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See No Evil
Eight teens, one weekend,one serial killer
SLASHERS
Reviewed by jareprime

A group of county inmates are given a chance to shave some time off of their sentences by doing clean up work at the run-down Blackwell Hotel. Once inside the former grand structure, the inmates, their guard and their counselor are going to learn that something else lurks among the rats, roaches and filth, something large with a real bad attitude towards those he deems unclean. The hunt is on through the maze-like halls of the Hotel and the only ones to survive will be those that See No Evil!

The WWE pile-drives it's way into feature films with it's first major motion picture starring WWE superstar Kane as conflicted killer Jacob Goodnight and directed by Gregory Dark, half of the notorious adult filmmakers The Dark Brothers, you probably guess how this one is going to turn out, huh? Well smart ass, you may be wrong.

First off I doubt See No Evil is going to win any awards as the film is the standard hunter/prey slasher flick from start to finish, nothing new, nothing surprising, but that’s what I love about slasher movies. A big bad ass sum'bitch brutally beating the shit out of anyone he comes in contact with and this movie has that in spades my friends. As far as bad ass sum'bitches go, Kane has it down to a T and in a big way. Watching the big red machine open a can of whoop-ass on his fellow wrestlers is one thing, because most of his fellow ring-mates are the same size as the massive superstar, but when he begins to terrorize and torment average size men and women it is cranked up to the limit, I mean the guy is HUGE!

Watching Jacob Goodnight choke, pummel and swing a hook and chain as good as a cenobite was pure delight. Add to that a cast of supporting characters who you simply want to see dead, man that's like adding an extra cherry to the top of your sundae! I also hate to say this, but after watching Kane lumber and stalk his prey, I really couldn't help to think how the monster would look under a certain cracked hockey mask. No disrespect to the incredible Kane Hodder, but watching this flick I could just see Kane under the mask.

As I said above, the supporting cast are all terrible, I didn't like any of them and I don't think you were supposed to in any way. Using unknowns the film makers give you that classic feeling of "Ha Ha, they’re all going to die!" vibe. That being said, there is some skin to be seen and even a very bizarre jerk-off scene to sit through.

“What about the gore and violence, Prime?” you may be asking, well there is some extreme violence at times but the gore is a little low. The way Goodnight dispatches his victims is handled fairly well, I didn’t care for the ax or chain kills, I liked it best when Kane just grabbed them and physically just beat the shit out of them, not really original but damn violent. The gore only really flows in the final scene or two and will answer the question of why there are always flies buzzing around good old Jacobs person and there is also quite a nice scene involving a new kind of dog food that was pretty rough.

All and all See No evil was way better than I expected and I really enjoyed the movie, yes it's cliché and anyone who has watched more than one horror movie is going to be able to figure out what is going to happen next, but the flick is still fun and Kane may well be on his way to becoming a major horror presence.

6 of 10


See No Evil
Eight teens, one weekend,one serial killer
SLASHERS
Reviewed by Locus Delicti

First I'll just say that it's the thing we've all seen a million times - boy is terrorized as a child, boy grows up to be bizarre weapon-wielding maniac. The characters were all people we've seen before, too - the sassy Latina, the jerk who redeems himself, the misunderstood "goth" with "tattoos", the slut, the black guy. There's even an animal rights activist who seems ok at first but turns out to be a whiny bitch. She did get stuck in a trap only wild dogs could tear her away from, though.

There were some cheap thrills and some decent moments of gore. People in the audience were suitably disgusted by the eye removal. The acting was GOD AWFUL, except, oddly, for Kane, who somehow managed to hulk around and not seem like a mindless killing machine. I actually sort of felt bad for the guy. I suppose we shouldn't be surprised - pro wrestling is acting in large part, after all. So it may be worth seeing just to see him. As Prime points out, the supporting cast sucked rotten donkey balls.

Go see it for the fun, and for the blood. Don't see it for the characters.

5.5 out of 10 blonde ho-bags choking on a cell phone. (The extra .5 is for Kane)


See No Evil
Eight teens, one weekend,one serial killer
SLASHERS
Reviewed by Splatterscribe

Some fairly decent kills. Good eyeball gougings. Prime is absolutely correct about the way Kane swings that hook, and there's a really creative sequence where the bad guy gets his.

All for naught though. Routine. By the numbers. A carbon copy. Standard. Sensing a pattern here?

I wanted to like See No Evil more than I ultimately did, but I think the horror genre has moved past the days of this sort of cliched' slasher movie material. What bothers me isn't that they tried for a "build a better mousetrap" approach..it was that they built the same damned mousetrap! The only reason this ended up in theaters instead of being banished to the direct to video shelf was that WWE financed it.

see this only for the kills


(2006) Gregory Dark, Dan Madigan

Glen Jacobs .... Jacob Goodnight (as Kane)
Jason Chong .... News Reporter
Craig Horner .... Richie
Trent Huen .... Officer 2
Tiffany Lamb .... Hannah
Tim McDonald .... Officer 1
Penny McNamee .... Melissa
Samantha Noble .... Kira
Matthew Okine .... Officer 3
Michael J. Pagan .... Tye
Luke Pegler .... Michael
Cecily Polson .... Margaret
Corey Parker Robinson .... Blaine
Greg Skipper .... Bus Driver
Rachael Taylor .... Zoe
Zoe Ventura .... Eyeless Women
Christina Vidal .... Christine
Steven Vidler .... Williams
Michael Wilder .... Russell
Annalise Woods .... Young Girl


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