thrasher2809 Let's put aside the fact that this film has some creepy moments but zero actual scares. Sorry, I jumped all throughout The Grudge and I knew while I was jumping that it was a terrible film. This didn't scare me. Noroi? Crapped my pants. This? I was laughing two thirds of the way through. Why?Because I just might nominate this film for most contrived ending of all time. Even disregarding the sheer amount of plot devices this film borrowed (Angel Heart and Jacob's Ladder are all over this film), the last third was absolutely dumbfounding. My jaw was on the floor from the sheer melodrama of it all. I saw this film on lists with Ju-on, Ringu, and a few other notable J-scarers, but boy, if this scared you, Ringu will literally kill you. For the record, Ringu didn't scare me either. Not like the American remake did. But that's a whole other can of worms.The Eye suffers from a serious dollop of schmaltz. Romantic subplot? Check. Ridiculously cheery classical piano music? Check. A "things are back to normal and I've gone through a lot but learned even more and everything's fine now" ending? Check.And hey presto, to top the whole thing off, a story with more plot holes than a cemetery after a tornado. And these aren't plot holes that film enthusiasts (not buffs, that denotes some sort of effort) will only catch and not the average viewer. You'd have to be awfully close to blind yourself to not be asking yourself some serious questions at the end of this film. Like, "What'd they use to make those fire effects, MS Paint?" or "Was the test audience for this movie a bunch of old women that said something along the lines of 'You really oughta include a series of flashback shots interleaved with shots of the present so that viewers won't get confused as to the already-obvious story arc similarities'?"Not a good horror movie, not a good thriller. If you want to look at it as a film about a woman struggling post eye surgery that was actually insane the whole time, maybe that's a better film.

Jackson Booth-Millard It is only after seeing the trailer for the Jessica Alba remake that I found out there was an original Japanese version, and this is it. Basically, blind since the age of two, eighteen year old Wong Kar Mun (Angelica Lee, or Lee Sin-Je) in Hong Kong submits to a surgery of cornea transplantation, i.e. being given new donated eyes, allowing her to have her sight back. Recovering from the surgery, she gets more than she bargained for when she starts seeing apparitions, i.e. dead people, and some of these ghosts are pretty unfriendly. So she begins a journey, with the help of Dr. Wah (Lawrence Chou) to find out who donated her new eyes and get rid of these horrible visions. In the end however, she goes to pretty drastic lengths to get rid of seeing the ghosts, I can't remember much, I just know there is an explosive crash, and her eyes end up draining blood. Also starring Chutcha Rujinanon as Ling, Candy Lo as Yee (Mun's Sister), Pierre Ping as Dr. Eak, Yin Ping Ko as Mun's grandmother and Edmund Chen as Dr. Lo. The effects and story, as far as I remember, were quite effective, and it was a stylish psychological and visceral horror thriller. Very good!

snarko Editor note: my computer is old, and I cannot hit the "contains spoiler" button; I'll have to leave out some of why I LOVE LOVE LOVE this film.Replaced The Shining as best horror I've ever seen. I bought it cuz I rented it too much.I've never seen a movie break viewer sense of space/time/expectation so often. Even owning it and watching it a million times, I cannot watch two scenes without screaming bloody murder.Premise genius: you don't even recognize your own reflection? Bonuses to horror fans: 1. Tribute to Hitchcock ending. But then, it doesn't end.2. Every common nightmare you actually have in real life, hit, HARD.3. No truly happy ending.I just can't explain my two favorite scenes well, as they're spoilers and I can't hit that button.1. Best break-of-space EVER.2. Best real-time horror EVER.If you have a better one, I WANT TO KNOW.

Backlash007 ~Spoiler~The Eye is one of the original properties that was responsible for getting everyone excited over Asian horror. I remember liking the film the first time I saw it, however, watching it now I find that it's a bit boring. Well, the first half of the film is still engaging, but the latter is tedious and uninteresting to me. In the beginning of the film, we find 20 year old Mun, who has been blind for most of her life, has just had a successful cornea transplant. The operation allows her to see once again. But this new sight is more than she bargained for. She now has the ability, or curse, to see apparitions. There are some genuinely creepy moments where Mun is discovering that she can see ghosts. One involving an elevator is downright unnerving. When Mun decides to find out who the donor of her cornea was, the film turns into a kind of supernatural mystery and doesn't offer up anymore chills. That's where they went wrong. The Pang Brothers have a knack for generating some good scares. Unfortunately thus far they've put those scares into sub-par films (i.e. The Eye 2 and The Messengers). If you like films such as the original Shutter, you will probably find something to like here.