The Eye

2008 PG-13 1h 37m Blu-ray / DVD

The Eye

2008 PG-13 1h 37m Blu-ray / DVD
  • Overview
  • Details
Blind violinist Sydney Wells regains her sight after undergoing a corneal transplant -- but the surgery's creepy side effects include the ability to see supernatural beings. Worse, no one believes her, calling her sanity into question.
Cast
Jessica Alba, Alessandro Nivola, Parker Posey, Rade Serbedzija, Fernanda Romero, Rachel Ticotin, Obba Babatundé, Danny Mora, Chloë Grace Moretz, Landall Goolsby
Director
David Moreau, Xavier Palud
Format
Blu-ray DVD
Screen
Widescreen 1.85:1
Subtitles
English, Spanish (Neutral)
CC
No
Audio
English: Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish (Neutral): Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Screen
Widescreen 1.85:1
Subtitles
English, Spanish (Neutral)
CC
No
Audio
English: Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish (Neutral): Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Rating
PG-13 - Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13. Parents are urged to be cautious. Some material may be inappropriate for pre-teenagers. PG-13 - Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13. Parents are urged to be cautious. Some material may be inappropriate for pre-teenagers.
age 15+
Common Sense rating OK for kids 15+
age 15+

Common Sense Note

Parents need to know that this creepy horror film (which stars teen favorite Jessica Alba) features many suspenseful scenes full of ghosts, dead people, and shadows; these sequences are made scarier by the way the camera emulates Sydney's blurry vision. Violence includes explosions and fires in which people are burned. A brief scene shows Alba in the shower from the shoulders up, with her arm covering her breasts; another angle shows her crouched figure through a blurry door. Language is unusually mild for a PG-13 film.

Sexual Content

Sydney appears nude (from the shoulders up) in the shower through a blurry glass door, with an arm covering her breasts. She wears a cleavage-revealing gown at film's end.

Violence

Sydney is haunted by a number of distorted, scary, and injured-looking ghosts. Violence -- occurring in visions, memories, and real time -- includes an assault in a coffee shop, a car that hits a woman, a car that hits a gas truck (big explosion), a fire in a factory that leaves workers trapped and screaming, suicides (falling out a window, hanging), smashing windows with arms (one left bloody), and a creepy "Shadowman" who escorts souls to death (he looks mean and roars at Sydney). Montages are especially aggressive, with slamming images of harrowing situations (fires, agonies, bleeding eyes); tense scenes show Sydney walking through shadowy hallways, pursued by creatures/ghosts or unable to see clearly.

Language

One use each of "hell" and "ass."

Social Behavior

Sydney's fears inspire derision from her conductor/mentor and argument from her therapist. But she's a plucky girl and is determined to solve her own problem when the men refuse.

Consumerism

Starbucks coffee.

Drugs / Tobacco / Alcohol

Sydney drinks sherry the night before her surgery.

  • Age appropriate
  • Not an issue
  • Depends on your child and your family
  • Parents strongly cautioned
  • Not appropriate for kids of the age

This information for parents is provided by Common Sense Media, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving kids' media lives.

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