The Sight is a 2000 horror television film starring Andrew McCarthy. It was written and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson, and aired on FX in the United States on October 29, 2000.
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Premise
Michael Lewis (Andrew McCarthy) is an American architect who is sent to Britain to refurbish an old London hotel, where he soon begins to have strange visions and frightening dreams.
Cast
Andrew McCarthy as Michael Lewis
Kevin Tighe as Jake
Amanda Redman as Detective Pryce
Jessica Oyelowo as Isobel
Michaela Dicker as Alice
Production
The film was written and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson as a pilot for an unsold weekly TV series. It was almost entirely filmed in London. The film is the first in which Anderson is credited with his middle initials, as he had recently joined the Writers Guild of America, to differentiate himself from Paul Thomas Anderson.
Anderson would recycle several ideas, including the connection Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, to his next film Resident Evil. Michaela Dicker, who appears as the ghost girl Alice, played the Red Queen in Resident Evil. Frequent collaborator Jason Isaacs appears as a cameo during the film's ending.
Reception
Kevin Lyons from the website "The EOFFTV Review" gave the film a mixed review writing: "It's not a great film by any stretch of the imagination but it's a more restrained and thoughtful work than the brain-dead action films that Anderson was about to make his own". Lyons concluded: "It's not the greatest ghost story ever made but it had potential and the final images suggest that the subsequent series was about to take off in more interesting directions.