Reviews

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"The Eye" was the first film this year to really give me the goose bumps.

The scares are played to maximum effect in this Pang brothers film, although it does take a borrow a few of it's ideas from other more famous Hollywood fare. I am thinking here of the basic plot of "Sixth Sense" as a main influence. The way that the Mun (?) eventually tries to come to terms with her gift. And then her sitting in the traffic after an accident has occured was like the scene near the end of M Night Shyamalans movie where Haley Joel Osment tells his mom about seeing her mother.

Also the in the way that the ghostly black shapes move in before and after a death is quite similar to "Ghost" (actually that was probably the scariest thing in Ghost!).

Also a film not many folk may be familiar with which had similarities was the Michael Apted thriller "Blink" from 1994, where Madeline Stowe plays a woman who sees things after getting her sight back after years of being blind.

I liked this film alot although the plot did meander a little towards the end. The flash backs to the dead girls life (and subsequent death) reminded me of the flash backs in the original Japanese version of "Ring" which is never a bad thing.

This is more scary than anything that Hollywood will produce this year, although I'm yet to see the US version of "Ring". Catch this movie if you like to be hiding behing your hands!!

It scores 8 out of 10 on the Meejoir-Movie-Ometer.

SLIGHT PLOT SPOILERS AHOY!!!!

I have just returned from seeing this movie for the first time at one one my local cinemas "directors chair" evenings, and can honestly say I was shocked at how good this film actually was.

I am sometimes put off with films that are labelled "classics" and more often than not they are very average films and look incredibly dated, (Peeping Tom springs to mind here), Repulsion on the other hand was not either of these.

The direction would not have been out of place in a current film, all of the shots were extremely well constructed and the acting was simply superb. Deneuve was simply stunning to say the least.

I can't remember a film of that age showing so much violence. The nervous breakdown of Carol was simply horrifying.

Many comments have been made on IMDb with reference to Carol's rape fantasies, I interpreted these scenes as flash backs to an incestuous relationship with her father, surely this is the whole point of the photograph with her staring at her father with a look of hatred?

This film is still awesome now, it must have been truly ground breaking back in the mid-sixties.

9 out of 10.

This is easily the scariest movie of the year. No big name stars, relatively un-heard of director all seemingly based in the Big Brother style house!

I loved the wierd camera angles, it felt like you were actually watching a live web-cast. The night time scenes where everything appears in a green light was extremely creepy, especially when the camera picks up the glare of the eyes. They walk round the house in the dark looking like zombies.

Others have commented on the sound in this film being awful. I totally disagree. The sound was what made the scary bits even scarier, I must admit I jumped out my seat a few times early on.

Sure it perhaps dis-integrates into a slasher movie in the last 15 minutes or so but it is still really frightening. There haven't been many films like this, alot of people have said it's perhaps a little like Blair Witch in it's camera style and sound effects, but it's is way scarier than that.

If you like being on the edge of your seat and generally scared sh*tless, go see this movie, you will not be disappointed.