A curse from the past reawakens in the present to torment a family in Evil Eye, a stylish suspense thriller with a supernatural edge. From her home in Delhi, India, proud parent Usha Khatri (Sarita Choudhury) is overjoyed when her daughter Pallavi (Sunita Mani) calls from New Orleans with news that she has met someone special. But Usha's happiness turns to fear when she notices strange similarities between Pallavi's wealthy boyfriend Sandeep (Omar Maskati) and a frightening f... (Full plot summary below)
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A curse from the past reawakens in the present to torment a family in Evil Eye, a stylish suspense thriller with a supernatural edge. From her home in Delhi, India, proud parent Usha Khatri (Sarita Choudhury) is overjoyed when her daughter Pallavi (Sunita Mani) calls from New Orleans with news that she has met someone special. But Usha's happiness turns to fear when she notices strange similarities between Pallavi's wealthy boyfriend Sandeep (Omar Maskati) and a frightening figure from her own past. Although her suspicions are dismissed by friends and family, the more Usha learns about this new man in her daughter's life, the more certain she becomes that an evil force from 30 years earlier has returned with a vengeance. When Pallavi announces her engagement to Sandeep, Usha is forced to confront a terrifying question: How do you protect the ones you love when the thing you fear most won't stay dead?
Leave your thoughts about Evil Eye.
| The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThe standout element of Evil Eye, however, is a riveting star turn from veteran Sarita Choudhury as a superstitious mother whose concern for her daughter spirals into a violent nightmare as past lives pierce the present. |
| The New York TimesGlenn KennyChoudhury is excellent here as a fraught matriarch — as good as she was as a young rebel three decades back. And Maskati’s performance is a slippery mix of suave and menacing, which helps sell the farthest-fetched elements of this story. |
| IndieWireKate ErblandEvil Eye packs plenty of compelling cultural specificity inside its frames, it never attempts to dig any deeper into the wider world of that stuff that would scare anyone. |
| EmpireAl HornerA small but neatly formed horror oddity that prises suspense out of a familiar parental worry: is the person my child has fallen in love with who they say they are? |
| RogerEbert.comNick AllenToxic behavior is eternal, and Evil Eye sincerely depicts both those who do not recognize it, and those who are all too familiar with it. |
| Slant MagazineChuck BowenEvil Eye is a feast of timidly undeveloped raw material. |
| The A.V. ClubA.A. DowdThere’s a faint, unfortunate whiff of Tyler Perry melodrama to the deadly dull Evil Eye. |
| SlashfilmChris EvangelistaEvil Eye deserves acknowledgment for taking a supernatural approach that involves cultures beyond Western trappings (there are countless horror movies that use American-centric Catholicism as their guide, for instance), but that’s about the only positive thing I can say here. |
| The GuardianPhil HoadWith scant visual bite, perhaps it should’ve been called Evil Ear. |
| User ReviewJLauAbusive guy killed by a girl in India, gets reincarnated, meets her daughter, tries to marry her, just to get close to the mum again but she's onto him. |
