The Killer Eye

Year: 1998

Director: Richard Chasen

Written by: Benjamin Carr, Matthew Jason Walsh, Rolfe Kanefsky

Threat: Eye

Weapon of Choice: Light

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Rish Outfield's reviews
Oh wow, was this bad. Using the word "CRAP" is being so generous, I'll have to grab my thesaurus. Boy, I feel dirty just writing about this. The pace of this 'Thriller' constantly fluctuated between slow and slower, causing me to wonder if it had been edited in camera (if at all). Very bad. Very stupid. Very unfun. And that's the thing that's most wrong with this throwback to the awful B-movies of old--it's just no fun. There weren't any characters who resembled real human beings and the actors ranged from having no motivation at all to "Wait, what was my motivation again?" I didn't get a lot of it, from the 'Scientist' who was probably younger than me, to the odd guy who kept popping up and saying stupid things, to the gay drug addicts who lived (along with all four other people in this building) in an apartment without doors. Oh, and it was supposed to be FUNNY! Believe me, the only laughs associated with this movie were coming from the video store employee that saw we were checking it out. There was a VERY pretty girl in here (I'm talking beautiful), and she was not only wasted, not only un-likable, but every time she was in a scene, I wanted to shout "Get off the screen! On with the credits!" Ick. I hated The Killer Eye. I'd rate it up there with The Last Slumber Party, Jack-O, and Carnosaur.
What was with the stomach-rubbing, anyway?

The tyranist's thoughts
When Rish and I heard that Full Moon was branching out to create a new line of lurid horror films under the imprint Pulp Fantasy, we were excited. We have now seen the first entry in that line and I can honestly say that it probably should never have been released. The imprint has changed names from Pulp Fantasy to Cult Video, but that doesn't help much. I can't believe that Full Moon would sully their reputation with this kind of woefully inadequate film.
On to the film itself. I had so many problems with it that I will just hit the major ones. First, pace. This movie was obviously a 45 minute script extended to 90 minutes. It was abominably slow. Second, intelligence. Apparently they think we are idiots. Anything sexual in nature was implied to the audience by a little belly rubbing. There is a scene where I think the guy is supposed to be masturbating, but he just sits there rubbing his hand on his stomach. The eye is oddly attracted to stomachs as well. There are far more intelligent ways to imply sex. Third, plot. There were so many little contrived instances and forgotten devices that I had to forget most of what I know about the way the world works to even half believe what was happening on screen. Fourth, the Eye. They could have made it a little more threatening. Instead they relied on something that was stupid and inadequate, plus when you do finally see the 8th dimension it is a poorly done crayon drawing. Terrible. There is more, but you probably don't need to know. Suffice it to say that I am going to need some serious persuading before I ever rent a film under a Full Moon imprint again. I still like Full Moon, but their offshoots are probably all junk.

Total Skulls: 29

Sequel
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Rips off earlier film
Horror film showing on TV/in theater in movie skull Creepozoids
Future celebrity appears
Former celebrity appears
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MTV Editing
OTS skull
Girl unnecessarily gets naked
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Death associated with sex
Unfulfilled promise of nudity
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Phone lines are cut
Someone investigates a strange noise
Someone runs up stairs instead of going out front door skull
Camera is the killer skull
Victims cower in front of a window/door
Victim locks self in with killer
Victim running from killer inexplicably falls
Toilet stall scene
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Car stalls or won't start
Cat jumps out
Fake scare skull
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Stupid discovery of corpse
Dream sequence
No one believes only witness skull
Crazy, drunk, old man knows the truth
Music detracts from scene
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What the hell? skullskull
x years ago . . .
Dark and stormy night skull
Killer doesn't stay dead
Killer wears a mask
Killer is in closet
Killer is in car with victim
Villain is more sympathetic than heroes
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Beheading
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Excessive gore
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Virgin survives
Geek/Nerd survives
Little kid lamely survives
Dog/Pet miraculously survives
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"It was all a dream" ending
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