In Eastern cultures, ghosts and spiritual presences are treated in a very different way to the Western world. And as a result the directors of the upcoming supernatural thriller “The Eye” were forced to tweak the film a little to become a little more “out-there.” In the movie, Alba plays a blind classical musician who receives a cornea transplant in the hopes that she will one day be able to see. After the procedure however, she quickly begins to have terrifying visions that will lead her to uncover the shocking facts surrounding the donors death. "It's much more of an Eastern way, and part of the culture, I think, of approaching ghosts," Alba told SciFi Wire. "It's not so far-fetched for ghosts to be part of the consciousness. In Western culture, people think ghosts and anything paranormal is crazy and you're nuts and there's no way. And so I think that's the big difference between the two. It wasn't so outlandish in the original. And in ours, it's nuts." French directors David Moreau and Xavier Palud have already made similar comments, insisting that the challenge for them was to make the film less of a ghost story without loosing any of the thriller elements. And Alba was impressed with the entire process and hoped that they would bring their previous horror experience to the project. "They did a movie in France called ‘Ils,’ and it virtually had no dialogue and [was] quite simple, and it was captivating and terrifying. And you're, like, gripping the seat from beginning to end, and you're just watching these two people in a house being chased. And the fact that they could do that much and still hold your attention with no words, I thought, was great. And I wanted them to infuse that into this. I mean, my main goal, yes, it's a very sort of sophisticated horror movie in that she's blind, she's an accomplished classical musician. It has all these things. She's psychologically going crazy, but it needed to be scary at the end of the day. And that was, like, every day it was like, 'Is it scary? Is this going to work?' And that was what I think they brought to it, making sure that it was scary." “The Eye” is released Feb. 1.