Open your eyes to a bold new vision in gothic thrills and chills from acclaimed producer Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy).
A tantalising Giallo – infused tale of terror and the smash sensation of the 2010 Spanish box office – Julia’s Eyes is not only “cleverly original” (FEARnet), but a full-tilt assault on the senses.
When a young woman, suffering from a degenerative eye disease, discovers her twin sister hanged in the basement of her house, everything points to suicide.
Itched by other suspicions, Julia (Belén Rueda, The Orphanage) decides to investigate what she intuitively feels is a murder case and embarks on a dark journey where the emanating light is literally fading to a flicker at the tunnel’s twisted end.
As Julia begins to uncover the terrifying truth about her sister’s death, her sight deteriorates, blurred between a series of unexplained disappearances, deaths and her own desperate struggle for survival.
With a knowing nod to classic Hitchcock, Argento and De Palma, Julia’s Eyes is a chilling new chapter in Spanish shock cinema.
“Los Ojos de Julia” (Julia’s Eyes) is a journey into the physical and emotional darkness of a woman who is forced to face her most intimate fears. The protagonist’s increasing isolation, that of a woman losing her sight, serves as a means of telling, in the form of a terrifying nightmare, the story of a journey of acceptance, of overcoming your own limits, of love, and of survival.
As in the world of emotions, “Los Ojos de Julia” plays with the fine line separating the visible from the invisible, the real from the unreal, what we see from what we imagine. And it does so by placing its heroine in extreme situations, obliging her to solve a jigsaw puzzle for which there are barely any pieces.
