EYE See What You Mean...

2007 WORST ACTRESS NOMINEE JESSICA ALBA STARTED OFF 2008 with ANOTHER MOVIE JUST DRIPPING with RAZZIE® POTENTIAL --THE SECOND AMERICAN REMAKE of an ASIAN HORROR FLICK THIS YEAR (THE FIRST ONE WAS ONE MISSED CALL).

THIS ONE's ABOUT a BLIND WOMAN WHOSE CORNEAL TRANSPLANT GOES WRONG, and SUDDENLY STARTS SUBJECTING HER to VISIONS from the DEAD DONOR. IN ADDITION to BEING a REMAKE of a 2002 FILM from HONG KONG, THE EYE IS ALSO ARGUABLY a KNOCK-OFF of ABOUT 27 PREVIOUS LOW BUDGET HORROR FLICKS ABOUT VARIOUS TRANSPLANTS GONE WRONG, INCLUDING 1981's THE HAND and 1994's BLINK...

FEEL FREE to TRANSPLANT YER THOUGHTS BELOW...and PRAY THEY DON'T COME BACk to HAUNT YOU LATER in the YEAR!

Alba: "Oh, my God -- I"ve never seen such a gigantic TURKEY!!"

The original film was...okay.

But it's like remaking THE OMEN. It was a decent story to go through once, but it isn't really deserving of repeat treatment. They should have just found stronger source material, especially with the Asian horror film fad on its way out (if not already gone)... 

 

Try not not remember "Where the Boys Are '84," "The King and I" (cartoon version), "Attack of the 50 ft. Woman," "The Time Machine," "Stagecoach," "Stagecoach" (no, I didn't list the same film twice), "Piranha," "The Shaggy Dog," "And God Created Women," "Yours, Mine and Ours," "Taxi," "Pulse," "Black Christmas," "Halloween," "The Hitcher," "When a Stranger Calls," "Dark Water," "Jungle 2 Jungle," "The Haunting," "The Grudge," "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," "Get Carter," "Godzilla," "Gloria," "The Invasion," "The Truth About Charlie," "The Phantom of the Opera," "The Out-of-Towners," "The Hills Have Eyes," "Diabolique," "Thirteen Ghosts," "House on Haunted Hill," "Village of the Damned," "The Jackal," or "A Star is Born."

Try not to be reminded of any of those.

I just found out the screenplay for this was written by Sebastian Gutierrez, who also wrote SNAKES ON A PLANE. It's a shame they couldn't come up with a similar title for this thing, at least it would've been funny.

Gutierrez's other writing credits include: THE BIG BOUNCE (another remake) and GOTHIKA (another horror film). I guess we can expect THE EYE to be some kind of a hybrid of these two films.

Originally posted by moviewizguy This looks goood.

Looks good.

Haha, get it? LOOKS

And it's called THE EYE.

I love puns, the lamer they are, the better.

The only thing that looks good in this movie is Alba's body. But she has a long losing streak of bad movies, dating back a few years.  At this rate, Sin City 2 may disappoint because of her! 

 

STRANGE WILDERNESS will probably go the way of A SOUND OF THUNDER and achieve a dismalness that will go largely ignored due to its low-profile. Saying it's slipping quietly into theaters is no understatement, suggesting that not even dreck vomitorium (you know what I really mean when I misuse that word) Happy Madison productions (THE BENCHWARMERS, GRANDMA'S BOY) is willing to put any stock in it. That's really saying something. Unless it's a fear of the lack of such comedic "talents" as Rob Schneider and Jon Heder that's keeping this film from being properly marketed, we may have a motion picture that fails to even reach the less-than-lofty standards set by BENCHWARMERS and GRANDMA'S BOY. But again, it may not have the profile to garner any real attention from RAZZIE members.

Back to THE EYE. In case you guys weren't aware, the original Hong Kong production was directed by the Pang brothers, who made their American debut last year with RAZZIE contender THE MESSENGERS, another paranormal horror flick. It proved to be highly susceptible to far too many of the conventions plaguing modern American horror. In THE EYE's case, we can already tell it's borrowing from aforementioned sources; it is, after all, a remake of a film that had no qualms about building its story around a device that had been employed in a noticeable amount of other films. This American version is doomed to suffer from the familiarity of its genre and is likely to be just as forgettable as THE MESSENGERS. Only now it has Jessica Alba, so there's no way it can fail. In fact, this is probably the exact same film as THE MESSENGERS just with Alba dubbed in over the other lead actress. It's marketing genius.

damn i'm to afraid to see this kind of movies(after the ring, i got some sleep problems) but i'm sure that i'm not going to miss something big so i'll pass