Director: Guillem Morales
Cast: Belén Rueda, Lluís Homar, Pablo Derqui
Certificate: 15
Trailer

When it comes to horror, it's what you don't see that truly freaks you out. So things are pretty terrifying for Julia (Rueda), whose eyesight is slowly degenerating. Not least because she's just found her already-blind sister hanging from a rope in the basement.

As she investigates her sister's death and mysterious boyfriend, things get darker and darker, until eventually they disappear altogether. And that's when Guillem Morales really gets things going.

For those easily scared, the very words "Guillermo Del Toro Presents" make your skin crawl. Mostly with excitement. The new video for the latest in Del Toro's presentational line, Julia's Eyes, will make them very happy. And scared.

Directed by Guillem Morales, Julia's Eyes stars Belen Rueda, who was also leading lady in Juan Antonio Bayona's The Orphanage. Judging from the promo trailer, either Del Toro knows that woman can work those chills, or he's just really good at picking directors who share his twisted brainwaves.

Rueda plays Julia and her twin sister, Sara. When Sara dies, Julia decides it's mysterious enough to warrant an investigation. But Sara was blind, and as Julia's eyes degenerate from the same condition, she begins to see more in the murky darkness that surrounded Sara before her suspicious death.

Not your usual audience-focussed teaser, this promotional video takes you a good three-quarters through the movie's jolts, so be warned of some serious spoilerage. On the other hand, it also makes Julia's Eyes look like another excellent horror movie from Del Toro's production team. Not that we're surprised by that. It does say Del Toro on the tin.

Julia's Eyes premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival next month, so we may well get it at the LFF. You can catch the promo over at Collider, or read on for the full video.

Ok, so that headline doesn't make much sense. But director Mark Pellington has indeed signed on to call the shots on New Line's remake of The Orphanage. And the very idea of doing that - announced last year - still takes the 1 2 3. Sure, Guillermo Del Toro is overseeing the translation of the superb (and sad) Spanish shocker, but do we really need to remake it at all?

Del Toro is also co-writing with Larry Fessenden, who will be looking to take Juan Antonio Bayona's tale of a mother missing her lost son in a haunted orphanage and make it scary for all us English-speaking folk. Most of whom would have read the subtitles on the first one anyway - except for Variety, who seem to have misunderstood the plot somewhat. Hopefully Fessenden hasn't, and will include the slow counting hide and seek game, along with the subtle emotional current that flowed through the whole thing.

Still, the really scary part? After helming The Mothman Prophecies and Arlington Road, Mark Pellington went on to direct U2 3D. If that has any relevance to this remake, I'll knock the 1, 2, 3 out of all of them.