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This is a typical 80's type of Slasher film. You have your killer(Kane), you give him a little back story in the way of flashbacks. Torturous childhood with huge doses of religion. In this case he is raised to believe that he is the hand of God to murder the evil. Then you throw in a bunch of sex upped, drug using beautiful teens into a place they can not easily get out of. These are kids in lock up that are cleaning up an old hotel to get time off of their sentences. Let loose the killer and have everyone make incredible dumb. This is a quick 80 minute or so movie that is more into the gore than trying to be scary. They should have released an unrated version for maximum blood. Overall it is just okay. As a fan of the slasher film, this one would just be a middle of the road entry. It's nice to see a film with a decent budget give a try a the genre in a serious way without any wisecracking villans, but there are way too many faults in this movie to make me rate it any higher.

The WWE's Kane makes his movie debut as something he's relatively comfortable playing: a monster of a man intent on pulverizing his victims. Had writer Dan Madigan left out the backstory and just let gore fans feast on the actions of Jacob Goodnight (Kane), this film would have been a decent, above-average gore-fest. However, there always has to be a reason for a killer molded in the form of Goodnight to exact his wicked fury on his victims. In this case, Goodnight has been convinced by his mother that he's the "hand of God" and has to rid the world of the wicked, or at least pluck out their eyes. We learn of this in flashbacks, full of jittery camera work, terror-inducing angles, and a little bit of gore. These vignettes actually weigh the action of this flick down. Also, the unlikeable-yet-well-groomed juvenile delinquents that Goodnight feasts on are less than stellar actors and actresses. That's somewhat expected in a flick like this, but I kept getting the feeling that these kids were better suited for a SciFi Channel horror flick than a well-budgeted gore yarn such as "See No Evil."

The juvi-hall kids end up in the abandoned Blackwell Hotel, supposedly there to clean up the place in order to get a month knocked off of their respective sentences. When they get there, however, there's an angry, confused, seven foot tall, four hundred pound monster waiting for them. They spend the rest of the flick running from him, outwitting him, hiding from him, and, in most cases, ending up on the business end of a large hook or axe.

Many of the kills in this flick were executed rather well. There are a couple of original kills (my favorite involving an animal rights girl) and a few tried and true ones as well. Most of the gore is a mixture of CGI and old fashioned buckets of goo. They come off looking pretty good overall.

As stated before, the backstory and the victims weigh this flick down. It's only eighty-four minutes long, so Kane has to get to business pretty quickly. There are hints at "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (the Biel remake) and "Wolf Creek," but this flick isn't in the same league as either of those films. There is absolutely no suspense or really good scares to be found, just lots and lots of formulaic kills and a couple of excellent ones that any gorehound can appreciate. I also saw a nod to "Friday The 13th" in the plot of the flick.

The DVD has some nice extras, especially if you're a wrestling fan. There are some obvious WWE promos where popular wrestlers such as Chris Benoit and Triple H name their favorite parts of the film and just how much acting Kane really had to do in order to make Jacob Goodnight believable. There's the obligatory "Making Of" featurette, and a brief videography of Kane's time in the WWF/WWE as well.

I understand that a sequel might be in the works. With the backstory out of the way, perhaps Kane can get to business even sooner, and let the flick be nothing more than a study in gore appreciation.

Recommended to gore fans, but if you're looking for any suspense, find something else to watch.

When my co-worker showed me this film I was damn sure this would be garbage, which I don't mind since I can find enjoyment in most films.

Just imagine my surprise when I was treated to a fairly decent film. The gore effects and violence in the film are well done featuring some cringing moments. Kane is perfectly cast as the featured pyscho, Jacob Goodnight. He was not forced with a burden of needless dialogue, his presence carries his character through the film. Some of the other characters are not so well developed, though an unexpected character lasted the film when he/she was set up as a sure fire cannon fodder. I expected he/she to be the first kill based on their representation in film, but they become a hero in the film.

The film was certainly alot better than I expected, and definately better than some reviewers here are making it out to be. If you enjoy entertaining horror films, this will fill your need. Buy or rent, its up to you, I will likely buy it eventually.

I give all the credit for this movie to its directors. This low budget movie is well made. The suspense in the movie is well kept and unvoluntairily I was not getting up from the seat.

I call Kane a Psycho mercylessly killing people and taking away their eyes brutually. Those eye snatching senes are very brutual.

But the hero of the film is not powerful enough, he should have been able to kill Kane himself.

Overall this movie is very good.

I really enjoyed See No Evil for what it was, and the Cast they used. There were no big names, so you have to look past that. Glenn Jacobs (Kane) did really well for his first movie... I hear people saying well he only had one line, well I tell them that Jason Vorhees, didn't say anything, he just walked really slow behind people stalking them. This movie deserves its props. From beginning to end, you will want to sit there and see "what comes next" I can guarantee, atleast one noise or motion, from a jump to at "ow" will occur. For what they worked with, new Director, completely new cast, I will definately recommend seeing this before X-Men: The last stand *stupid movie by the way*.

Responding to a call, a cop investigate a house that turned out to be an earthly version of hell. Nearly killed, the cop puts a bullet into the monster of a serial killer. However, salvation comes with a price. The cop loses one of his hands.

4 years later, the cop is now a guard of a juvie detention center. 8 teens are taken to a condemned hotel. In exchange of a reduced sentence, the teens must clean up the hotel to have it presentable when it becomes a shelter.

Like the 10 little Indians, the teens start dying one by one. Killing them is Jacob Goodnight, the same killer that the cop thought he had killed 4 years earlier.

Overall, simple and predictable and spiced with gore. Regardless, it was ho-hum.

This movie was a nice return to old fashioned slashers. The kills were really slick, good amounts of gore, and obviously you can't go wrong with Kane flinging his hook on a chain around as your killer.
The characters are cliche, not fleshed out very much at all, but they're at least not entirely irritating like a lot of horror movie characters so that makes up for it.
There's a little twist at the end, but it wasn't that exciting and just left me saying "oh ok cool" rather than actually experiencing any shock. I'm glad it was there anyway, I guess, but it didn't make much of a difference.
Overall, it's a right down the middle slasher. Nothing to make it stand out as incredible, but it's decent and I'm glad I bought it anyway. It's a nice addition to a horror collection.

OK! So again because of all the bad reviews I had read I found myself putting a film off untill I could find it for cheap. Well I did find it for extra cheap but as I figured I should have went on my first instinct, wich was to get this the day it came out. Yes "SEE NO EVIL" does have it's flaws but it's not even close to as bad as some of the harsh reviewers made it out to be. I was expecting a mess of a story and a pathetic attempt at a slasher film by one of the richest meatheads that capitalism has to offer in(Vince McMahon) but what I got was a very fun & bloody slasher flick with some creative kills & chills. The actors were a bit annoying but you can't have it all now can ya! I myself would have done the ending(or should I say the pre-ending) differently 'cause let's just face it...the very final scene was great! I did enjoy this film alot, so much so that I hope they get creative eventually and find a way to bring Jacob Goodnight back for a couple of sequels. It is worthy of a franchise if they do things right and bring back director Gregory Dark who in my opinion did a good job with this one. Kane did do better than I expected and as long as his lines stay next to none I do see some potential here for another horror icon.

This movie See No Evil is a scary movie that has a lot of blood splatter in it. Kane stars in this movie as a well played murderer. Peaple get groomsely killed and get pain aflicted on them. Seeing people get killed this way makes it so realistic. Everyone is always on the edge of the seats. Scary movie fans would love this fantastic film.

While this probably isn't the greatest horror slasher you could find and watch, it's really cool to see the WWE's Kane in the title role. Not terribly graphic but not for the squimish either. And hey, the killer actually runs.