This week, Jessica Alba stars in The Eye, a spooky tale of a blind woman who gets surgery to restore her sight -- and ends up seeing lots of creepy stuff. Thus, we at Rotten Tomatoes thought it would be a great time to peep some classic movies and scenes devoted to the ol peepers.

The eyes are the first physical feature people notice on each other, but in the movies, they're probably the last. Unless you're Kubrick and partly base your artistic legacy on visual motifs of the organ, the eyes get lost in a medium that relies on dialogue and an actor's mannerisms and tics to tell the story. With this list, we set out to catalogue the movies that make the most of these windows into our souls, which spiraled into a compendium of eye-gouging. Enjoy! (And if you're having a snack, consider finishing up right now.)

Minority Report (91 percent on the Tomatometer)
Being a fugitive is hard in 2054, especially when your eyes are being scanned at every corner. In a deliciously creepy scene, Officer John Anderton (Tom Cruise) finds a black market surgeon (played by a very shady Peter Stormare) willing to perform an eye transplant. There is a lovely Clockwork Orange-esque eye clamp to make viewers squirm. After the procedure, some seriously scary robot spiders crawl into the apartment, and force Anderton to open his new eyes before they've had a chance to heal. He wants to keep his old eyes, and later drops them and clumsily chases after them as they roll towards the sewer, catching director Steven Spielberg in a rare moment of mordant humor.

Un Chien Andalou (100 percent)
Perhaps it was the Pixies who best described the essential appeal of Un Chien Andalou in "Debaser":

"Got me a movie!
I want you to know!
Slicin' up eyeballs!
I want you to know!"

Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali's 1929 surrealist masterpiece is much more than that of course; Un Chien Andalou is probably the most famous and influential avant-garde film, a full-bore assault on reason and convention. However, one of the primary reasons for its lasting influence is its shocking, notorious opening scene, in which a man takes a razorblade to a woman's eye. (If it makes you feel any better, a cow's eye was used for the scene. And yes, the cow was dead.)

Kill Bill: Volume Two (85 percent)
The two volumes of Kill Bill demonstrate the many ways that the human body can be beaten, sliced, diced, and skewered -- not to mention buried alive. However, eyesight damage is also a significant risk in Quentin Tarantino's epic. Case in point: as Elle Driver, Daryl Hannah suffers not one, but two debilitating retinal injuries. The first is at the hands of martial arts master Pai Mei (who Driver later poisons) leaving her with a pretty awesome looking eye patch. And the second? We won't ruin it for you; just watch the clip below (unless you're squeamish, of course).

Zombi 2 (33 percent)
Aside from that sublime scene of a zombie boxing a shark at the bottom of the ocean, Lucio Fulci's Zombi 2 is largely remembered for one scene, occurring after the undead outbreak is in full swing. An unlucky lady gets zombie ambushed and her head is grabbed and guided sl-o-o-o-wly towards a protruding pointy stick. Rather graphic, profoundly campy, and about as gut-wrenching as when the evil security guard gets steamrolled in Austin Powers.

Thriller: A Cruel Picture
To get banned in the progressive stronghold of Sweden, it takes only a movie of rampant misogyny, misanthropy, violence, vengeance killings, hardcore sex, and cadaver misappropriation. Its clear influence on Kill Bill spurred renewed interest in the movie, and Thriller: A Cruel Picture (aka They Call Her One Eye) has emerged as a hallmark of exploitation cinema, not only for its extreme content but also director Bo Arne Vibenus's commitment to produce compelling angles and shots amidst the carnage. An actual recently deceased young woman was used for the film's literally eye-popping scene.