updated: 26/06/2003
The Eye shadows, and ultimately tries to protect – but possibly destroys – Joanna (Ashley Judd) a seductive, shadowy master of disguises, a frenzied murderer, a lost orphan and an abject mystery whose rage is as fierce as her beauty.
This is a remake of the magical Mortelle Randonnée: it follows many aspects of the earlier film quite closely (eg the sequence of her looks) but somehow completely misreads the relationship between the Eye and the girl.
Ashley Judd goes through an effective range of looks but somehow you just don’t get to understand, or care about, either the Eye’s obsession with her or her fate. It’s just such a shame that Stephan Elliott studied Claude Miller’s movie so closely without learning anything of consequence.
Candace Neal was wig consultant and Ashlee Petersen was makeup consultant: Francine Gagnon was key makeup artist and Richard Hansen was the wig master.