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DVD See No Evil (Widescreen Edition)
Produced by World Wrestling Entertainment mogul Vince McMahon, See No Evil a standard-issue death-fest designed for maximum gross-out appeal, and in that sense it delivers the goods with crushed heads, multiple eye-gougings, throat-rippings and other grisly fates that gore fans will want to discover for themselves. If your idea of a good time is watching a mangy dog urinate into the vacant eye socket of a corpse, this is just the movie for you! In an attempt to create a new horror icon like Freddy Krueger or Jason Voorhees, former porno director Gregory Dark and less-than-stellar screenwriter Dan Madigan have dreamed up a routine plot that's hardly original, but deviously addictive to anyone who digs this kind of stuff: Eight troubled and not-very-bright teens, fresh out of a detention center, are given a second chance when they're taken to the decrepit, filthy Blackwell Hotel and told to clean the place up so it can be turned into a homeless shelter. What they don't know is that the hotel hides a secret, axe-wielding resident named Jacob Goodnight (played by WWE superstar Glen "Kane" Jacobs) who's got a knack for plucking the eyeballs from his hapless and ill-fated victims. He's basically an evil kid in the hulking body of a wrestler (call it type-casting, if you will), and See No Evil is more sick than scary as Jacob does his handiwork, which includes the rather hilarious and grimly ironic dispatch of an animal rights activist, to name just one item in the movie's smorgasbord of splatter. At a brisk 85 minutes, the movie's over before you can work up any genuine terror. Still, a sequel seems likely (even if it's straight-to-video), and devoted horror fans will want to check it out.--Jeff Shannon
I enjoyed this movie. There are a few things that I would have added or changed. But all in all a good movie.
Not Really Great: But Could Have Been
I pushed the fact I know Kane out of the way, and viewed this film in the same manner I would any other. The photography, special effects, computer graphics, and general look was excellent. What hurt everything, the film was too fast-paced and short (only 84 minutes). The film was supposed to be created in the 70s-style slasher-film genre, but didn't come across that way for the reason they didn't have the stylized techniques used today, which brought a more crude eeriness to them (Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1974, which too was 84 minutes). So, when modern artistic effects are used, it simply demands more time, because the viewer wants to absorb the feel of what they are seeing. In the end, you have a horror film with no suspense and not enough time.
For me, I don't find Kane (Glen Jacobs, a name-play for the character Jacob Goodnight) that scary, but a lovable big guy. His wrestling cohort The Undertaker (Mark Callaway) has a more unfriendly persona and would have played the part much better. Nevertheless, the bottom-line is that See no Evil will be a favorite for WWE fans, but for everyone else is a dud. Which is a shame in that the film could have been much more (even with the same storyline) given another 30 minutes, with time to set-up more suspense which equals better horror.
IS KINDA CHEZZY,BUT IS OK IN SOME PARTS
This flick,I liked the graphic seens & bit gore, But scrip & camera shots,was real fast pasting & corny!! Not bad killing seens , but scrip and cast was real AWFUL!!! Acting was worst of all!!!
That kind of str8 to DVD flick, just rental worth, nothing more!!! C+
With its brisk 83-minute running time, An American Haunting is compact enough to be recommended as an occasionally spooky sampling of historical horror. Based on Brent Monahan's novel The Bell Witch: An American Haunting, which in turn was inspired by the only known case (from 1818-20) in which the U.S. government officially acknowledged a death by supernatural forces, writer-director Courtney Solomon's film is a well-crafted 19th-century case study involving Tennessee land-owner John Bell (Donald Sutherland), his worried wife Lucy (Sissy Spacek), and the terrifying abuse of their daughter Betsy (Rachel Hurd-Wood) by a malicious poltergeist. Intensified by excessive sound effects and a nerve-jangling score, these nightly hauntings won't scare anyone who's seen The... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Courtney Solomon DVD Release Date: Released the 24 October 2006 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Pulse provides clear evidence that by the summer of 2006, the cycle of American remakes of Japanese horror films had reached its inevitable downturn. After peaking with the Ring and scoring a marginal success with The Grudge, the cycle was almost guaranteed to sink to the low-point of this unnecessary and mostly lackluster remake of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 2001 shocker. It benefits from a standard upgrade in CGI effects and doom-laden "bleak-chic" atmosphere, but it's almost completely devoid of suspense as a group of college students led by Mattie (played by Kristin Bell, TV's Veronica Mars) investigate the suicide of Mattie's boyfriend and discover a kind of wi-fi conduit that allows malevolent spirits to be transmitted from their afterlife to our world via the... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Jim Sonzero DVD Release Date: Released the 05 December 2006 Usually ships in 6 to 11 days
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In need of some good old-fashioned gore? You'll find it by the bucketload in the low-budget monsterfest Feast, which arrives on DVD in an even bloodier unrated edition. The winning entry in the third season of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon's reality series/talent contest Project Greenlight (Wes Craven is also on board as an advisor/producer), Feast is a wall-to-wall splatterthon that operates on an agreeably simple premise: A crew of motley characters is trapped in a remote location (in this case, a desert bar) by ravenous, flesh-eating monsters (here, a quartet of toothy and astoundingly fecund humanoids). The result? Lots of gruesome deaths and plenty of manic action, delivered with kinetic style by first-time feature director John Gulager. Not everything about... More Info about this DVD Director(s): John Gulager DVD Release Date: Released the 17 October 2006 Usually ships in 24 hours
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