The Eye

Part supernatural thriller, part Oliver Sacks-style meditation on the neurological mysteries of perception, and part Buddhist treatise on reincarnation, the story luxuriates in shadows.Read Full Review »

Despite an overwrought finale, this stylish horror film is genuinely creepy. See it before the inevitable Hollywood remake.Read Full Review »

Rarely has the basic nature of visual perception seemed so frightening.Read Full Review »

The Pang brothers bring you into a surrealistically memorable ghost world of the beyond. It's also refreshing to have two forceful young women (Mun and Ling) at the center of the story.Read Full Review »

Although almost nothing about The Eye is surprising, the movie is nevertheless engrossing, as it mutates from horror movie to ghost story to psychological drama to disaster flick (a late, stunning twist). It casts a spell strong enough that viewers won't want to look away.Read Full Review »

Their (filmmakers Oxide and Danny Pang) sense of pacing is nicely arrhythmic, which makes the "boo" moments all the more heart-thudding, but what's even more pleasurable are the pockets of quiet, those lacuna of low-frequency dread when nothing much happens.Read Full Review »

The Pangs deliver enough shivery scares to keep you up nights. Eyes wide shut.Read Full Review »

Although I have mixed feelings about The Eye, there's no question the Pangs have a natural talent for cinema. They create bright, unfussy images and work terrifically with actors.Read Full Review »

This is the kind of movie you happen across on TV, and linger to watch out of curiosity, but its inspired moments serve only to point out how routine, and occasionally how slow and wordy, the rest of it is.Read Full Review »

It's as if, on the umpteenth Asian-horror Xerox, the ink has run dry.Read Full Review »