Gin gwai 2

Plot synopsis:
Believing she is being rejected by her boyfriend Sam, Joey attempts suicide with sleeping pills, but recovers after having her stomach pumped. When she looks forward to a brand new life, she discovers that she is pregnant. Being tortured by the thought of an abortion and unable to contact Sam, Joey finds herself becoming delusional and emotionally unstable.
Joey begins to see the spirits of dead people, and also feels stalked by a mysterious ghost woman. She believes the ghost wants to hurt her unborn baby. As the story unfolds, it is discovered that the ghost is Sam's wife who committed suicide by jumping in front of an oncoming train. She is now awaiting Joey's baby's birth so that she may be reincarnated within her.
After discovering this, Joey would rather kill herself and her baby than let this woman become her child. While in a hospital, awaiting the birth of her child, Joey jumps off the building, but survives, gives birth and in the end comes to terms with her situation.
Her psychiatrist's explanation is that Joey feels guilty about Sam's wife's suicide. Finally she accepts this responsibility, no longer recognizing Sam and disillusioned about her baby's father.
As Joey checks out of the hospital, the camera pans across a room of expecting mothers, each with a ghost hovering by their sides.

Tags: revenge

Review:
"The Eye" was easily one of the creepiest Asian horror flicks I have ever seen,so I decided to check out its sequel.Qi Shu plays a young woman Joey Cheng who is in a fragile emotional state following her third relationship break-up.She tries to commit suicide,unfortunately her overdose seemingly triggers a series of visions of creepy spirits,a phenomenon that intensifies in Hong Kong when Joey discovers that she is pregnant."The Eye 2" lacks the suspense and chills of the original.Still there are some memorable set-pieces including a drowned corpse traversing a woman giving birth in the elevator.The acting is great with Qi Shu giving an excellent performance as a troubled woman,but "The Eye 2" is almost completely devoid of tension.However if you are a fan of Asian horror give it a look.7 out of 10..
While not as intense and emotionally involving as the original Jian Gui, this sequel still provides some interesting ideas about life after death...and life before birth.Mentally fragile Joey, suffering from a recent break up with her boyfriend, makes yet another suicide attempt.
But is it revenge the ghost wants, or something else entirely?This film lacks some of the scares that the first one provided quite well and moves along rather slowly, but it is by no means a bad movie at all.
The result is an unusual and disturbing entry into one of the best Asian horror franchises.The Eye 2 introduces us to a new heroine, Joey, who indulges in a shopping spree before swallowing a bottle of pills in a very weak suicide attempt (she asks hotel staff to check in on her before doing the deed).
The image of the falling corpses in the bus-stop scene lingers, the ghost under the table at the restaurant is unnerving and the creepy, womb raiding ghosts would turn anyone off having children.The Pang Brothers are such masters at creating tension and suspense through their eerie visuals and excellent use of sound that you almost forget that this is all window dressing for a paper thin plot.
Joey attempts to commit suicide, is rejected by her boyfriend, finds out she's unexpectedly pregnant, almost raped, asks for an abortion, tries to kill herself at home and then twice more for good measure, in an extended and admirably tasteless scene, in hospital.
So all in all This is a Spin Off.The story itself is a bit hard to understand for Westerners because this movies Chinese Religion and Sayings play an important role in this movie.The drama is good but the movie Lost a lot of it's horrific impact near the end.
The Drama is mostly the cause and effect for what is happening in the movie and they did a pretty good job in a way and it's a movie to watch if your girl wants to watch a horror movie.I have mixed feelings about this movie and there are some things i did not understand therefore i need to watch it again.This movie feels like a mix between 6th sense and Rosemary's baby.
It's not as effective as the original, but still has a few scenes worth watching for.Joey Cheng (Shu Qi, who you might recognize from her terrible performance from Transporter) is a young, pregnant woman who attempts suicide, and fails, only to obtain the ability to see ghosts.
There's a slight mystery involving the woman Joey sees lurking in the train station which leads to sweet ending, but it's not really enough to sustain a 95-minute running time.It falls short of the Eye, though there are a couple of tense moments and it's not completely dissatisfying..
Asia made some of the best horror films ever.But,now,there are clichés.I mean,the images and concepts which were original a few years ago,now,they are not original anymore and the formula feels very tired.The eye,from 2002,was not too original but Pang brothers(the directors)found the appropriate style and development to transform the clichés on a great,creepy and disturbing experience.Now,with The eye 2,the brothers try something similar but,here,they failed.The development this film has is slow and with nothing of originality.The horror scenes are totally predictable and totally weak with scenes of the female ghost with long hair trying to scare,when it makes laugh.The performances are another weak point from this film:Qi Shu,as the main character,and Jesdaporn Pholdee,as her ex-boyfriend,are too shallow and they cannot give ''life'' to their characters.The best performance this film has is Eugenia Yuan's as a ghost.Almost all the time she does not move but,on the very little scenes we see her ''alive'',her performance is more realistic than the entire cast.The ending is the best point of the movie and it puts on a different context every thing we saw during the ending.But the ending comes too late and after a very generic development.The eye 2 is pretty generic,boring and very far away from the original..
As has been said, this movie has virtually nothing to do with the original Eye, except for the blurry ghost effects and music video style direction/editing.
My biggest complaint was the music-video style of this movie, too slick and cool to really make this movie scary or unnerving, Pang Brothers have good potential to make some effective horror but always resort to trendy camera-work, cheesy synthesizers and obvious "scary moment" sound and music that renders their work a bit shallow and more juvenile than it should be.
Scary Story, Deceptive End. Joey Cheng (Qi Shu) attempts to suicide using an overdose of sleeping pills, when her boyfriend breaks up with her.
When she finds that she is pregnant, she decides to have the baby and protect him against the frightening ghosts."Jian gui" is one of my favorite horror movies, and "Jian gui 2" has also a very scary story, with one of the strongest scenes I have ever seen.
DO NOT I REPEAT DO NOT WATCH THIS MOVIE IF YOU ARE EXPECTING A CHILD ANY TIME SOON!This sequel is similar in story terms to the Pang Brothers original movie by the same name.
On another note, she is pregnant to the boyfriend who she breakup too, will her baby be born?The only thing good about this movie is the scary depressing act by Shu Qi. The suspense of this movie is equally has good has the eye, but it not has scary.
If you want to see a good suspense thriller, go watch Koma, the new Anglica Lee movie (whom she was in the first eye).
After a failed suicide attempt, a pregnant young woman, Joey, begins seeing some not-so-benign spirits.
This sequel to the 2002 film "The Eye", plot-wise, is unrelated, though much of the original's crew has returned, including the Pang Bros.
The Pang Brothers could easily be the exception to the rule and "The Eye 2" is a fine example.The story centers around Joey a troubled young woman whose recent troubles in the romance department led to a bottched suicide attempt as Joey recovers she attempts to get her life on track she discovers she is with child.
After her suicide attempt Joey begins having vision and strange occurncess begin to plague her and her unborn child."The Eye 2" is more a reworking of the original idea than a sequel as no knowledge of the original is required.
Anyone who has seen a Pang Brothers film will know of their amazing visual style of story telling and both eye films have been a fine example of this.
The Pang Brothers are becoming jack of all trades and "The Eye 2" is great victory lap that packs visual scares to the max and delivers one of the best horror movies in years..
Soon enough, by the time I was 16, I was ordering Region-Free imports of films and series online, scouring the shelves of the local Video King for the latest translated releases and borrowing whatever I could from friends and relatives.One of my favorite finds around that time was the Pang Brother's wonderfully eerie and thrilling 2002 release "The Eye"- a fun but somewhat flawed ghost-story about a woman who goes through a cornea transplant and gains the ability to see spirits and ghouls.
Not a direct sequel by any means, the film tells a unique tale regarding a depressed woman named Joey (Shu Qi) who tries to commit suicide after a failed relationship, but survives and learns that she is pregnant with the child of her former lover.
Having just finished watching it, I can confirm that, while it's nowhere near the same level of quality as the first movie, it turns out to be a fairly decent horror film in its own right.The story follows on from the first film's but goes off on a tangent.
Danny & Oxide Pang paint their film in broader strokes, throwing in a couple of Hong Kong urban legends (the faceless woman and the voice at the bus stop) that make no sense in relation to the plot but which make good fright scenes anyway.
Although an attempt to emulate the first film's lift scene is an unmitigated disaster (those underwater swimming-style effects shots made me chuckle if anything) a lot of the other scary moments are effective, particularly a moment involving a couple of ghosts at the bus stop.It's not a great movie, which is mainly down to the writing; the script dictates that the leading character is selfish and repellent for much of the running time, so there's a distinct lack of somebody to root for.
In the Pang Brothers 'sequel-in-name-only' to their 2002 hit The Eye, Shu Qi plays Joey Cheng, a young woman who, after a failed suicide attempt, realises that she can see the spirits of dead people, including those who are waiting to be reincarnated.
This proves to be quite unsettling for Joey since she is pregnant, and the spirit of her ex-boyfriend's dead wife wants to become her child.Ghost in a taxi; ghost in a lift; ghost under a table; ghosts falling from the sky: The Eye 2 has plenty of spook action, and yet it still remains remarkably scare-free, the pale-faced spirits in this film being far from malevolent, doing very little apart from turning up unexpectedly in the strangest of places.
Joey looks rather upset by the whole affair, which I guess is understandable—it's not unreasonable to want to visit the loo or have a shower without being disturbed by restless dead people—but all things considered, there are far worse ghosts out there to be haunted by.In the end, Joey's personal supernatural stalker, who only wishes to be reborn so that she can forget all about her previous unhappy life, turns out to be a sort of guardian angel, preventing any harm from coming to her 'mother-to-be'.
I am trying to find something positive I can say about this movie...Shu Qi is still cute (except when she is vomiting)...some scenes were laughable to the point of hilarity...suicide -is- a way out, apparently (which by the way, in spite of what the film's producers may think, is actually contrary to Buddhist teachings)....Alright, I give up.
*Yawn*After watching 'The Eye 2,' it's pretty clear that The Pang Brothers are overhyped one-hit wonders, who happened to make it big when the horror genre hit an all-time low.
*Yawn*After watching 'The Eye 2,' it's pretty clear that The Pang Brothers are overhyped one-hit wonders, who happened to make it big when the horror genre hit an all-time low.
If "The Eye" remake does well which I'm hoping it does for the sake of the Pang Brothers movie careers, but at the same time it seems a shame that people won't/can't see the original, because very often/almost always the remake isn't as good as the original.
The Eye was one the best horror movies to come in last 10 years or so, it one of favourite of horror movies of all time., it was really creepy and wheel made.The Eye 2 is stand alone movies, it not connected to the first movie.After a failed suicide attempt, a pregnant woman gains the ability to see ghosts.This movie is not as good or as creepy as The Eye however this movie hold up by it self, there were some really good scenes this movie The scenes with baby scan, freaked me out little and I really liked the scenes at the bust stop as it made Jump twice in 60 seconds.The acting in this movie was good but not great.
Don't get me wrong, I love Asian movies - it's just that in recent months, every film I'd watched had the same Ringu-like ghosts, the same overall feel.For me, "The Eye 2" felt like a breath of fresh air.
There are some genuinely effective "BOO!" moments in the first half, and a real sense of unease throughout the proceedings.The very beautiful and extremely talented Shu Qi plays the central character, Joey, who's failed suicide attempt opens communication channels with the world of the dead.
By borrowing from urban ghost stories, the directors include some very effective and chilling set pieces into their movie.For the sake of realism, Shu Qi certainly had to go through some pretty unpleasant experiences - in the first 10 minutes of the film, there's a hospital scene that some may find difficult to watch.The Pang Brothers have delivered, in my opinion, a better film than "The Eye".
If you're looking for more of the first 'Eye' movie, nothing too similar going on here, but you can easily sense the Pang brothers sense and style in this uneven sequel like they had in the 1st.
I don't see The Eye, but The Eye 2 is a great movie for Asian cinema:) My favorite Shu Qi (for me the best actress in the world!) make a big step with this film.
I watch this one because Qi Shu is in it....I don't believe I actually see this movie, after seeing the original "the eye" which I don't recall liking it a bit.
The good thing about original Asian horror including this movie is that they have very good stories.
It is about a Pregnant woman called Joey (Shu Qi) who is on the brink of madness after several suicide attempts.
I picked up this release together with the first part about three weeks ago, but I watched the Gin gwai 2 just yesterday and I was well frightened and entertained.The good things about this movie are the original story (average quality of the story was the only flaw in the first part), qualities of cinematography and sound-tech guys and overall atmosphere and the prime sense of Asian horror, delivered by the filmmakers of this title.But this film suffers from some fatal flaws in story line and the following depiction of this probably undeveloped or lazy developed story.
But I put this in the following way - another passable flaw of this movie.So, if you can get past these flaws and concentrate on the story (which managed to be intellectual too) and cinematography in general (nice work), you can experience lots of horror and drama from this good-done title..
I believe it was the ghost of this woman protecting Joey.Alot of people did not like this film, but I found it very moving.
****Probably will contain spoilers****After a successful attempt to get attention (I would not call making sure that you get help before you die a "failed suicide attempt"), Joey finds out that she is pregnant and starts seeing images of spirits.Overall the movie was a little slow going, but entertaining enough to watch the whole thing.
It's about a pregnant woman who is able to see ghosts and spirits after an incident happened to her.The sound effects scared the hell out of me though momentarily but that's the only scary thing.
Unfortunately, after viewing it, I was let down quite a bit and didn't enjoy it as much as the first, with this one being somewhat slower-paced and less creepy too.This isn't really a sequel to the first movie either as it doesn't have any of the characters from The Eye, and it has it's own separate storyline.
I'm not sure, but it's as if the Pang Brothers were trying to make a film that dealt more in delivering suspense rather than pure "scare the s**t out of you" as it was more subdued this time around.
Although the film has many jump scares i found the acting was top notch and the film was not only scary, in parts it was disturbing too.The story starts with Cheng a pregnant woman who is struggling to survive because the father of her baby wants nothing to do with her, Cheng tries to commit suicide but fails and in replacement she gains the ability to see ghosts.
I wouldn't let it though because when its revealed why they are drawn to pregnant woman the placement of the ghosts in each scene makes sense and is probably the scariest part of the film.
The film really uses the idea of reincarnation to full effect providing the story with an interesting narrative..spirits cling to the pregnant entering the wombs of women before they deliver eliminating the life they once lived to begin anew.
The element of the unexplained is lost, and it is that very element; particularly in ghost story, that can provide the most effective scares .The Eye 2 (which is not a true sequel) suffers in exactly the same way, as very early in the film, the appearance of the ghostly visions are fully explained, as are their motives ...
The unfortunate consequence of this is that once the spirit's motives are known; (unpleasant enough as they are) the ghosts themselves cease to be in the least bit scary.The Eye 2 is by no means a bad film, it simply fails to deliver the scares that The Eye; (well, the first half at least) did with such effective aplomb.
If it's a genuinely creepy horror film you are after, The Eye 2 may leave ardent fans of the genre more than a little disappointed..
This time out they're telling a completely different ghost story that has little to do with the original film.