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This film's predecessor The Eye, was a huge hit and critcally acclaimed, so doing a sequel could have resulted in disappointment. But The Eye II conquered that curse by approaching the subject from a completely different angle, which is why a lot of people didn't like it. Rather than using the standard scare tactics, The Eye 2 hits one's sense of fear on a more intellectual level. It does have some disturbingly creepy scenes, but there really aren't any 'BOO' moments that make you jump. After a failed suicide attempt the main character realizes she can now see dead people and finds wandering spirits everywhere she looks. But one ghostly female figure seems intent on haunting her for no reason, so there's a mystery story to unravel. The final scene in which explanations are given is very dramatic and a definite tearjerker; I was surprised to find that kind of emotional intensity in this film. The acting is great and Shu Qi in particular is amazing to watch. Not a bevy of special effects, but in the case of The Eye 2, a little goes a long way. A thoroughly enjoyable, well done film that gets you thinking about the afterlife and destiny in a whole new way.Read full review
Thai horror film kings Oxide & Danny Pang follow up their hit 2002 film with a sequel that, I think, is quite better than the first. Even though the film focally surrounds the daily life of an Asian woman and is closed captioned, the film keeps you guessing until the very end. Joey Cheng (Qi Shu who also appeared in "Millenium Mambo") seems to be a very troubled young woman who is having man problems. The film begins with her shopping in a mall and then going to the front desk of her hotel and asking to be promptly awakened at 8:00. Joey appears to be on some kind of vacation in Bangkok, although we are unclear as to why she is at the hotel. She insists to be checked on if she doesn't answer the wake-up call. Joey gets settled in her room and starts taking several hands of pills. Joey attempts to overdose on some kind of prescription pills but survives after her stomach gets pumped at the hospital. During her life fading suicide attempt, we see that the prescription bottles roll across the table like a spiritual presence is there. Joey also appears to be seeing ghosts surrounding her bed. At this point in the film, the only thing we can speculate as to why this is beginning to happen to her, is directly related to her suicide attempt, but later we discover there are other reasons why the ghosts are haunting her. Joey discovers, after returning to Hong Kong after her recovery, that she is expecting a child. We must assume that it is her boyfriend, who recently broke up with her, who is the father. She soon begins seeing people that are not there. The near death experience has somehow changed her sight and causes her to see dead people, as well as a lady, who seems appear more often to her. Parenthood does not sit well with Joey, and as she descends further and further into her own torment, she runs into her ex-boyfriend Sam (Jesdaporn Pholdee), who seems to be hiding behind some kind of dark secret. The Pang Brothers always seem to characteristically fuse the horror together with the cinematography. Qi Shu delivers a completely outstanding performance as the haunted expectant mother who becomes desperate to die after learning that the woman who is haunting her was her boyfriend's wife who committed suicide earlier after she found out about the affair between Sam and Joey. The dead estranged soul of the wife wants to totally forget about her past life be reborn back into Joey's child. This first becomes evident when she and another expectant mother gets trapped together in an elevator at the hospital. After falling down to the floor of the elevator, we soon see an apparition appear to her floating upside down and slowly approaching the birth canal of the other patient getting ready to deliver a child. The other child dies while trying to be born so the apparition starts heading towards her like she is getting ready to enter into Joey's canal if and when she bares the child, but backs away, since it was not time for the child to be born yet. We soon discover that Joey will attempt to kill herself by jumping off the roof of the hospital, but fails twice to do so. Joey accepts her child's fate after talking with the apparition who (for some reason) was actually keeping her from dying of her injuries by some kind of unseen force. The spirit enters into the womb before the child was born. Joey recovers from her injuries and finally gets to hold her child. At the end we see ghosts standing beside each Lamaze class couples.Read full review
love this particular Asian horror movie edge of ur seat scenes
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Product great. The dvd. Don’t waste your money
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Waste of money
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