The Eye
2008 · Movie · PG-13 · 98 min · ★ 5.9 · 29% critics
After losing her sight as a child, a young musician undergoes a cornea transplant and begins adjusting to seeing again. But as her recovery continues, unsettling visions appear—suggesting she may be witnessing spirits and fragments of someone else’s past—pushing her to search for answers behind her new “gift.”
Based on The Eye
Also known as L'oeil
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Details
- Years
- 2008
- Release date
- 2008-02-01
- Language
- English
- Rated
- PG-13
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Critic score
- 29/100
- TMDB rating
- 5.9/10 (1,153 votes)
- Box office
- $57
- Budget
- $12,000,000
About
You may enjoy this if you like supernatural thrillers that lean more on mystery and uneasy visions than nonstop scares, in the vein of White Noise or The Ring Two; Not for you if you want intense, consistently frightening horror.
Pros: intriguing premise; eerie moments; watchable mystery | Cons: predictable story beats; uneven scares; limited emotional depth
Themes
- dying and death
- blindness and impaired vision
- eye operation
- eyesight
- sibling relationship
- afterlife
- classical music
- eye
- sister
- eye specialist
- remake
- corneal transplant
Cast & crew
Jessica Alba
as Sydney Wells
Alessandro Nivola
as Dr. Paul Faulkner
Parker Posey
as Helen Wells
Chloë Grace Moretz
as Alicia Millstone
Rade Šerbedžija
as Simon McCullough
Mia Stallard
as Little Girl
Obba Babatundé
as Dr. Haskins
Danny Mora
as Miguel
Rachel Ticotin
as Rosa Martinez
Tamlyn Tomita
as Mrs. Cheung
Directed by Xavier Palud, David Moreau