{"id":61078,"date":"2019-10-09T23:48:12","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T20:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asianmoviepulse.com\/?p=61078"},"modified":"2019-10-10T00:09:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T21:09:36","slug":"film-review-the-3rd-eye-2018-by-rocky-soraya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asianmoviepulse.com\/2019\/10\/film-review-the-3rd-eye-2018-by-rocky-soraya\/","title":{"rendered":"Film Review: The 3rd Eye (2018) by Rocky Soraya"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Among the numerous mainstream Hollywood genre adaptations, James Wan\u2019s megahits \u201cInsidious\u201d and \u201cThe Conjuring\u201d both serve as major tent poles for most modern fans to look at as being the prototypical films to copy or emulate. This certainly seems to be the case for this Indonesian effort helmed by rising director Rocky Soraya, who takes inspiration from both to turn out this new take on the genre, now available on Netflix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Following the death of their parents, teenager Alia (Jessica Mila) is forced to take care of her younger sister Abel (Bianca Hello) and move back into their childhood home together. Taking her boyfriend Davin (Denny Sumargo) along for help, their efforts to settle in and move on are continuously interrupted by Abel’s claims that someone or something is living in the house with them. After visiting the psychic Wu Bindu (Citra Prima) to understand what’s going on, Alia soon comes to grips with the fact that her initial stories are true as she can now see the ghosts living among them and tries to help her save the spirits of the ghosts trapped in the house. As they attempt to do so, they find a far more sinister motive behind their appearance than originally suspected and must use all their supernatural knowledge and powers to put an end to the nightmare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Overall, “The 3rd Eye” serves as quite an enjoyable supernatural effort. One of Soraya’s better qualities is the strong use of classic haunted house tropes for the supernatural scenes. This one takes plenty of inspiration from Hollywood films, by offering up numerous shock scenes with the ghosts walking behind someone, suddenly with a piercing musical sting afterward, flash-cut sequences of ghastly inhuman figures interacting with characters only to disappear suddenly, as well as a tendency to focus on intense and vicious attack scenes. Opening up with a vicious attack on the daughter is a great start, much like the later exorcism scenes or the possessed seeking revenge on the guilty party amongst them. On top of this, the film’s strong atmospheric touches provide several chilling encounters. The first encounter in the house offers an eerie ambiance, with it obviously not being lived in for a long time while the later scenes featuring them wandering through the darkened house during the thunderstorm provide strong atmospheric touches. There’s so much to like here with the bloody, deformed ghosts appearing to her in the hospital which set up the scenes of the ghost family attacking Alia in the house that night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n