Invisible eyes
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Invisible eyes |
| Original title | My little eye |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2002 |
| length | 90:50 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Marc Evans |
| script |
David Hilton James Watkins |
| production |
Jonathan Finn David Hilton Jane Villiers Alan Greenspan |
| music |
Flood Rob Kirwan Alan Moulder |
| camera | Hubert Taczanowski |
| cut | Mags Arnold |
| occupation | |
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Invisible Eyes is an American / British / French / Canadian thriller and horror film from 2002.
For a reality show allegedly published on the Internet, five young adults live for six months in a remote house monitored by video cameras. Only if all participants hold out to the end will there be a high cash bonus. The last week is already approaching when the situation begins to escalate. When the group realizes the real reason for their stay, it is already too late to avert their fatal fate.
action
After an online casting, five young adults (the three men Matt, Rex and Danny and the two women Emma and Charlie) accepted the challenge of living in a country house that was completely isolated from the environment for six months for a reality show. In the style of Big Brother , they are filmed by cameras around the clock in all rooms. As a reward, they will receive a sum of one million dollars if all participants without exception get through the six months without giving up.
The film action only begins a few days before the agreed deadline. After living together for several weeks without complications or difficulties, the people in charge of the show (called “company” in the film) seem to be consciously increasing the demands on the psyche of the participants. So the front door opens and slams open and shut in the wind. A bird gets caught in the attic and flies against the walls until it breaks its wings.
In a delivered package, there are not the long-awaited groceries, but only bricks and a letter addressed to Danny. In this letter, Danny learns of his grandfather's death and the funeral that is imminent in two days. Not only Danny, but the whole group comes under pressure as it must be assumed that this letter was only written as an excuse to get Danny to give up, with the consequence that the whole group would have to forego their reward.
Emma is also put under pressure in her psyche, because the bricks reminded her of an oath of vengeance directed at her from her childhood, especially when a little later the insulting “sick bitch” (sick bitch) in the icy window in her room ”Is scratched.
The next “grocery package” also frightens the participants: in addition to a bottle of champagne, the package also contains a pistol with five bullets. This time Rex feels uncomfortably transported back to childhood memories, he sees a connection to his father's death in this pistol.
When Emma wakes up the following morning, there is a blood-smeared ax lying in her bed. Participants cannot answer the question - did someone in the group allow her to joke or did someone else gain entry into the house? And how does the “company” know all the intimate details from each resident's past?
Next excitement the following evening. A stranger wants to gain access to the house or asks to be admitted. When the stranger enters the house, he is not, as initially feared, a “killer”, but the lost ski tourer Travis Patterson. The young athlete treats himself to a night in the room with Charlie. The very next day he leaves the property again, but he doesn't seem to have come very far, as Danny soon finds his backpack lying in the snow. New questions without answers: Why did the young man who pretended to be an Internet specialist knew nothing about the Internet project, why did he not notice the many cameras? Was it sent by the “company”? What fate happened to him outside, or should the abandoned backpack also just belong to the “game”?
Emma discovers her underwear in Danny's room and confronts him. However, Danny denies having stolen her underwear. In a previous scene in the film, it could already be seen that the visitor Travis was using his underwear during the night. The following morning, Charlie screams in panic when she discovers the lifeless body of Danny hanging on a rope.
Rex succeeds in establishing an internet connection with the help of the cell phone found in Travis' backpack. Thanks to his computer skills, he can call up the website with the live stream of the cameras installed in the house and clearly state that they have fallen victim to a snuff movie . The group discusses the immediate escape from the house, but Matt has a calming effect and persuades the group to stay in the house the last night.
Matt was the initiate of the "company" the whole time and is now progressing towards the completion of his "assignment". First he suffocates Charlie with a plastic bag, then he kills Rex with an ax. Emma escapes the house for the time being, followed by Matt, and runs straight into the arms of a policeman. He puts her in her car and goes into the house to look for Matt. The police uniform is also just a disguise, in the house the “client” and the initiated Matt meet for a conversation. But Matt is ultimately just a plaything of the "company" and is shot. Emma tried to escape from the car into the darkness of the night, but was shot. In the final scene Emma dies from the torture of her tormentor.
Reviews
- The internet platform video.de evaluates the film as a lesson in tension. The film is described as a skilled, truly terrifying mix of Big Brother and the Blair Witch Project . Highlighted are the shaky, grainy images, a disturbing soundtrack, minimal dialogue, and an omnipresent sense of threat. The inconsistencies of the script and the somewhat wooden dialogues are mentioned a little more critically .
- The Internet platform Fantasy Filmfest Archiv notes that the film leaves a lot of potential untapped and mentions as an example that the vagueness of the grainy images and the sparkling white, zombie-like eyes in the night shots are in themselves very creepy and dramatic Security could have been used even better.
- The internet platform celluloid-dreams rates the work of director Marc Ewans as an entertaining horror thriller with a brutal ending without any real criticism of the statement . It follows that he could have made more of the script.
Details about the film
- The film was shot in Canada in March / April 2001 with a budget of approximately $ 3 million.
- The film was shown for the first time on August 7, 2002 at the Locarno Film Festival on the Piazza Grande (outside the competition). In Canada, the premiere took place on September 7, 2002 at the Toronto Film Festival .
- The German DVD version was released on September 4, 2003 (Label: Universal Pictures Germany - EAN: 3259190529427). The DVD contains various bonus material, including four unpublished scenes (23:22), the sex scene is also expanded and shown from different angles (3:28), and the webcasting of the participants is also played in full (19:38) . The bonus material also contains a longer making-of (29:48), including audio commentaries (English with German subtitles) by director Marc Evans and producer Jon Finn.
- The music for the film was composed and produced by Flood , Rob Kirwan and Alan Moulder , and at the beginning of the credits they were summarized under the pseudonym Bias . The additional soundtrack is borrowed from several music tracks by various artists, such as Any Day Now ( Elbow ), Fuck The Pain Away ( Peaches ), Wasted Spaces ( Echoboy ) and Desolation Highway ( Bikini Atoll ).
Web links
- Little Eye in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Invisible eyes in the online film database
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- ↑ Film review ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on www.video.de
- ^ Film review at Fantasy Filmfest Archive
- ↑ Film review ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on celluloid-dreams.de
- ↑ Budget and shooting data on Internet Movie Database
- ↑ Filming locations on the Internet Movie Database , analogous to the credits
- ↑ Review of the Locarno Film Festival 2002 at www.artechock.de
- ↑ Premiere dates on Internet Movie Database
- ↑ View of the DVD version on OFDb-de - film database
- ↑ The detailed list of the film music used is listed in the film credits.
