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See No Evil
Lions Gate Films

See No Evil reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 17 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
6.5 out of 10
based on 14 reviews
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MPAA RATING: R for strong gruesome violence and gore throughout, language, sexual content and some drug use

Starring Glen Jacobs (aka Kane), Christina Vidal, Michael J. Pagan, Tiffany Lamb, Samantha Noble, Matthew Okine, Cecily Polson, and Zoe Ventura

Seven feet tall. Four hundred pounds. A rusty steel plate screwed into his skull and razor-sharp fingernails that pluck out his victims' eyes. Reclusive psychopath Jacob Goodnight (Kane) is holed up in the long-abandoned and rotting Blackwell Hotel, alone with his nightmares until eight petty criminals show up for community service along with the cop who put a bullet in Jacob's head four years ago. (Lionsgate)


GENRE(S): Horror  
WRITTEN BY: Dan Madigan  
DIRECTED BY: Gregory Dark  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: November 28, 2006 
Theatrical: May 19, 2006 
RUNNING TIME: 100 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

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50
San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub
If you like gore, this is the movie for you.
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50
Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
The gilt-and-grime setting is eerily atmospheric, and screenwriter Dan Madigan has a nicely sick sense of humor.
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40
Variety Joe Leydon
Throats are ripped, heads are crushed and limbs are severed with brutal efficiency throughout See No Evil, but that's not nearly enough to dispel the sense of deja vu that pervades this generic slasher thriller.
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40
LA Weekly Chuck Wilson
The killer in this nasty yet taut slice-and-dice 'em horror flick is a collector of eyeballs, which he removes from his screaming victims with an efficient single swooping motion of his talon-like index finger. If that image makes you grin not cringe, then this movie's for you.
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38
Boston Globe Ty Burr
Generic teen dice-and-slice with interior design by way of ''Saw." The movie's tight and reasonably well shot, though, and there are flashes of nasty invention between the ritual guttings.
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30
The New York Times Jeannette Catsoulis
See No Evil devolves into an increasingly bloody and creative string of butcherings and impalings.
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30
Los Angeles Times Robert Abele
A flavorless snack, time filler until "Saw III" and "Hostel 2" are served up.
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25
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Hippolyte subsequently reinvented himself first as a director of baroque erotic thrillers and then as music-video maestro to pop tarts like Britney Spears, but stalk-and-slash horror -- for all its porn-movie rhythms -- appears to have defeated him.
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20
Film Threat Felix Vasques Jr.
A ridiculous messy Z grade film that should have been released straight to video.
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16
The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin
A punishingly awful slasher film with monosyllabic banter dreadful enough to make viewers yearn for the sophisticated repartee of earlier Dark efforts like "White Bunbusters."
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12
New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
Grim, bloody and relentless, without even a spark of fun or intelligence, Evil is barely good enough for late-night cable.
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0
New York Post V.A. Musetto
It's hard to believe that the distributors of See No Evil were so afraid of what critics would say about their movie that they refused to provide advance screenings. The movie's target viewers aren't the type who read reviews, if they read at all.
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0
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
As the killer, who plucks out his victims' eyeballs, Kane, the seven-foot bald WWE wrestler who's like a modern Tor Johnson, is so inept he's more cuddly than terrifying.
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0
Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
Unlike former porn auteur Gregory Dark's semenal 1985 cumshot opus "New Wave Hookers", this rote exercise in slasher-film tedium holds zero surprises and is about as arousing as Tracy Lords' singing career.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 6.5 (out of 10) based on 77 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Gwendolyn B. gave it a10:
The movie is simply horrific. [***SPOILER***] I was too scared to watch him just take their eyes out and put them in a jar. All of the actors and actresses did a wonderful job in this horror.

Michael L. gave it a2:
This movie was absolutely dreadful. It had it all: a mind-numbing plot, amateur actors/actresses, and over-the-top gore. This movie was definitely made for WWE fans...need I say more?

Cara R. gave it a10:
I love gorry movies and horror flicks, this is definetly my fave.

Kyle gave it a0:
The movie was point less. It was poorly made and it looked like they rushed to get it finished. They could have taken more time and made it a lot better and they needed a better plot line.

poppa duke gave it a0:
This movie was just like any other horror film where they're trapped in a locked house. It was too predictable and a basic boring plot. Very cheap actors also.

Anderson C. gave it a0:
100% pure bloody gore and nothing more than that...except maybe language, sexual content and drug use...this trashy film is no more than a test for the MPAA. it is nonsence, and it is stupid and very disturbing.

Alan L. gave it a10:
This film was a non-stop thrill ride with the actor Glen Jacobs a.k.a. Kane performing like a man who's been in the film business for as many years as Marlon Brando. The horrifying ending is truly something to behold and I suggest anyone out there who is into slasher-horrors (not just you WWE fans) rushes to the any theatre still showing this masterpiece.

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