The 3rd Eye

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The 3rd Eye

2017 ‘Mata Batin’ Directed by Rocky Soraya

Believing Is Seeing

When her little sister claims she sees the dead, Alia consults a psychic, who opens her own eyes to the vengeful ghosts haunting their childhood home.

Jessica Mila Citra Prima Afdhal Yusman Anita Hara Epy Kusnandar Derry Drajat Bianca Hello Astrid Voke Victoria Shofia Shireen Denny Sumargo Asri Handayani Agus Julian Ladislao Daniel Leo Dea Rizkyana Reny Novita Hesti Lauder Alfi Fahri

Alternative Titles

El tercer ojo, Das dritte Auge, Le Troisième OEil, Zombie X, Il terzo occhio, Третий глаз, The Third Eye

thriller horror

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Review by Greg Dundee ★★

Two sisters face off against a family of vengeful spirits in this Indonesian horror featuring not one, but two leg severing scenes. An obvious and at times tedious reworking of such films as The Sixth Sense and Insidious, The 3rd Eye is a film that struggles with its own identity.
Following the death of their parents, sisters Alia and Abel travel back to their family home along with Alia’s boyfriend Devin. Abel, having been victim to an attack by a supernatural entity in the house at a young age, is traumatised by returning to the property, and once there is again visited by entities with seemingly evil intentions. Hoping to get some idea of what her sister is going through, skeptical…
Review by Stéphane Breton ★½ 2

Cheap pops, miserable special effects, the movie basically copies every horror scenes that has worked before and just rips them off in a really bad way. It's a living cliche supported by painfully average acting and a far too long run time. There is no surprises in this movie and you can see everything coming miles away. The dialogues are so cheesy it's ridiculous. The ending is not too horrible.
Review by Nathanael Gaines ★★

Eh... Not as spooky as it should be.
Review by Sudar Manto ★★ 2

Spoiler kali!
Ortu Alia baru tewas kecelakaan.
Omnya: kamu yg tabah ya. *ekspresi Om, notabene adik/kakak salah satu ortu Alia, ya datar aja. Kesannya saudaranya gakpapa.
Ini paling keren, jawaban Alia pas disuruh omnya tabah.
"Udah takdir. Udah jalannya."
😮
Seorang anak, baru ditinggal mati mendadak ortunya beberapa jam lalu, langsung tabah dan tawakal secara instan.

Kalo setan bisa nerbangin kasur, kenapa dia butuh tubuh manusia buat bunuh orang? Terbangin aja gunting rumputnya ke leher Mang Asep, tanpa bantuan Alia.
Emang begok nih penulis eh setan.
Terus bagaimana Mang Asep tahu kunci kombinasi brankas majikannya? Kurang semenit, kebuka itu brankas.
Aku suka dandanan setannya. Mata menyala. Anak setan main kereta mainan. Si emak motong wortel. Endingnya memang agak gory. Cuma…
Review by horrorfan ★★★ 1

It's a little hokey at times but I really enjoyed this Asian horror film that is somewhat of a mix between The Sixth Sense and Insidious, but not as good as either of those films.
Review by Porman Edward ★½ 3

Film bagus nih, ada twistnya soalnya. Twistnya ada 2 lagi gak cuma 1. Gak nyangka
Review by Amanda ★★★½

Hantunya rada dibuat kayak Zombi yaa, kenapa begitu?
Paling suka adegan di lorong merah, pasti itu pas shootingnya serem gak sih? Wkwkwk..
Oh iya ini rumahnya Alia, waktu itu udah digunain untuk shooting film Gangsing Tengkorak bener kan yaa?
Review by Andreas ★½

Strange mixture of 6th Sense, The Exorcist and Asian horror movies. It has moments were I thought this is quite entertaining only to realise seconds later that it’s not.
Review by briony ★★★★ 2

okay this was fucking badass, indonesian cinema is amazing i wanna cry
Review by Mathall ★★

A History of Horror 2019
Week 3 Indonesia
Mata Batin uses all the tropes of hunted house, ghosts and possession genres and put them all together, but good ingredients doesn't make a good meal.
There is no tension, every scene is so predictable. The special effects are terrible, it is time to stop using crappy cgi and return to use handmade special effects again.
A minute of silence for the most useless character ever made, Davin (until a so much hinted twist).
Review by Cristiano Carneiro ★½

A History of Horror 2019
Week 3 Indonesia
Se no passado o horror oriental foi um sopro de frescor no gênero, hoje ele parece estar se tornando tão pasteurizado quanto sua contraparte hollywoodiana.
The 3rd Eye é uma versão genérica de filmes muito melhores e mais memoráveis do que ele: O Sexto Sentido, The Eye, O Exorcista... Somente para citar alguns.
Rocky Soraya parece acreditar que basta investir pulando na frente da câmera para assustar o espectador. E tome música subindo do nada e vultos passando atrás dos personagens para criar "clima".
Embora a maquiagem dos espíritos esteja bem feita (ainda que não apresente nada de novo ao visual já visto em dezenas de produções) o filme também sofre com…
Review by Solid Gold ★★★

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Is this 3rd Eye malarkey in a ‘proper’ religion? Because if so, sign me up! If I’m going to believe in some faith-driven hocus-pocus then it might as well be a cool one.

Big Sister Alia is lucky that her younger sibling Abel doesn’t gloat at her when she ‘sees dead people’ for the first time. And shits her pants completely. “Ha! You believe me NOW don’t you, beeyatch!”
“Alia is possessed.” The rather dubiously qualified supernatural mentor, Bu Windu, with Understatement Of The Year.
Bu Windu not only has a gift for some mindbogglingly bizarre quotes, she must be the most unscrupulous medium in cinema history.
She agrees to do a forced 3rd eye opening for a new customer…

Recent reviews

Review by LonelyBob ★★★★

Watched on Netflix. A pretty good paranormal ghost 👻 film series from Indonesia! It’s got suspense, jump scares, and a bit of gore too.
Review by Grant Chapman ★★★½

NETFLIX
Original Indonesian Title "Mata Batin"
A good Indoneasian supernatural jortor film about a girl who can see strange things at home but nobody believes her, 12 yesrs later her parents die snd she moves back home and uses 'the third eye' to see supernatural world around them.
A good film and well made and very atmospheric.
Review by Blenks ★

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Weaving through the many narratives through this film, I was left with one important question:
How did that man get through customs without realising he was dead?
1. He would have had to print out his boarding pass. Dead hands can't print.
2. How did he not notice everyone was ignoring him when he tried to purchase his prawn mayonnaise sandwich at the airport?
3. And when the staff asked for his passport.
4. When he was on the plane, how did he manage to secure a seat. Most planes are full to the brim. Surely someone would have sat through him?
5. The trolley would have surely passed, and his request for a prawn mayonnaise sandwich would have fallen on deaf ears.
Possibly the most implausible part of the film.
Review by astronwut ½

Foram quase duas horas de uma tortura sem fim, sinceramente, poderia muito bem excluir 40 minutos desse filme e ainda sobraria partes irrelevantes.
Mesmo utilizando fórmulas prontas para o gênero, conseguiram se perder e produzir algo que pode ser resumido como medíocre. The 3rd Eye apresenta uma boa proposta inicial, porém os efeitos especiais fracos e as atuações nada satisfatórias, acabam com o universo criado e transformam o filme em algo que beira o cômico.
Review by Lauren ½

The special effects in this are so bad I had to keep pausing the film to laugh
Review by sgill7512 ½

Firstly, 1 hour and 50 minutes is way, way too long for a horror movie. An hour in there was no discernable plot and I had to give up.
Review by Putra Merdeka

Lah bersambung
Review by Dr_Salmorejo ½

Insidious + El sexto sentido, pero todo mal.
Review by Isadora Blanco

que merda é esta
Review by Jameson Lintelman ★★★

Pretty solid paranormal horror. Really enjoyed the design of the spirit world. The CGI was the only thing holding me back from calling the movie great; it was really distractingly bad. They should have gone fully practical since those effects looked great.
Review by Mia Slater ★★

A better title would have been great. It may just be a personal preference but numbers in a movie title make me cringe If it isn’t spelled out. For example the “Sixth Sense” doesn’t bother me, but had it been called the “6th Sense” it would have. Probably just me but curious if anyone agrees it’s an eyesore.
The 3rd Eye is a decent foreign paranormal flick. I completely understand the comparisons to Insidious and the Sixth Sense but I don’t know if I’d go so far as to call it a rip off. There are at least a handful of unique qualities about the 3rd Eye that I believe have gone unnoticed. It’s exciting and chaotic, predictable but easy…
Review by Nynuk2 ★★

Plus sympathique qu'escompté. Sans être un bon film d'horreur, ça se laisse bien regarder, sans ennui et sans trop de jump scares.

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