See No Evil
2/4
Starring: Kane, Christina Vidal, Luke Pegler, Samantha Noble, Steven Vidler
Rated R for Strong Gruesome Violence and Gore Throughout, Language, Sexual Content and Some Drug Use
There's really not much that differentiates "See No Evil" from any other slasher movie. Sure the actors are different, as is the killer's m.o., but that's pretty much it. A group of stupid characters do stupid things and pay a grisly price for it. People who venture into this movie will get what they paid for. Pity it isn't better...
In this movie, a group of juvenile delinquents are a part of a new program. In exchanged for getting a month off their sentences, they'll spend a weekend cleaning up the Blackwell Hotel. Naturally, none of the teen's (who have various criminal records...not that the film really puts their "talents" to good use). They do what everyone does in a slasher movie: pair up for hot encounters and get picked off one by one.
This time, the killer is Jacob Goodnight (Kane), a serial killer who was caught by Williams (Vidler) four years ago. Jacob, as it turns out, has a love for eyes. When he kills someone, he'll dig it out and put it in a jar. That's certainly a unique characteristic of a serial killer. And getting the obvious out of the way, Zooey Deschanel does not have a cameo (provided there wouldn't be any "indie for the sake of being indie" pretentiousness, that could only have helped things).
It goes without saying that the acting is lousy. The only people who seem to have any talent are Luke Pegler, who plays the requisite bad boy, and surprisingly Kane. Kane doesn't say much (in fact, he only says three words in the whole movie), but he has an expressive face, which director Gregory Dark is usually successful at highlighting. Surprisingly, he doesn't have a lot of screen presence for someone who is nearly 7 feet tall and built like a tank.
Dark's only concern in directing this movie is visual flair. The film looks like a comic book come to life; sort of like "Saw" meets "Sin City." The film is atmospheric, I'll give it that, and it has some intense moments. But the plot is paper thin and is full of holes that are apparent even while it's unspooling (I get that there are secret passages, but Jacob seems to be able to teleport to places around the hotel). Not that anyone goes to a movie like this for story, though, right?
Starring: Kane, Christina Vidal, Luke Pegler, Samantha Noble, Steven Vidler
Rated R for Strong Gruesome Violence and Gore Throughout, Language, Sexual Content and Some Drug Use
There's really not much that differentiates "See No Evil" from any other slasher movie. Sure the actors are different, as is the killer's m.o., but that's pretty much it. A group of stupid characters do stupid things and pay a grisly price for it. People who venture into this movie will get what they paid for. Pity it isn't better...
In this movie, a group of juvenile delinquents are a part of a new program. In exchanged for getting a month off their sentences, they'll spend a weekend cleaning up the Blackwell Hotel. Naturally, none of the teen's (who have various criminal records...not that the film really puts their "talents" to good use). They do what everyone does in a slasher movie: pair up for hot encounters and get picked off one by one.
This time, the killer is Jacob Goodnight (Kane), a serial killer who was caught by Williams (Vidler) four years ago. Jacob, as it turns out, has a love for eyes. When he kills someone, he'll dig it out and put it in a jar. That's certainly a unique characteristic of a serial killer. And getting the obvious out of the way, Zooey Deschanel does not have a cameo (provided there wouldn't be any "indie for the sake of being indie" pretentiousness, that could only have helped things).
It goes without saying that the acting is lousy. The only people who seem to have any talent are Luke Pegler, who plays the requisite bad boy, and surprisingly Kane. Kane doesn't say much (in fact, he only says three words in the whole movie), but he has an expressive face, which director Gregory Dark is usually successful at highlighting. Surprisingly, he doesn't have a lot of screen presence for someone who is nearly 7 feet tall and built like a tank.
Dark's only concern in directing this movie is visual flair. The film looks like a comic book come to life; sort of like "Saw" meets "Sin City." The film is atmospheric, I'll give it that, and it has some intense moments. But the plot is paper thin and is full of holes that are apparent even while it's unspooling (I get that there are secret passages, but Jacob seems to be able to teleport to places around the hotel). Not that anyone goes to a movie like this for story, though, right?
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