The Eye

Directed by David Moreau, Xavier Palud, starring Jessica Alba, Alessandro Nivola

This is a Hollywood reworking of the 2002 horror-thriller by the Thai film-makers Danny and Oxide Pang, which itself owed much to John Carpenter's The Eyes of Laura Mars from 1978.

Jessica Alba plays a blind violinist who gets a cornea transplant and can see again but finds herself plagued with horrifying visions, courtesy of the previous, traumatized donor. This is due to something scientific called "cellular memory". It's the "peptides", explains Jessica's hunkily concerned doctor, Alessandro Nivola: "They connect the mind and body." Molecular biologists up and down the land will be intrigued to hear that. Reasonably entertaining.