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The Eye 2 (见鬼2)

The Eye 2 (见鬼2, also released as Jian gui 2) is a 2004 Hong Kong and Thai horror film directed by Oxide Pang and Danny Pang, in which a pregnant woman who survives a suicide attempt finds she can see ghosts, one of which seeks to be reborn as her child.¹ It is the second film in the Eye series begun by The Eye (2002), though its story and characters are unrelated to the first film.¹^•²

Key fact	Detail
Original title	见鬼2 (Jian gui 2)³
Directors	Oxide Pang and Danny Pang (the Pang Brothers)¹
Release	18 March 2004 in Hong Kong; 26 March 2004 in Taiwan³
Lead cast	Shu Qi as Joey Cheng, Jesdaporn Pholdee as Sam, Eugenia Yuan, Philip Kwok as a Buddhist master²
Production	Applause Pictures; screenplay by Jojo Hui; producers include Peter Ho-sun Chan and Lawrence Cheng¹^•²
Reception	80% Tomatometer (5 reviews) and 53% Popcornmeter (5,000+ ratings) on Rotten Tomatoes; 5.7/10 on IMDb from about 5,300 users²^•⁴
Runtime	Reported as 94 minutes by Rotten Tomatoes, 95 minutes by TV Spielfilm and eiga.com, and 98 minutes by Mediacorp²^•⁵^•⁶

Spoilers

Plot

Joey Cheng (Shu Qi), feeling ignored by her married lover Sam (Jesdaporn Pholdee), takes an overdose of sleeping pills in a hotel room and is rescued after being found in time.¹^•⁶ After coming around she realizes she can see phantom figures that nobody else can see, and she also learns she is pregnant.¹

The visions multiply. Joey sees a woman jump in front of a train at a station, but no body is found on the tracks and no one else saw her; she shares a taxi with a figure whose face is replaced by a ponytail; and in a maternity clinic she sees ghosts standing behind each expectant mother.¹^•³ She comes to understand that the spirit of a dead woman is trying to reincarnate in the body of her unborn child, and she sets out to discover who the woman was in life.¹ A Buddhist master played by Philip Kwok figures in her search.²

Production and the Eye series

The film was a Hong Kong and Thailand co-production made by Applause Pictures with Media Corp Raintree Pictures, from a screenplay by Jojo Hui and a story by Jojo Hui and Lawrence Cheng, with photography by Decha Srimantra and music by Payont Permsith.¹ Peter Ho-sun Chan, who produced the series, is credited among the producers.¹^•²

The Pang Brothers had made a substantial international hit with The Eye (2002), which propelled them among the prominent names of the 2000s wave of Asian horror.¹ The Eye 2 shares the first film's premise of a protagonist who sees what others cannot, but it follows a new character and story.⁷^•² The brothers followed it with The Eye 10 (2005), and the original film was remade in Hollywood as The Eye (2008).¹ In 2005, trade reports said a Hollywood remake of The Eye 2 itself was planned under the title In-Utero, with Vertigo producing and New Line distributing.⁸

Reception

On Rotten Tomatoes the film holds an 80% Tomatometer from five critics, with an average of rated reviews of 7.50/10, and a 53% Popcornmeter score from more than 5,000 audience ratings.² Derek Elley of Variety called it "a second, less rewarding trot round the shock block," while reviewers at Dread Central and eFilmCritic rated it 4/5, the latter describing a film that "does its best to be more complex, more fulfilling than the average horror film."² IMDb users give it 5.7/10 from about 5,300 ratings.⁴

Audience and critical opinion has often divided on the same point: some viewers found it an improvement over the first film with stronger set pieces, while others saw it as a sequel with no connection to the original and a slow first half.²^•⁹ The Moria review rated it four stars and judged it "a much superior film to The Eye," praising the brothers' use of everyday settings, such as the train-station suicide that only Joey can see.¹ Shu Qi's performance drew repeated notice, with reviewers crediting her with elevating the material.²^•⁹

References

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 3, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026

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