Collider has posted the trailer for the upcoming thriller Julia’s Eyes, which re-teams The Orphanage’s producer, Guillermo del Toro, and star, Belén Rueda.
Julia’s Eyes seems to take on the dark and haunting tone of the Orphanage while adding a faster pace to the proceedings. The film’s official synopsis is as follows:
Julia, a woman suffering from a degenerative sight disease, finds her twin sister Sara, who has already gone blind as a result of the same disease, hanged in the basement of her house. In spite of the fact that everything points to suicide, Julia decides to investigate what she intuitively feels is a murder case, entering a dark world that seems to hide a mysterious presence. As Julia begins to uncover the terrifying truth about her sister’s death, her sight deteriorates, until a series of unexplained deaths and disappearances cross her path.
The film will screen at the Toronto International Film Festival, where The Film Stage’s own Jordan Raup is currently covering. No release date has yet been established for the US.
Personally, I’m excited, as the trailer seems to allude to Audrey Hepburn crime thriller Wait Until Dark, a film whose climatic scene had me clawing at my couch. (If you haven’t seen Wait Until Dark it’s worth checking out for Alan Arkin alone. He’s beyond creepy bordering on terrifying.)
Are you looking forward to Julia’s Eyes?