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Hollywood take note! This is how you make a creepy horror film. When you remake this, which I know you invariably will, don’t screw it up! I was really looking forward to the Festival Midnight Madness show of this film, due to the fact I’d been hearing Internet buzz about it since its release overseas earlier this year. It did not disappoint.
Right from its simple and original opening sequence, The Eye crafts wonderful scenes of prolonged creepiness, which is extremely tough to do in this day and age. Anybody can do the standard jump-out-the-shadows scare, but to build suspense and keep you on edge for extended periods of time is a real testament to a filmmaker’s ability. The elevator and calligraphy studio sequences and some of the best horror I’ve seen in recent memory. And I watch a LOT of horror movies, people. The guy next to me almost jumped out of his seat.
Even more gratifying for me is that the film is great all the way through. It doesn’t taper off like some good-but-could-have-been-great horror films do. The suspense of the climax is as good as any in the picture. The sound, one of the most, if not the most, important aspects of a horror film, is utilized to its utmost fullest.
This is an exceptionally well done horror film and the fact that this is the Pang Brothers first foray into the horror genre is even more amazing. I hope they intend to do more in the future. Coming home at two thirty a.m. that night to a dark and empty house was not fun. That, my friends, is the power of a horror film done right.
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