Movie Review : The Eyes (눈동자)(2026)

The Eyes (눈동자) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Eyes (눈동자), a 2026 South Korean film directed by Yeom Ji-ho, a remake of the Spanish thriller Julia's Eyes. Shin Min-a plays Seo-jin, a photographer with a hereditary degenerative eye disease who is shattered by the sudden death of her twin sister, Seo-in, who had already lost her own sight and became a ceramic artist before dying. As Seo-jin investigates, an unseen presence closes in, twisting her sense of reality and pulling her into paranoia as her vision fades. 

That part really is the unsettling core of it — Hyeon-min isn't your typical black-and-white slasher villain. He's framed as someone who's genuinely unraveling, obsessive and dangerous, but the film keeps circling back to this warped idea that he sees himself as devoted, almost protective toward Seo-jin rather than as a threat. That gap between how he sees himself and what he's actually doing is what makes him scary — he's not hiding evil; he's convinced he's the good guy in his own story.

Worth watching to compare how the twist lands differently.