Evil Eye Reviews
An okay film, but certainly not in terms of something billed as a thriller.
| Feb 22, 2023
I found my mind wandering as I waited for the inevitable twist. You know, the ones that have come with every “Welcome to Blumhouse” film so far.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 17, 2022
The emotional impact of the story is blunted by underdeveloped characters, a muddled climax, and a frustrating lack of action.
| Aug 28, 2021
All good intentions ... are lost in a sea of stupid plot twists that serve only to trivialize the topic at hand, making the entire enterprise feel flagrantly opportunistic.
| Jun 5, 2021
A cross-continental horror thriller doesn't translate into scares...
| Original Score: 3/5 | May 7, 2021
Not creditable.
| Original Score: C+ | Feb 26, 2021
[Evil Eye]squanders the potential of its able cast and its cultural specificity with a riff on stalker horror so generic that the film would fit in much better as a Lifetime movie.
| Original Score: D+ | Jan 29, 2021
Despite an idea that may be original and attractive, the film loses the force that could hide its plot by delaying the start of its thriller until the final section of the film. [Full review in Spanish]
| Original Score: 4/10 | Jan 3, 2021
Elan Dassani makes the ride enjoyable, letting Choudhury unleash some powerful maternal instincts in a satisfying, last-act showdown.
| Nov 10, 2020
Evil Eye has a delicious slow boil that gets you wholly sewn up in the characters' alarm bells over mundane developments until the epic pay-off in the finale.
| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 8, 2020
Supernatural horror thrillers are a dime a dozen these days, and this new Blumhouse tale fails to make any sort of impression.
| Nov 6, 2020
Sarita Choudhury lends this intercontinental family melodrama (and would-be occult thriller) more gravitas than it deserves.
| Original Score: C | Nov 3, 2020
Ironically enough, Evil Eye works best when it skates away from its genre trappings.
| Oct 29, 2020
Their use of split screens is genius-level; it connects mother and daughter, despite their great distance. But like every entry in Welcome to the Blumhouse so far, Evil Eye struggles to make a strong impression
| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 29, 2020
Horror tale about curse from the past; language, violence.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 28, 2020
There's more anticipation and tension when listening to an unanswered dial tone than is present in 'Evil Eye.'
| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 26, 2020
Unfortunately, culture and representation can't save Evil Eye from its hollow story.
| Original Score: 5/10 | Oct 24, 2020
Perhaps the least suspenseful or horrifying of the four Blumhouse titles, Evil Eye has the most interesting and culturally specific premise.
| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 23, 2020
A deeply familiar, anticlimactic stalker thriller that doesn't even deliver the goods when it comes to its final fight.
| Oct 21, 2020
This is the kind of material made for daytime soap operas.
| Original Score: C- | Oct 21, 2020