Saturday, November 29, 2025

Ghost Eyes (1974) (Hong Kong)

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Fate proves unkind for Bao Ling, a young salon worker, when a fiendishly sexy stranger comes into her life. Breaking her glasses on her way home from work, the stranger offers her discounted contact lenses if she stops by his optometrist office. His kindness proves to be anything but when the young woman’s life takes a turn into strange and dangerous territory after she wears her new contacts for the first time. Her life force begins to drain and she is beset by horrific apparitions as her physical health withers away. Worse yet, the evil optometrist is a vampiric ghost who burnt to death three years prior and is now feeding off the young woman to sustain some semblance of life. Much to Bao Ling’s horror, he has grown tired of her and wants her to start offering him her friends. Finding little help from her skeptical but concerned boyfriend and a Taoist monk, Bao Ling readies herself for an all or nothing final battle with the surprisingly powerful psychic monster. Wonderfully odd but restrained Shaw Brothers production may be a letdown for fans of their crazier output. I found myself digging the weirdness and it kicks into high gear in the final thirty minutes as the shit hits the fan for everyone involved. Have a good feeling this will get better with each viewing… not that it wasn’t a good time on this initial watch.

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