The Eye/YMMV

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  • Crowning Moment of Heartwarming - Several Mun/Wah moments (especially the last scene), as well as pretty much all of the scenes between Mun and Ying Ying.
    • The scene in which Mun is able to stare at herself in the mirror for the first time since she was a child very much induces the smiles and warm fuzzies. Of course, this scene takes on a much different significance when The Reveal comes about...
  • Crowning Music of Awesome: Pretty much the entire soundtrack, containing some gorgeous emotional pieces alongside the brilliantly scary pieces, but a notable example is Mun's mournful violin solo, which plays during a montage of her temporarily becoming a recluse after seeing one too many ghosts.
  • High Octane Nightmare Fuel: The elevator scene from the first movie is this, and is widely considered to be the most frightening moment in the entire film. The elevator scene from the second movie also counts.
    • "Why are you sitting in my chair?"
    • The old woman in the hospital. Eek.
    • The scene in the second movie when Joey suddenly turns around and sees the screaming ghost standing there for a split second.
    • Those two ghosts plummeting off the roof in the second movie.
    • There is something deeply unsettling about Mun/Sydney's realization that the face she sees in the mirror isn't hers. Could also double as Paranoia Fuel.
  • Paranoia Fuel: There are ghosts everywhere and most of us can't even see them. That elevator you're riding? There's a disfigured old man in the corner just waiting to sneak up on you. That calligraphy class you're taking? You're sitting in some chick's seat, and she isn't happy about it.
  • Sequelitis: Many feel that The Eye 10 and The Child's Eye are inferior to the first two films.
  • Special Effect Failure: The obviously-CG purple tongue from the first film's café scene.
  • Tear Jerker: The Reveal that Ying Ying has died. Her funeral, too.
    • The scene in which Ling's spirit is finally put to rest.
    • Not to mention the aftermath of the enormous gas tanker explosion. The sight of all those poor, burnt corpses is incredibly haunting and heartbreaking.
    • Mun's scene with Ying Ying, shortly after she's just has chemotherapy, is utterly heart-rending, especially on a repeat viewing, when one takes into account that it's the last time they ever speak - when Ying Ying is still alive, anyway. They never get to play together outside of the hospital, after all...
  • The Woobie - Mun, Joey, Ling and Yuen.