This Indonesian horror movie seems to have been highly inspired by American supernatural thriller The Sixth Sense by Shyamlan with a bit of twists and turns here and there. So, in place of Cole, a kind of gifted child who can see and also connect to the dead world, we have here a small girl Abel, who can see the dead, but is too scared to talk to them. Abel thus keeps her fears intact and remains psychologically affected till her elder sister Alia decides to help her out by approaching Mrs. Windu, a spiritual healer, who assists Alia in helping Alia's already half opened third eye become completely active so that Alia would be able to understand Abel's condition. So, now instead of only Abel facing the dead people, we have her elder sister who too begins her not so pleasant experiences with the dead. The difference between the two movies i. e. The Sixth Sense and The Third Eye is in terms of how the narrative progresses with the unusual gift of these gifted characters. Abel and Alia get to know that the house they have currently occupied was of the family which was brutally killed by the family's own gardener and now the entire family needs revenge. Both the girls get tormented by these spirits till Alia's body is possessed by these vengeful spirits and eventually succeed in killing the gardener responsible for their death. Should the movie end now? No, not yet. Though the gardener is killed, the vengeful family wishes to have a human body and though Windu with her spiritual power gets Alia back to her human form, Abel is taken to spirit world by the dead! When will our torment end along with that of the sisters'? It does, but not so soon. It appears that Alia's boyfriend is also a dead youth( remember Malcolm Crowe ( Bruce Willis) ?), who is a kind spirit. Alia, in order to save her sister and get her back to human world travels with her dead boyfriend to the "other world" and Hurrah! viewers should be relieved now because "All's well that ends well".
Overall the movie is not bad, but seems to have been handled not so deftly by the director.
Review of The 3rd Eye
