See No Evil (Widescreen Edition)
by Gregory Dark
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Actor: Christina Vidal, Glenn Jacobs, Michael J. Pagan, Samantha Noble, Steven VidlerDirector: Gregory Dark
Brand: LIONS GATE HOME ENT.
Producer: Jason Constantine
Producer: Jed Blaugrund
Producer: Joel Simon
Producer: John Sacchi
Producer: Matt Carroll
Producer: Peter Block
Writer: Dan Madigan
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 84 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-11-28
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Lions Gate
DVD Reviews of See No Evil (Widescreen Edition)
DVD Review: you can see it
Summary: 4 Stars
See No Evil stars WWE wrestler Kane, as you probably know (in fact, probably the only reason some of you are even bothering to check out the movie!)
I went in assuming it was going to be a complete joke with some of the worst B movie acting imaginable.
The movie is better than that.
Let's not go overboard and call it a classic though, haha. Certainly not any kind of reshape to the horror genre or anything. In fact the movie is basically like that "8 Movies to Die For" series. It would fit right in.
The one thing See No Evil succeeds at, and the reason I'm giving it such a high grade, is that it contain lots and lots of violence, blood, and just outrageously gory scenes. Kane sure loves eyeballs, hehe.
Other than that, take a group of kids, put them all in one location, and kill them one by one over the course of an hour and a half. That's what you can expect.
WWE Film Productions has to be seen as somewhat of a disappointment. Had they bothered to produce some exceptional quality movies instead of the low budget variety, many people might take WWE wrestling more seriously. As it is, the kind of movies they are making are just not up to the standards of great. I already feel kind of guilty giving See No Evil 4 stars out of 5, but it's exciting to watch at least.
DVD Review: Cockroach Sex?? No, Please NO!
Summary: 1 Stars
I am ashamed to admit I saw this movie, It is advertized as: Young teens from a correctional facility, terrorized buy mad slasher..First of all these Teens were more like in their 20's Early thirties..They are totally completely repulsive characters, that you cant wait for the next one to be done in...You feel no sympthy, or bonding with the characters. They are rude crude hardboiled, stab you in the back type personalities. The first few minutes of this trash begins with a very promising scene and realy grabs your attention, but that was only the first few minutes, after that, push the Stop Button and seek elswhere for a better movie becaue they dont get as bad as this one....OH, I frogot if your paying attention, there is abrief scene of to large Cockroaches having Sexual Intercourse...Palllleeezz No!DVD Review: Entertaining slasher flick.
Summary: 3 Stars
See No Evil is a solid slasher flick, it's main problem is that it plays it too safe and doesn't take risks or innovate anywhere. The plot is fine, surprisingly better than a lot of slasher flicks these days, but it's nothing creative or noteworthy. The acting is spectacular or anything, but it's better than most horror movies that have come out around this time. The movie is pretty gory, the villain has a certain "liking" for eyeballs. Some of the kills are pretty brutal, which should keep slasher fans pleased. It's an entertaining slasher flick, no more and no less.DVD Review: Slasher flick that takes no chances at all.
Summary: 2 Stars
See No Evil (Gregory Dark, 2006)
That such a thing as "WWE Films" exists is pretty mind-numbing. I had somehow managed to miss that this company, obviously an outlet for films starring professional wrestlers, existed, despite their first two movies having gotten a good bit of publicity (The Rundown and Walking Tall, both starring Dwayne Johnson). However, when See No Evil rolled around, starring a wrestler less known to movie buffs who are not also wrestling fans, the WWE Films logo was a lot more prominent in the advertising. And the idea filled with with something akin to... excitement? Yes, it's true, when I was just a little high-school critic, I used to go see professional wrestling at not-quite-kosher "arenas" in Pittsburgh. I've always kind of liked the theatricality of the thing, though it's gotten way out of hand in recent years. And, I mean, come on, these guys really are actors, albeit more athletic than most. How bad can such a thing really be, especially when you hire porn's most notorious director, Greg Dark (who also directed Britney Spears videos--hmm, same thing, pretty much), to do a horror flick for you?
I lay the blame for the abject failure that is See No Evil neither at the feet of Mr. "Let Me Tell Ya 'bout White Chicks" Dark nor those of Glen "Kane" Jacobs, who does an entirely credible job as the serial killer haunting the abandoned hotel. No, the credit for the abject failure that is See No Evil goes entirely to first-time screenwriter Dan Madigan, who is either all too familiar with slasher films and decided not to change a single trope, or is in no way familiar with slasher films, and thinks that he came up with all those tropes on his own (and to be fair, the reason they're now so clich? is because, when people were coming up with them thirty years ago, they were, in fact, pretty damn cool). Either way, the end result is the same; excepting technology improvements, this is a slasher film that could have been made in the late seventies. And actually, given the surfeit of recent remakes of horror films that first came out in the late seventies, this one kind of fits right in, except it's an "original" (I use the term loosely) screenplay.
Plot: eight teenagers, two overseers, one serial killer, one abandoned hotel. Do you really need to know any more? There's a lot of teenager-stalking, and the inevitable plot twist, and a bunch of "here's how the killer got this way" flash-back-story that might have been interesting were it not right out of the serial-killing-101 handbook. Really, had there been one deviation from the norm, one slight twist on the usual formula, I probably would have loved this movie. As it stands, however, it's just more of the same in a market that's already supersaturated with more of the same; why bother? **
DVD Review: Unable to watch because of Region Difference
Summary: 1 Stars
Why wasn't this DVD listed as being unavailable to watch in Australia? Surely Amazon should advise whether DVDs are not viewable in the country where the purchase comes from.
Description of See No Evil (Widescreen Edition)
Seven feet tall. Four hundred pounds. A rusty steel plate screwed into his skull and razor-sharp fingernails that pluck out his victims' eyes. Reclusive psychopath Jacob Goodnight is holed up in the long-abandoned and rotting Blackwell Hotel, alone with his nightmares until eight petty criminals show up for community service duty along with the cop who put a bullet in Jacob's head four years ago. When one of their own is kidnapped by the killer and her fate uncertain, the remaining lawbreakers must fight this indestructible force of nature who has a violent score to settle.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
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