The Killer Eye

The Killer Eye
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Directed by	David DeCoteau
Written by	Benjamin Carr
Starring	Dave Oren Ward Jacqueline Lovell
Production company	Full Moon Entertainment
Distributed by	The Kushner-Locke Company
Release date	1999 (1999)
Running time	72 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Killer Eye is a 1999 American science fiction horror film and monster movie, directed by David DeCoteau under the pseudonym of Richard Chasen. The film was released on January 18, 1999 through Full Moon Features and was followed by a 2011 sequel, Killer Eye: Halloween Haunt. It stars Jonathan Norman as a mad scientist that unwittingly unleashes a killer eyeball upon the world.

Plot

Dr. Jordan Grady hires a kid off the street, Japlo, to participate in an experiment. He administers special eye drops to Japlo in an attempt to allow him to see into the eighth dimension. During the test, Jordan is confronted by his wife Rita bout his neglect of her and while he is away, Japlo's eye is possessed by a creature from the eighth dimension, killing him. Rita goes next door to have sex with her neighbors, Joe and Tom, while Jordan finds Japlo's body. Jordan demands that his employee Morton help him, ruining Morton's date with his wife Jane. The building's lights go off due to a power outage, so the group turns on a backup generator to power lights in their efforts against the eye. The eye attacks Rita when she gets separated from the others. Jordan appears, revealing that he wants to help the eye because it is advanced and intelligent. Rita manages to escape before she can be consumed, but Tom and Bill are murdered by the eye. Morton is able to trap the eye and forces it to go back home, but Jordan follows it back to the eighth dimension. Rita, Morton, and Jane think they are safe, but Rita and Jane feel sudden abdominal pain, implying that they were impregnated by the eye and ending the film on a cliffhanger.

Cast

• Jacqueline Lovell as Rita Grady
• Jonathan Norman as Dr. Jordan Grady
• Nanette Bianchi as Jane
• Costas Koromilas as Morton
• Blake Adams as Creepy Bill (as Blake Bailey)
• Ryan Van Steenis as Japlo
• Dave Oren Ward as Tom
• Roland Martinez as Joe

Reception

The A.V. Club gave a mixed review, writing "for all of The Killer Eye's faults, hardly anyone other than Full Moon Features, the studio behind the Puppet Master and Subspecies series, knows how to churn out cut-rate monster movies these days. And if that's your pleasure, excessively creepy sex scenes aside, you might enjoy The Killer Eye." In his 2010 book 150 Movies You Should Die Before You See, author Steve Miller panned The Killer Eye and stated "Nothing works in this picture, from the poorly structured story to the sparsely decorated sets." A review in TV Guide wrote, "A ramshackle production even by the standards of Charles Band's low-rent Full Moon company. (...) The effects are tacky; the killer eye's world is represented by a single static painting; and the actors do what they can with their one-dimensional characters (which in Bailey's case involves a poor man's impression of Michael Keaton in 1988's Beetlejuice). Lovell and Bianchi look lovely in their copious nude scenes, which might seem gratuitous if everything else in Killer Eye weren't equally pointless."

External links

• The Killer Eye at IMDb