Amaurosis

For at least half of it, it was a genuinely eerie, uncanny film...very flawed, but for the things it gets right, worth a look.

So while the "Wait Until Dark"-like suspense of the film's climax feels a little rote, that's OK, because the foggy depiction of a troubled marriage is plenty disturbing.

The film lurches into conventional horror-thriller territory as it progresses, though there are interesting moments ...

A drama of upper-middle-class menace that can't quite bring itself to be a full-on slasher movie, this has a few too many clichés but offers some creepiness and decent performances.

What The Unseen lacks is Roeg's economy... The performances are all good though, and the sterile modernity of both the Shields' and Paul's respective domiciles suits these peculiarly alienated people who, unseen, haunt each other's homes.

A committed central performance from Jasmine Hyde can't quite save this half-baked thriller that matches jarring tonal leaps and narrative ineptitude with unfortunate echoes of superior films.

On the whole, Amaurosis is a uniquely painful experience whose emotional trauma lingers even after it's reached its end.

Aided by inspired performers, The Unseen is a gripping and intelligent, Hitchcock inspired thriller.

The treatment of Amaurosis is beautiful, I fell in love with the interior spaces of the couples home and the lake cottage... Jasmine Hyde was both convincing and captivating as the grieving mother trying to move forward with her life.

The Unseen is an impressive exercise in sleight of hand and emotional drama. Sinyor ramps up the suspense as he keeps the audience guessing until the bitter end.