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A couple
of prison inmates are sent to an old
hotel to get in back in shape so that it can be
used as a shelter for homeless people. As a reward,
a month will be removed from their sentenced time
and it seems like a fair deal. What no one knows
is that the hotel isn't completely deserted, one
man still hasn't checked out and he does not feel
like having any visitors.
Ever since the trailer for this showed up I've
been sceptical towards this slasher. When bunches
of negative reviews started to surface on the
internet I started to reconsider even checking it
out. Well, I'm kind of glad that I decided to see
it anyway. See No Evil is by no means a clever
slasher flick and it probably should have gone
DTV if you ask me, but I still found myself
enjoying the hell out of this.
With one of the most predictable plots in slasher
history, See No Evil introduces us to a couple of
prison inmates of different genders (of course
because a slasher flick needs hot chicks right?).
None of them are even remotely likeable but still
you've figured out who will survive and who won't
within the first twenty minutes. Anyway, so our
villain, Kane, shows up and starts offing the hot
inmates one after one with his giant hook, only
to gouge their eyes out.
Now, the predictable plot is typical for a slasher
flick with this budget but what bothered me the
most was that Kane is one of the least scary
villains I've seen on the big screen ever. A beefy
wrestler with dirty clothes and a cheap contact
lense doesn't exactly indulge terror for me. Luckily,
Glen Jacobs (playing Kane) doesn't get any lines
because he sure wasn't cut out to be an actor.
I don't really get why slasher flicks these days
always have to be so "dirty". Sure, I like the
rawness but what's so wrong about a clean house?
Either way, See No Evil was a positive surprise
for me. I really didn't expect it to be as good
as it was. It won't win any awards and I will
recommend that you wait for the DVD but just like
Venom, this was a surprisingly decent slasher flick
even with all the clichés.
It's relatively gory actually. We get an arm
chopped off, eyes gouged out, a lot of hook action
and some more. A lot of the death scenes could
have been gorier though.
The children's chanting was pretty effective as
usually in horror movies. I actually though the
score was pretty decent and did what it was
intended to do.
Surprisingly decent slasher flick which has gotten
worse reviews than it really deserves. This is one
of those mindless slasher flicks where you just
have to be able to overlook some factors, but if
you're able to do that, you should definitely see
this one. It's much more entertaining than I had
expected it to be.
Review By: AnthroFred
