Plot
A blind girl gets a cornea transplant so that she would be able to see again. However, she got more than what she bargained for when she realised she could even see ghosts...
Release Year: 2002
Rating: 6.8/10 (15,414 voted)
Critic's Score: 66/100
Director:
Oxide Pang Chun
Stars: Angelica Lee, Chutcha Rujinanon, Lawrence Chou
Storyline A blind girl gets a cornea transplant so that she would be able to see again. However, she got more than what she bargained for when she realised she could even see ghosts. And some of these ghosts are down right unfriendly. So she embarks on a journey to find the origins of her cornea and to reveal the history of the previous dead owner ...
Writers: Jo Jo Yuet-chun Hui, Danny Pang
Cast: Angelica Lee
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Wong Kar Mun
(as Lee Sin-Je)
Lawrence Chou
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Dr. Wah
Jinda Duangtoy
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Old Lady in the Hospital
Yut Lai So
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Yingying
Candy Lo
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Yee (Mun's Sister)
Edmund Chen
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Dr. Lo
Yin Ping Ko
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Mun's grandmother
Florence Wu
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Nurse
Wisarup Annuar
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Dark Figure
Yuet Siu Wong
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Ghost in the Hospital
Wing-Wai Chin
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Hospital Caretaker
Tao Leung
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Ghost on the Highway
Mylio Lau
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Wah's Secretary
(as Miyuki Lau)
Ousinthorn Chotphan
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Mun as a Little Girl
Dampongongtrakul Sawadee
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Yee as a Little Girl
Taglines:
What if the reflection you see is not yours
Opening Weekend: €301,664
(Spain)
(23 March 2003)
(71 Screens)
Gross: $2,952,059
(South Korea)
(19 September 2002)
Technical Specs
Runtime:|
Argentina:
(Mar del Plata Film Festival)
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Canada:
(DVD)
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Sweden:
(DVD)
Did You Know?
Trivia:
When Dr Wah and Mun are on the train together, a ghostly woman's face appears in the train window behind them as they travel through a tunnel.
Goofs:
Continuity:
When Mun and Dr. Lo get to Bangkok, they each have a black bag. At the hospital, only Dr. Lo has one. Later, at Ling's house, Mun has her bag back.
User Review
One of the year's best horror movies, though the subtitles will sadly put many people off
Rating: 8/10
Even the website of this movie gave me the creeps. And it turned out to be
one of the scariest movies I've seen in a while.
We follow the touching story of a young Hong Kong girl, blind from her
earliest years, who undergoes a cornea transplant. After softening us up
with lots of nice sentiment, the horror kicks her new found sight brings its
own macabre rewards. Snappy editing and a well-timed score heighten the
horrors that pack nanchuka punches to the guts. About a third of the
audience was cowering behind their hands for the last half. In an age when
American horror flicks are starting to look weary from over-use of CGI
special effects or are toned down by self-censorship to reach a wider
audience, The Eye comes in as a deftly woven real cardiac-stimulation
shocker.
Sadly, the fact that it is subtitled limits the potential audience as many
people simply refuse to go and see foreign language films until they have
been genuinely moved or terrified by one. If you like horror movies and want
to experiment, this is a good chance, and one of the best in the genre since
the little shown Audition earlier this year.
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