First Look: Jessica Alba’s The Eye Teaser Trailer

Posted by Neil Miller (neil@filmschoolrejects.com) on October 12, 2007

Fridays are usually an incredibly busy day around here as we are rushing around trying to deliver the best reviews for the movies of the weekend. But as they always say, there is nothing wrong with stopping for a moment to enjoy a little bit of Jessica Alba. To follow up her second go ’round as the Invisible Woman in this summer’s Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer and her goofy performance alongside the invisibly talented Dane Cook in Good Luck Chuck, Jessica’s next project will take her into the already exhausted genre of J-Horror remakes. The film is The Eye and it tells the story of Allison (Alba), a blind woman who receives an eye transplant only to find out that the eyes allow her to see some freaky shit. From where I’m sitting it looks like every other J-Horror remake (i.e. The Ring, Pulse, Dark Water, etc.), only this one has Jessica Alba. Seems like an improvement, but I’ll let you decide for yourself by watching the trailer below.

Update: I have been corrected. The original Eye flick came out of Hong Kong, not out of Japan. So I can’t really call it J-Horror. How about H-Horror? How about “please Hollywood, stop taking horror flicks from Asia and remaking them…” Does that work?

Plot Synopsis: Sydney Wells (JESSICA ALBA) is an accomplished, independent, Los Angeles-based concert violinist. She is also blind, and has been so since a childhood tragedy. As our story opens, Sydney undergoes a double corneal transplant, a surgery she has waited her whole life to have, and her sight is restored. After the surgery, neural ophthalmologist Dr. Paul Faulkner (ALESSANDRO NIVOLA) helps Sydney with the difficult adjustment, and with the support of her older sister Helen (PARKER POSEY), Sydney learns to see again.

But Sydney’s happiness is short-lived as unexplainable shadowy and frightening images start to haunt her. Are they a passing aftermath of her surgery, Sydney’s mind adjusting to sight, a product of her imagination, or something horrifyingly real? As Sydney’s family and friends begin to doubt her sanity, Sydney is soon convinced that her anonymous eye donor has somehow opened the door to a terrifying world only she can now see.

The Eye will begin seeing theaters on February 1, 2008.

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