Like the cliches that many horror movies are, it's beginning to feel like a cliche to say that a horror movie was filled with wasted potential. Unfortunately, it's so often true, and that's the case with My Little Eye.
The preview looked suitably creepy and promising but when I left the cinema I just felt like I'd been robbed. The set up is interesting due to the modern twist on a traditional horror movie cliche, but it just fails to deliver. I enjoyed the ambience that the movie had, very dark and always a little unsure about what was going to happen. But that's the problem, when something happens, it wasn't much at all. (*Spoilers*) The early attempts to shock failed and slowly killed the potential feeling of terror. And it feels that nothing really happened in the middle of the movie.
It does seem like the writers really didn't know where they were going with the plot - spending 3/4's of the movie convincing the audience it's a slasher movie then suddenly pulling the snuff movie card out didn't work. The snuff idea I thought was excellent and the scene where they realised this had me gripped, but they should've run with this idea earlier in the movie. I also hated the way the movie started 5 and a half months after they entered the house. Skip all that time, when they could've shown some relationship building and built some greater tension. Ineffective story telling. Finally, the killings in the end lacked imagination. They weren't gory or inventive enough, with the exception of the plastic bag - that was unexpected / shocking and quite graphic. The ending could've saved the movie somewhat, but didn't.
The acting was alright and it was good that they were unknowns (to me at least!). I mostly liked the way it was filmed, mostly, and I loved the effect of the glowing eyes in the dark. But on the whole it just lacked the scares and the nervous feeling of terror. So much more could've been done with this movie to make it so, and that's what seriously drags it down. A mostly unscary, sometimes tedious horror movie. You have to ask yourselves, is it worth your time?
The preview looked suitably creepy and promising but when I left the cinema I just felt like I'd been robbed. The set up is interesting due to the modern twist on a traditional horror movie cliche, but it just fails to deliver. I enjoyed the ambience that the movie had, very dark and always a little unsure about what was going to happen. But that's the problem, when something happens, it wasn't much at all. (*Spoilers*) The early attempts to shock failed and slowly killed the potential feeling of terror. And it feels that nothing really happened in the middle of the movie.
It does seem like the writers really didn't know where they were going with the plot - spending 3/4's of the movie convincing the audience it's a slasher movie then suddenly pulling the snuff movie card out didn't work. The snuff idea I thought was excellent and the scene where they realised this had me gripped, but they should've run with this idea earlier in the movie. I also hated the way the movie started 5 and a half months after they entered the house. Skip all that time, when they could've shown some relationship building and built some greater tension. Ineffective story telling. Finally, the killings in the end lacked imagination. They weren't gory or inventive enough, with the exception of the plastic bag - that was unexpected / shocking and quite graphic. The ending could've saved the movie somewhat, but didn't.
The acting was alright and it was good that they were unknowns (to me at least!). I mostly liked the way it was filmed, mostly, and I loved the effect of the glowing eyes in the dark. But on the whole it just lacked the scares and the nervous feeling of terror. So much more could've been done with this movie to make it so, and that's what seriously drags it down. A mostly unscary, sometimes tedious horror movie. You have to ask yourselves, is it worth your time?