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Five Across the Eyes | 
 enlarge | Directors: Ryan Thiessen, Greg Swinson
Actors: Jennifer Barnett, Angela Brunda, Danielle Lilley, Sandra Paduch, Mia Yi
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Category: DVD
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 88274
Format: Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 95 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.7
MPN: ANBD16045D
UPC: 013131604597
EAN: 0013131604597
ASIN: B001AYWY8G
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
Release Date: September 30, 2008
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Studio: Starz/sphe Release Date: 09/23/2008
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 Fantastic film title but not much else here. November 4, 2008
Philip C. Perron (New England, USA)
Okay, so what type of film do we have here you ask? To be honest, we have a bunch of horror clichés, a few bad one liners, a lot of false performances, and a whole lot of unrealistic behavior by the characters. This film may have one of the coolest titles for a film but not all that much else. So what is this about and why is it so disappointing?
Well, it's the story of five girls, maybe college but most likely high school (since one says she is the only one with a license), coming back from a football game. Making sure they are on the right road, they stop at some general store in the rural part of Tennessee known as the Eyes. Unfortunately while goofing around they have a fender bender with a parked SUV leading them to panic and flee the accident. And so the setup for our film begins.
Suddenly the film becomes a chase film. The girls land up fleeing but only getting caught by our mysterious driver of the SUV. After some various disregard for human dignity, this maniac begins to do both psychological but most certainly physical harm to our five protagonists. This includes some pretty vile stuff but nothing out of the ordinary for the most recent torture horror you'd see. But our movie has way too many ridiculous items to make it compelling.
To begin with, the screenplay is just plain awful. Our would-be killer/maniac is not much of a scare. To be honest, she's just a nut, seeming to scream things about how the girls are killing her baby and that they aren't anything more than loose woman. Had our killer been a sociopath seeking revenge for the accident or some other psychopathic reason, it would have been compelling, instead she's more of an over the top caricature.
Also we have the typical overplayed horror moments: the cellphones don't work, we run out of gas, we get a flat tire, even though our maniac has a shotgun it seems to be forgotton too often. Our protagonists are really just cartoons. We have a running joke about a cremated father to the point of ridiculous (yeah, sure, people carry cremated remains in cars to football games). The girls bodily fluids seems to be main plot points. Though the maniac has a gun, the girls don't seem to keep their distance (as if the shotgun won't be used). And the last line of the movie was so pathetic, it made me just shake my head in disgust for its typical b-movie preposterousness.
Okay, so the acting is pretty bad or over the top ridiculous, the music for the film is out of place and should be elimated for this type of film, and the camera and filming techniques are like your little cousin filming in the dark, and so you'd think that alone would be reason enough not to watch this film. But that's just the beginning since had the story been good and the protagonists weren't cartoons, we'd have had a decent film either way. As a result, I cannot really recommend much here. It isn't all that frightening, its not well done, and the characters are terribly written with too many artificial or silly moments.
For the DVD there are no extras and so that itself makes it even more of a disappointment. For the folks that are big fans and into the exploitation part of horror there is no nudity here. So this movie really seems to be for no one.
 Shut Up, Shut Up, Shut Up Somebody Kill Somebody October 17, 2008
BO BO BOB (JACKSON, MS)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
A laborious attempt at a psycho stalker flick. While this movie may have been more reallistic as for how normal people would react if put in such a situation, all the screaming, crying and confusion made for one irritating movie. Jamie's crying in particular pounced on my last nerve. The scenery was also too limited with poor lighting. This movie obviously had no budget as everything happened either in or just outside the van . In such a case, with limited sets the personalities of the actors beomes more important. And since these five girls, who did a good acting job, were crying most of the time, their wasn't much room to really get to know/like them. There was also no rhyme or reason why the psycho was after them and no clue who the other dead people were in the psycho's vehicle. I do like the way that once they starting wacking the pshyco chick, they didn't stop wacking her the way most stupidly do in most horror flicks. The movie was just an exercise in terror. This movie easily could have been better. For instance, what if two young guys, about the girls age, had seen their lights and stopped to help , only to be injured by the pshyco. There could have been a romantic angle with at least one of the girls. This would have made the movie more interesting. Also, for all that torture and stalking, the killer did not kill any of the girls. Who cared about the dead people in the back of the psycho's vehicle? We did not even get to see their faces. Now what if the girls had run across those people at the store. At least their would have been some connection. If the idea was woman power, it took a long time to get to that point. And that point got lost in all the crying and confusion. Just like all the crying and confusion I am now exhibiting since I cannot get a refund at Wal-Mart.
This movie was not very good, but it deserves maybe a 1.5 After all, Ben Afflek and George Clooney movies have a patten on a -1- rating.
You'd need five across the face to stay awake for this October 13, 2008
Richard Ramirez (Houston, TX USA)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Look promising, but failed horribly!!!! A killer that killed several before these girls! Lots of gunfire and not one death of the main characters!!!!!!!!!!! Pass on this film!!!! I'm a horror film fanatic and this movie just did not cut it at all!!! Good plot, bad writers, bad actors. Included scenes that made you go "What is going on?" "What is she doing?" and "Why am I watching this still?".
 A Sick Ride October 7, 2008
Mr. Blonde (Denver, CO USA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
The budget for this film couldn't have been more than a months worth of pay from working a minimum wage job. Scenes go in and out of focus and it has the picture quality of a home video. On top of that the five girls that star in the film don't mesh together as real friends it seems, at least in the begining. Their acting is mostly tacky and the dialoug sounds extremely scripted. You may be wondering why I still gave Five Across The Eyes a 5 star rating. Well, because despite the flaws, this film explodes within the genre it was meant to live- Horror. Through the nauseating bounce of a hand-held camera, Five Across The Eyes shocks us with pure original horror. Since watching this movie I've become hooked on its ability to bring something new and interesting to the bland horror movie rut that Hollywood seems to be in currently. Unlike most movies meant to scare that I've seen recently this one didn't become forgotten in a blur of cheap $20 million budget horror pictures (Prom Night Remake), it still to this day stands out as a symbol for what it really is like to be shocked by a movie. The violence is original. The maniac stalking these girls is refreshing. It's just all around great to see a movie that breaks the formula for what is proven to work and dares to try something new. You will either hate it or love it, there is no in between on this one. Give it a try horror fans.
By very far..... October 5, 2008
Guy Campeau (Stoneham, Québec Canada)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
The worse movie that I have ever seen. How can someone can give this crap a four or five stars rating ?? A real mystery !
Really stupid movie, poor acting, five girls screaming and crying for an hour and a half. Honestly, I can make a better movie that this and I am sure everybody can do it also....
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