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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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26 Comments
October 12th, 2007 at 4:30 pm
Here’s to hoping she does a sequel called “The Boob,” which has her breasts bouncing around naked the whole film.
October 12th, 2007 at 4:56 pm
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October 12th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
The original was so good that i feel asleep half way in and didn’t even bother to go back and watch it, which is very rare for me.
I’m on board with Kevin, though, for “The Boob.” They should do back to back sequels (because those always turn out great) and pair “The Ass” or perhaps just “Left Cheek” with it.
October 12th, 2007 at 7:52 pm
Hear! Hear! I say make it a whole hokey-pokey series… Left Cheek, Right Cheek, Shake ‘Em All About!
October 12th, 2007 at 10:36 pm
Why remake a film when the original was crap? Stupid…
October 12th, 2007 at 10:57 pm
Brian — Remake a crappy movie with another crappy movie?
Nay, remake a crappy movie with Jessica Alba… That sounds more like it.
October 13th, 2007 at 6:51 am
What a bunch of jerks.
October 13th, 2007 at 6:54 am
This almost looks like a shot by shot remake too. Pointless.
October 13th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
Didn’t they do a flick like this in a movie called “Body Bags”. A Carpenter flick. Mark Hamill played a baseball player who lost an eye and then transplanted another and it ended up carrying the dreams and desires of a killer in which Mark Hamill saw “horrible” things and ended up stabbing out his new eye.
THIS NEW MOVIE SUCKS ALREADY! YAY!
October 13th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
This is not a J-remake, it is a C-remake. THIS IS BASED ON A CHINESE MOVIE NOT A CRAPPY JAPANESE MOVIE :D
October 13th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
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October 13th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
Gmail here! Hey, The Eye was a great movie and had the biggest shocking twist since Sixth Sense. Alba’s finally doing some acting. This might be decent. Gmail out!
October 13th, 2007 at 2:37 pm
Yeah, get your facts straight. It’s a Hong Kong movie remake, not a Japanese Horror. To you all Asians are probably the same, but people take offense if you identify them incorrectly.
October 13th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
There’s a fairly recent porno flick from Vivid Pictures called “Eye of the Beholder” with a very similar plot to this… >.>
October 13th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
falun’s prolly some white boy who cant tell the difference between people of other races. Typical.
October 13th, 2007 at 3:59 pm
Chinese and Japanese aren’t different races, they’re nationalities. It’s very hard to tell someones nationality by looks. Just playing Devil’s Advocate, peace!
October 13th, 2007 at 5:55 pm
Falun — You are correct. The original was from Hong Kong.
My bad.
October 13th, 2007 at 8:52 pm
nest in ya biscuits u racists. MALLEK!
October 13th, 2007 at 8:56 pm
an y u malleks b usin dis as if it b AIM… This ain’t a chatroom!
—doinkishly nested mallek biscuits
October 13th, 2007 at 9:40 pm
the original was great, and so was the sequel, which was actually unrelated to the first.
October 13th, 2007 at 11:10 pm
In yet another blow to this film’s credibility, the same basic plot was used in a book by Steven Morgan, it’s called “My Soul to Take” and is about a blind artist who gets his eyesight back through surgery and then starts to see some “crazy shit”.
October 14th, 2007 at 5:40 pm
This is actually based off of a Japanese horror movie that was made a few years ago. Another remake. Let’s hope its better than “Pulse.”
October 21st, 2007 at 7:26 pm
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December 4th, 2007 at 11:05 am
I am curious to why you find the original was crappy,I watched it and liked it,it was scarier than lots of English ghost movie like Gothika and The Ring Remake which I found totally nonsensical since it isn’t scary at all,in fact it shouldn’t be called a remake because it doesn’t do the Ring any justice.I guess because you guys are westerners so you don’t really find understand the movie because most of the things are Chinese related things.I hope this remake will do justice to the Asian version and help yu guys understand better of course with a few changes to make it suit westerners.
Can’t wait to see it but I have a feeling it will be a flop because most Asian to American remake is quite bad.An example is The Ring.
December 30th, 2007 at 3:39 pm
Interesting discussion. ISn’t this a ripoff of that Simpson’s halloween episode where Homer’s hair transplant takes over his mind?
Just kidding. Here’s a slightly am amusing take on this movie … from an eye doctor’s perspective.
The Eye (with Alba) Eye Review
Also, it seems like I saw a movie over a decade ago about a man who had an arm transplant that possesed him.