Review of My Little Eye (2002) by Jarod S — 09 May 2004

My Little Eye is one of those indie horror movies that starts whispers among the horror web pages, causing horror fans around the globe to involuntarily cream important clothing while surfing the web at work.

If the web pages love it so, yet it's not being released, it must be so controversial they just refuse to release it! At least that seems to be the thought process behind it. I'm not immune to the idea. I was craving House of 1K Corpses (which I like), Cabin Fever (which I think is hilarious), and May (the scariest movie I've seen in a while).

The hype of the first two (especially the first one) almost doomed the movies to fail. That and their reputation for love it or hate it style films didn't help.

And My Little Eye is no different. I read a review of it months or years ago hyping it up as a great new idea in horror films. It was going to be a shocking blend of horror/reality show and it screamed of being like the Blair Witch Project. Except the movie was hardly horrific and was so cleanly shot it looked like anything else being released. The horror relied on music strikes and false scares. The final killing didn't start until near the end of the movie, and just made NO SENSE to the rest of the film. The moral of the story seemed to be "Greed is the true enemy." or possibly "People are stupid.".

The movie was 96 minutes and felt like a 3 hour experiment of horror...the horror of being stuck in a theater (thankfully I wasn't). My biggest shock came when I realized the woman playing Charlie (the slut) was Cleo in Cleopatra 2525.

I wanted to like this movie. It sounded like a great idea when I read about it. Too bad the end result ended in complete and utter boredom.

The only upside was the second commentary was the "Company" track where they pretend to let you listen on the control room as the cameras were tracked. Still dull, but a fun idea.