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Five Across the Eyes

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I heard good things about this movie on various horror forums so when there was a great deal on the dvd I jumped. As a previous reviewer mentioned, the beginning is unbearable. The lousy acting (if that's what you want to call it) and amateur camera work was beyond unbelievable. The girls were so annoying I wished there characters would hurry up and die. I seemed like the film was directed by ditsy high school girls who also decided to star in it. Yes that bad!!!
But I disagree with the same reviewer who said the film got better. For me it continued to be horrible in every aspect. I was truly baffled at how bad it was. I've come to the conclusion that those who gave this good reviews must be younger fans of the genre who have a much different view than us who are older.

I've rated this 1 star only because it wouldn't allow me to leave none.

I purchased this movie for less than $2 and am still upset about wasting my money. If you have the option of watching this movie or running your fingernails across a chalk board while chewing on aluminum foil...Go find a chalk board; it will at least be over with quicker. I can only assume that the folks that have rated this higher than one star are out for revenge...

Okay, so what type of film do we have here you ask? To be honest, we have a bunch of horror clichés, a few bad one liners, a lot of false performances, and a whole lot of unrealistic behavior by the characters. This film may have one of the coolest titles for a film but not all that much else. So what is this about and why is it so disappointing?

Well, it's the story of five girls, maybe college but most likely high school (since one says she is the only one with a license), coming back from a football game. Making sure they are on the right road, they stop at some general store in the rural part of Tennessee known as the Eyes. Unfortunately while goofing around they have a fender bender with a parked SUV leading them to panic and flee the accident. And so the setup for our film begins.

Suddenly the film becomes a chase film. The girls land up fleeing but only getting caught by our mysterious driver of the SUV. After some various disregard for human dignity, this maniac begins to do both psychological but most certainly physical harm to our five protagonists. This includes some pretty vile stuff but nothing out of the ordinary for the most recent torture horror you'd see. But our movie has way too many ridiculous items to make it compelling.

To begin with, the screenplay is just plain awful. Our would-be killer/maniac is not much of a scare. To be honest, she's just a nut, seeming to scream things about how the girls are killing her baby and that they aren't anything more than loose woman. Had our killer been a sociopath seeking revenge for the accident or some other psychopathic reason, it would have been compelling, instead she's more of an over the top caricature.

Also we have the typical overplayed horror moments: the cellphones don't work, we run out of gas, we get a flat tire, even though our maniac has a shotgun it seems to be forgotton too often. Our protagonists are really just cartoons. We have a running joke about a cremated father to the point of ridiculous (yeah, sure, people carry cremated remains in cars to football games). The girls bodily fluids seems to be main plot points. Though the maniac has a gun, the girls don't seem to keep their distance (as if the shotgun won't be used). And the last line of the movie was so pathetic, it made me just shake my head in disgust for its typical b-movie preposterousness.

Okay, so the acting is pretty bad or over the top ridiculous, the music for the film is out of place and should be elimated for this type of film, and the camera and filming techniques are like your little cousin filming in the dark, and so you'd think that alone would be reason enough not to watch this film. But that's just the beginning since had the story been good and the protagonists weren't cartoons, we'd have had a decent film either way. As a result, I cannot really recommend much here. It isn't all that frightening, its not well done, and the characters are terribly written with too many artificial or silly moments.

For the DVD there are no extras and so that itself makes it even more of a disappointment. For the folks that are big fans and into the exploitation part of horror there is no nudity here. So this movie really seems to be for no one.

So far this film has gotten positive reviews from everyone. One amazon reviewer stated that this movie was only for the HARDCORE. I would love to know exactly what that means, but for now we will just stick with my take on it.

Horror fans like myself go into films and come out 70% of the time disappointed. Five Across Eyes is in that 70% category. The only reason this even gets a one star rating was because they had good gore ideas. An example being one of the girls becomes so scarred in the van they were driving in, that she had an accident. To try and stop the maniac who was running them off the road they threw the feces at her windshield. The biggest problem with that scene was it was really hard to understand what she threw because to many things were happening at once. The acting was atrocious. The camera work was like they were sitting on top of an earth quake the whole time they were filming. Honestly I have taped better home videos. And the script seemed like it was written by the five teenage girls in the van. Now because the film was written and directed by a no name it gets high appraise. If it were directed by someone of the highest caliber, it would instantly be thrown in garbage. Why is it that we base our opinion on who wrote, directed, and starred in it? We should base our opinions soley on how good the film was no matter who was responsible for making it.

Five Across Eyes starts out with five teenage girls driving home from a high school football game. Lo and behold they try to take a short cut on the back roads of Tennessee, which the locals call " The Eyes" only to get lost in the process. We didn't see that one coming did we? They stop at a gas station to get directions. When going to drive away they hit a parked SUV. Panicking about not wanting to get in trouble by the girl who was drivings parents they decided to drive away. A few minutes later the Suv with a psychotic woman behind the wheel starts trying to run the girls off the road. The things she does to the teens are revolting and very disturbing. We never find out why the woman is so crazy or where she comes from. Which I could have handle if the movie was good and made a little more sense.

A lot of the film does not add up in the end or make much sense. To point out any of those things would ruin it for those individuals who are willing to watch this. I highly recommend leaving this one on the shelf. The people who do end up watching it, GOOD LUCK.

Nonsense, this is the LEAST original piece of (dare I say) film-making I have ever had the misfortune to witness. I love Blair Witch and other films that have recently shaken up the horror genre, I'm all for that, I also hate pointless big budget re-makes and sequels like Halloween, (I mean if it aint broke etc) Hostel II & subsequent Saw II to V but this film has no place on dvd shelves, no merits whatsoever. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. I saw a 5 minute clip of someone driving down clinton road in new jersey in broad daylight and it was scarier than this piece of garbage, I cant believe it cost me a star to post this UGH..........................aaaaaaaand relaaaaaaax

A laborious attempt at a psycho stalker flick. This movie should have been called, "Five Across My Last D*&^ Nerve." While this movie may have been more reallistic as for how normal people would react if put in such a situation, all the screaming, crying and confusion made for one irritating movie. Jamie's crying in particular pounced on my last nerve. The scenery was also too limited with poor lighting. This movie obviously had no budget as everything happened either in or just outside the van . In such a case, with limited sets the personalities of the actors beomes more important. And since these five girls, who did a good acting job, were crying most of the time, their wasn't much room to really get to know/like them. There was also no rhyme or reason why the psycho was after them and no clue who the other dead people were in the psycho's vehicle. I do like the way that once they starting wacking the pshyco chick, they didn't stop wacking her the way most stupidly do in most horror flicks. The movie was just an exercise in terror. This movie easily could have been better. For instance, what if two young guys, about the girls age, had seen their lights and stopped to help , only to be injured by the pshyco. There could have been a romantic angle with at least one of the girls. This would have made the movie more interesting. Also, for all that torture and stalking, the killer did not kill any of the girls. Who cared about the dead people in the back of the psycho's vehicle? We did not even get to see their faces. Now what if the girls had run across those people at the store. At least their would have been some connection. If the idea was woman power, it took a long time to get to that point. And that point got lost in all the crying and confusion. Just like all the crying and confusion I am now exhibiting since I cannot get a refund at Wal-Mart.

This movie was not very good, but it deserves maybe a 1.5 After all, Ben Afflek and George Clooney movies have a patten on a -1- rating.

Other reviewers nailed it dead on. The box this DVD came in is superior to the content. If you like to watch movies made by someone that picked up a camera for the first time, zooms in and out, moves the camera around like they don't know where they are going, this one's for you. If you like a bunch of really stupid, whining, hysterical girls, this one's for you. Oh!, what a waste of money this one is. In my defense, I purchased this locally, and, to my detriment, I didn't read these reviews, never, never, open a movie until you read the reviews here on Amazon.

I have seen numerous bad horror films in my life, and I have to say there are many that are so bad they are great. This film is so bad it is bad. Bad acting in horror films can be overcome with good gore effects, an original idea, or just an over the top script, but this film had none of that.


Firstly the camera work was just horrendous. It was so muddy I could hardly see a darn thing. But the worst part was how jittery it was I couldn't focus on anything or anyone. Now when a film is shot in the first person I still my not like it but I can understand it. Films such as Blair Witch, Cloverfield, etc. are some examples, it worked for the story. But in this movie there is not one character with a video camera, so the shaking of the camera was beyond annoying, it gave me a major headache.

As far as the characters are concerned, where should I begin, firstly the screaming between the girls through out the film is constant. Each girl does not stop screaming at the other until the film ends or they die. There really is not much to say about this I recommend if one watches this film the do so with the mute button. Trust me you will not miss anything. The plot is that bad as well.

I do not have a problem with amateur film making. I have seen many amateur films I have enjoyed. This film however was below anything amateur at all. It was if bunch of kids took their dad's camcorder from 1993 and their mom's mini van and drove out into a rural area and just shot the whole film off the top of their heads.

This film should not have been made. To call it anything above garbage would be giving this film a complement.

Look promising, but failed horribly!!!! A killer that killed several before these girls! Lots of gunfire and not one death of the main characters!!!!!!!!!!! Pass on this film!!!! I'm a horror film fanatic and this movie just did not cut it at all!!! Good plot, bad writers, bad actors. Included scenes that made you go "What is going on?" "What is she doing?" and "Why am I watching this still?".

WOW! OK, First Its LOW budget which isn't so bad.I have seen good low budget films before but this was directed poorly. Second the girls were stupid they didn't fight back they had countless chances to get away or even kill the killer and they did nothing! DON NOT BUY THIS MOVIE! It makes me sad to see film wasted.

That is what this film was. A waste of money and time.