The Eye 10
The Eye 10 (Chinese: 见鬼10; Gin gwai 10), also released as The Eye 3 and The Eye Infinity, is a 2005 Hong Kong horror comedy directed by the Pang Brothers, Oxide Pang Chun and Danny Pang, and the third installment of The Eye series despite its title number1 • 2. The "10" refers to the ten methods of seeing ghosts described in a mysterious book that the film's teenage characters use one night in Thailand2.
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Original title | Gin gwai 10 (见鬼10); also known as The Eye 3 and The Eye Infinity1 • 3 |
| Release | March 24, 2005; Hong Kong and Thailand; Cantonese, English, and Thai1 |
| Directors and writers | Oxide Pang Chun and Danny Pang, with Mark Wu on the screenplay1 |
| Runtime | 81 minutes (listed as 84 or 86 minutes by some databases)1 • 3 • 4 |
| Series position | Third film in The Eye series, after The Eye (2002) and The Eye 2 (2004)2 |
| Producers | Peter Chan Ho-Sun, Lawrence Cheng, Jojo Hui, and Eric Tsang5 |
| US release | Reached the United States three years after its Hong Kong release, direct to DVD6 |
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Premise and plot
A group of four friends from Hong Kong, Ted (Chen Bolin), May (Kate Yeung), Gofei (Kris Gu), and April (Isabella Leong), visit their Thai friend Chongkwai (Ray MacDonald) in Thailand5. One night, while telling ghost stories, Chongkwai produces a book called The Ten Encounters, bought from a strange bookstore, which lists ten methods by which a living person can see ghosts6. The group treats the methods as a game and begins trying them, including a Ouija board, playing hide and seek with a black cat, and offering a midnight meal at a crossroads5.
The game turns serious. During a hide-and-seek attempt, ghosts surround Gofei, who then vanishes; as the others return to Hong Kong, spirits begin causing further disappearances, and the friends return to Thailand to seek the help of a ghost-busting granny to lift the curse6 • 2.
The first two methods in the book are titled "The Case of the Cornea Transplant" and "The Case of Attempting Suicide While Pregnant", self-referential nods to The Eye and The Eye 2 accompanied by stock footage of Angelica Lee and Shu Qi from those films; the kids do not attempt these two5. The three films in the series stand as independent stories, connected only by brief clips used as "true life incidents" in the ghost-story scene6.
Production and context
The film came from Applause Pictures, the production company founded by producer Peter Chan Ho-Sun in 2000 to encourage crossovers and co-productions among Asian film industries6 • 7. The original The Eye (2002) had been a pan-Asian hit and became the highest-grossing Hong Kong movie ever in Thailand7, and it was later remade in Hollywood as The Eye (2008) starring Jessica Alba6.
The title was announced early. In May 2004, Oxide Pang told the horror magazine Fangoria that the third Eye film "will actually be called The Eye 10, and it will be about 10 ways to see a ghost. It will be a pretty funny film"8.
Reception
The Eye 10 is generally regarded as the weakest entry in the trilogy. It did not circulate on the film festival circuit and took three years to reach the United States, and then only on DVD6. The review site LoveHKFilm called it a disappointment compared with its predecessors, "too silly and inconsequential to be anything more than a minor distraction", while crediting the directors with trying to shake up their formula5. The Hong Kong review site hkfilm.net scored it 5 out of 10, describing a near-incomprehensible plot and lame comedy, including a dance-off between teenagers and a possessed child2.
Reviewers singled out both effective and failed sequences. Moria praised the opening scene of a girl levitating among praying Buddhist monks and the crossroads scene in which ghosts with dark pits for eyes advance on the group, but called the breakdancing sequence, in which the possessed Ted walks up a wall and along the ceiling, "the lamest sequence to ever take place in a Pang Brothers film", and noted that the climactic trip into the afterlife descends into lowbrow comedy when Ted drives off the dead with his flatulence6. A recurring critical point was that the ghosts never seriously threaten anyone, so the scares barely register5.
Cast
- Chen Bolin as Ted (Tak)1
- Isabella Leong as April1
- Kate Yeung as May1
- Ray MacDonald as Chongkwai1
- Kris Gu (Yu Gu) as Gofei1
- Bongkoj Khongmalai as the mysterious Thai girl1
References
- The Eye 10, AsianWiki
- The Eye 10 review, hkfilm.net
- The Eye 10 (2005), FilmAffinity
- The Eye 10 (2005) | MUBI
- The Eye 10 (見鬼10) (2005), LoveHKFilm
- The Eye 10 (2005), Moria, The Science Fiction Horror and Fantasy Film Review
- Cue a fast pan across Asia, Los Angeles Times (2003)
- Pang Brothers talk Eye sequels, other films, Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal (2004)
Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Films and standalone screen works › Individual films by title and year › Franchise and series entries as standalone works › Horror and slasher series film entries › 2000s releases
Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 3, 2026; Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026
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