Belen Rueda gives an energetic performance. Photo / Supplied
This Guillermo Del Toro-produced title is the latest in a wave of flicks giving Spanish horror films a good name for Gothic style and dark thrills.
Julia's Eyes certainly delivers quite the chilling creepfest with its story of the title character ( Rueda), who, suffering from failing eyesight investigates the
supposed suicide of her twin sister Sara (Rueda again) who had the same degener ative condition.
It certainly comes with gloomy suspense to spare and attempts to say something about love being, well, blind with the relationship between Julia and her psychologist husband Isaac (Homar).
He, while remaining supportive of his wife and her seemingly in curable condition, becomes increasingly frustrated by her need to prove Sara's death was murder despite all the evidence indicating it was self-inflicted.
During Julia's one-woman inves tigation director Morales has some fiendishly inventive ways of using Julia's ocular deficiencies - which become more pronounced when she is under stress - to rack up the sense of peril.
A scene where Julia finds herself the only sighted woman in a chang ing room of a gym which Sara attended is certainly memorable for the voyeuristic uneasiness it creates.
