Eye Without a Face

I just watched Eye without a face and it was unexpectedly really good. It's clearly inspired by Rear Window but not in a cheesy way. The actors were great and Charlie Clouser whose work I know from the saw movies did a great job with the music on this.

I recommend this movie to people who like psychological thrillers that are character based.

Seriously, it looks like a high school movie, done by kids. Nothing unique, very poor acting, sometimes it hurts the eye...

A shy young male recluse with a live-in male tenant finds relief in illegal all-day digital voyeurism. Eventually he suspects one of the beautiful young women he spies on of cannibalism. His gregarious actor tenant encourages him to come out of his shell, but that turns out to be the worst possible advice.

This might have been a much better movie had the film makers been allotted another half hour of running time and not felt obliged to wrap things up so precipitously. As it is, the film is nonetheless entertaining enough - thanks in large part to the protagonist's delectable objects of solicitude/desire. It makes no claim to be a cautionary tale, as voyeurism is its ultimate selling point.

Gimme a break, 3.5? At least solid 7. May be predictable, but still greatly executed!

Acting was great too, camera angles also.

Don't trust the 1 star reviews.

I wasn't expecting anything after first reading all the awful reviews, but gave it a whirl anyway.

Honestly, what I found was an intriguing premise for a story, but unfortunately, it's execution could have been substantially better.

A voyeristic young man spies on girls through their web cams, murders begin to happen and mystery insues. Sure. It could work. But it doesn't get there with a lot of finesse.

The first and most painful detail is the lead, Dakota Shapiro's portrayal of Henry. Henry mumbles and walks around looking like he's 30 minutes into a heavy dose of heroin at all times. Really irritating at first. Was this on purpose? Don't know. But he did kind of grow on me after 20 minutes.

Next is Eric (Luke Cook), who plays Henry's roommate. Eric's from Australia and is a struggling actor. He's also the most annoying person you could ever share a house with. I wanted to punch him in the face straight off.

The sound track sounds original, and all by itself, is quite good. However it's application is very heavy handed and even out of sync with some scenes.

Camera work is adequate, but painfully amateur in some scenes.

As far as the plot, I thought it had some original spins on some old themes, but again, very light production values didn't let it shine as good as it could have.