But the movie that is shaped around those familial links is deeply underwhelming, utterly devoid of conflict, and feels curiously lacking in cultural context. The result is a script that has some very recognizable daughter/mother and wife/husband relationships, especially for viewers of South Asian, Middle Eastern, or East Asian descent, and the connections feel authentic. The play was written for Amazon’s Audible service (which is also probably why the film is premiering on Prime Video and is part of Amazon’s partnership with Blumhouse), and Shekar adapts her own work for the screenplay. It is not good.Ī Blumhouse production (which you could very well compare thematically to Blumhouse’s 2020 version of The Invisible Man, entirely in that film’s favor), Evil Eye is a cinematic adaptation of Madhuri Shekar’s acclaimed same-named audio play. It is not satisfying! I do not quite understand how Evil Eye managed to do it, but this film put Sarita Choudhury and Sunita Mani in a room together and I could barely stop myself from dozing off. We are living in a time where words don’t seem to mean anything anymore, so maybe that is why Evil Eye, a movie of staggering inactivity and deeply dissatisfying anticlimax, is being marketed as a “horror, mystery, thriller.” This movie is none of those things.
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