Lionsgate has released the teaser poster for The Eye, a bone-chilling supernatural thriller that tests the boundaries of perception and reality.
The Eye stars Jessica Alba, Alessandro Nivola, and Parker Posey, and is directed by David Moreau and Xavier Palud, the team who directed the suspenseful international hit Them.
Yahoo! Movies has the first trailer; see teaser poster at here right (click for larger view) and official synopsis just below.
The Eye hits theaters February 1, 2008
Official 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.
Amazing poster! Simple yet freaky as hell. Good job on this one.
For goodness sake, I have had ENOUGH WITH THE AMERICAN REMAKES OF JAPENESE HORRORS!!!
In fact, enough of American remakes of foreign cinema.
The Eye, one of my all-time favourite films, let alone japenese films, is now being remade. And if the american producers even THINK about changing the ending, I will hunt them down and strangle them.
If you have not seen it, I suggest that you do, before seeing the american version, so as with the american versions of all these japenese films (The Ring, Dark Water), you can laugh at it and wonder why you wasted your time on watching such a crap version of such a brilliant plot.
See, I can forgive The Grudge, since it featured a majority of the cast and crew from the japenese film, and the same locations, since it was filmed at the same time, and stuck very well to the original plot.
The Ring, however, was very, very crap (although in all honesty I did enjoy the second installment, putting aside my love of the original film and watching it as-is). Dark Water I refuse to go near.
Yeaaahhh…
The original (er… Chinese) movie is brilliant. I fear this one, though. I just don’t think Jessica Alba has the chops to bring to the main character. She’s not as horrible as everyone else thinks, but neither is she exactly Oscar-worthy.