Review: See No Evil
In short: crapola. The worst kind of crapola, because it had the potential to not be crapola. The camera work was excellent, as was the grainy atmosphere. The film boasted some halfway decent actors, and some inventive deaths. But the premise was so horribly, unbelievably awful, it ruined the film before it had a chance.
Here is the Premise of Doom: Eight 36-year-old teenage juvie delinquents are enlisted in a community service program to clean up an old, fire-gutted hotel that will eventually become a homeless shelter. Sounds okay so far, but…even though the hotel is only a short drive away, the criminals are supposed to stay there day AND night for three days, even though several of them have violent tendencies and escape plans. The hotel is a nasty, grime-encrusted roach-infested nightmare, yet nobody–including the two chaperones–object. What the hell?
And it gets worse from here, with plot hole after plot hole, and an array of decisions that exist for no other reason other to Start Getting People Killed. I’m all for killing people, but come on! Just because it’s a horror movie, it doesn’t have to be devoid of common sense!
It’s really too bad that the rind surrounding this watermelon is rotten, because there is some sweet juicy pulp. A gigantic killer who doesn’t even need a weapon; he uses his long, sharp fingernail to scoop out eyeballs…while the victim is still alive! Awesome! The Last Surviving Person(s) is/are different than you’d expect, and the deaths are entertaining, especially one that ends with delicious (literally) irony.
Why couldn’t they have put in the one extra hour of work to make a decent script? Oh well. If you like your movies red, then rent the DVD. Otherwise, do something truly useful, and stay home and polish your severed head collection.
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