Movie Preview | The Eye
Written by: Katherine Brodsky

The Eye is an indie supernatural thriller that is being released in the U.S. on June 6th by Palm Pictures. The film is directed by Danny and Oxide Pang and has received 3 Hong Kong Academy Award nominations. The Eye was the top grossing horror film in Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore, Korea and the UK last year. This movie has an immense cult following and right have been purchased last year by Tom Cruise's production company, signaling that an English remake is likely to turn up soon.

Synopsis: The story revolves around a blind woman Mun (Lee Sin-Je) who undergoes a risky cornea transplant operation that restores her vision, but causes a series of inexplicable events and visions.  Unable to decipher what is real from what is a trick of her new eyes, Mun goes on a desperate path to uncover the truth and find out what it is that she is seeing through her new eyes. The movie is bound to keep audience on the edge of their seats, entranced with the beauty and subtlety of the story and cinematography. 

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Movie Review:
http://www.modamag.com/eye_dvd.htm (Kage Alan)

Win!
You can win an awesome flashlight from the movie just for telling us of a trick that your eyes played on you once. The Eye Flashlight is about 4 inches long, has the name of the movie on the side and the image of an eye on the face. We you shine it on something, it projects the eye image onto it. How cool is that? We've got three of those to give away to you. E-mail modamag@modamag.com with your answer to the question, along with your age, sex, how your heard of modamag.com, occupation and mailing address. Only completed entries will be considered. Winners will be selected based on creativity.