I'd rather be blind

Gin gwai (The eye)

(2002)

First saw this on an M4, and I'm glad to report that my initial assessment was accurate: for eighty minutes or so, this is an exceptionally good example of the atmospheric creepie genre, and then suddenly in the final reel it lurches into Hiroshima/Dresden/Trang Bang apocalypse territory. Pang Brothers, as they are credited (Oxide Pang Chun and Danny Pang) direct Lee Sin-Je, utterly convincing as a young woman, blind since age two, who after corneal transplants sees not only dead people but the mouthless Grim Reaper himself. The only low mark I would give the film is for the completely unnecessary love story.

NB: don't confuse this either with its two sequels or the English-language remake (starring Jessica Alba, fer crissakes).