A group of sentenced criminal young adults are sent to clean the Blackwell Hotel, and by doing so, they'll get some time taken of their sentences. But at the hotel, there's a psychopath named Jacob Goodnight hiding away in the massive building, but now coming forth to kill all those who has entered the Blackwell Hotel.
There has been a lot of fuzz surrounding See No Evil, but basically the movie's nothing more than your normal slasher type of flick. The story couldn't be less complicated; What you get are a number of young adults, criminals, who are chosen to clean a huge building called the Blackwell Hotel. What they do not know is that there's a psychopath inside the big mansion, something that they'll soon be aware of. With them in the house is a lady who put the project together, and also one cop to guard them, along with the old lady who runs the hotel.
Some of the characters are pretty likable while some are not. Funny thing though is that all the girls from prison are pretty hot, well, big surprise. What you get to see is wrestler Kane showing up every now and then, killing the people who has entered his home. He rips his victims eyes out (hence the title), and kills them in different kinds of ways, some that actually are pretty cool. The guy's strong like hell, and that added a nice touch to when he 'handled' his victims.
Early on, you don't get to see too much of Kane which was nice. He shows up every now and then, but never stays on screen for too long which added a little bit of mystery to his character. Later on though, the guy gets way to much screen time, and the little mystery that was there before goes down the drain. See No Evil had some potential to be a scary flick, especially for the fact that it deals with a huge hotel that is old and rugged which could create a certain atmosphere, something it did early on but later totally lost. The 'scares' are too predictable, and Kane himself couldn't be any less scary.
There's a background story to why the psychopath is doing what he does, and why he rips people's eyes out. Little by little, the viewer get to know more about his character, and this adds to that the guy's not scary at all, in fact, you might feel sympathy for him instead. Some of the killings are pretty cool, but some could've been a helluva lot more gruesome. Even if the movie's far from being a nice flick, it's still just not nasty enough to really satisfy. One thing it is though is entertaining, has a good pace with things happening all throughout the duration of the movie. I can't say that it was a great horror flick, but at least it's simple entertainment and the 85 minutes this movie lasted went by really quick.
See No Evil looks all right, has a few cool killing scenes, but is not the least bit scary. Still, it's entertaining and pretty fast-paced. The acting is decent, don't expect wonders, but at least it was totally bearable and never bad. Not a movie to take seriously, but works well as a modern slasher flick, and even if it has its fair share of problems, it still has some good entertainment value.
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ALTERNATIVE TITLE: Eye Scream Man
The Goodnight Man
MOVIE YEAR: 2006
DIRECTOR: Gregory Dark
WRITING CREDITS: Dan Madigan
GENRE: Horror
CAST: Glen Jacobs, Christina Vidal, Steven Vidler
COUNTRY: USA
RUNTIME: 85 min
RATING: 5/10
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