Oct 8, 2008

Five Across the Eyes (2006)


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Five girls do a hit and run in a parking lot. The driver of the hit vehicle catches up with them, and by gunpoint, makes them strip. She goes further by having one of them pee on her clothes, and then she takes the keys to their truck and leaves.

Traumatized by the event, the girls try to gain their composure and use the spare key to head home. Up the road, they run into her again, and are chased. Trying to deter her, they throw items out of the window, including a handful of crap, which hits the windshield, obstructs her vision, and she has to pull over. The girls stop too to see what happens, and when the crazy chick bum rushes the truck, they hit her, and then push her car into the nearby trees. But, like the energizer bunny, this bitch keeps coming back to terrorize and inflict pain and death. In the end, the girls (that are left) gang up on her, repeatedly stab her, and then set her on fire.

I walked away from this not knowing if I liked it, hated it, or was merely indifferent. One thing I can say is that there was over an hour of crying and screaming teenage girls which wore on me early on. There wasn’t any nudity, but glimpses of flesh that might satisfy any perv with a little imagination. The acting was so-so, the picture quality kept going from descent to camcorder quality, and the few scenes that seemed to be thrown in for mere exploitation, didn’t really add anything to the story. This film didn’t really add anything new to the genre either, but was decent enough to hold my attention. Then again, maybe that's just because I kept trying to figure out what hell the girls kept screaming about. If you like films that borderline kiddie softcore, a better film to watch is Don’t Deliver Us From Evil from Mondo Macabro. And, after feeling a little guilt, pop in Salo: 120 days of Sodom to top it off.

ACTING --2-- HUMOR --2--
BLOOD/GORE --2-- NUDITY --1--
OVERALL RATING

--2--

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