit more hopeful and with less eldritch terrors from the deep.  It's a solid ghost story, no real gore or violence, more atmospheric.  Unfortunately, it is not streaming anywhere so you have to be vigilant and/or track it down on physical media.

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