The Killer Eye (1999)

Purely Joyful Movie!

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

The horror genre covers a wide spectrum, from truly scary movies like the original "Nightmare" to the self-aware films like "Scream" or "Urban Legends" to the legion of late-night movies so bad they're good, in a campy sort of way. "Killer Eye" isn't sure whether it's going for campy cool or a more straightforward horror label, and so is a bit uneven. The title eye is straight out of camp status, as are some of the plot setups. On the other hand, some of the actors are actually pretty good, and I would love to see them with a better script. The lead actress in particular brings more depth to the role than one expects in a genre movie. I'd love to see her tackle better material.

The Killer Eye, this movie... wow. I'm almost speechless and yet, watch me ramble. The killer eye is sorta like if i was directing an episode of the real world, what i would make it. Seven strangers and a really misunderstood eye from the ninth dimension...blah blah. Point is, one of the room mates in this awesome apartment is a mad scientist. He decided to use this male prostitute in his experiment. He makes eye drops, Hold on. Everything i'm about to say after this point i swear to god is the truth. I didn't just get stabbed by the purple knife of insanity. OK, that said... this doctor has eye drops that open portals to the eighth dimension. i'm pretty sure its the eighth dimension, well some dimension with way to many dimensions for its own good. The kid dies, they toss his body, his eye gets possessed/replaced/whatever by an entity from said dimension and escapes from the dead kid's skull. all pretty normal so far. The eye grows up and gets big and awesome like any bad prop monster should. Now, whoever wrote the title for this movie had no idea what he movie was about. The monster just wanted to touch girls and have sex. The "naughty eye" would have been more accurate or maybe "eye on spring break". whatever. The jerk humans decide thiseye doesn't deserve to make out their hot chicks so they decide to be jerk clowns and kill it. The eye, who simply fights for his right to party, attacks back. Some meat heads die and the eye gets sent back toits own dimension. By the way, its own dimension looks exactly like the back of a dollar bill except with eye swarms. Pyramid and everything. This movie proves that no matter how much a disembodied Eyeball/ambassador from another dimension acts like us we will still try and kill it because of our fear of sloppy seconds and things that float around minding their own business.

This movie is BAD in just about every department....acting, special effects, dialogue, the whole premise seems to have come from some cheesy/sleazy comic book dimension. All of this is not to say that it's not entertaining. The "intended" humorous moments fall with a thud, but don't worry....the biggest and best laughs here are the unintentional ones. Connoisseurs of bad cinema will have a field day with "The Killer Eye," even though at only 68 minutes, it seems to be stretching it's material pretty thin. If "MST3K" was still around, this would be a prime candidate for their snide and satirical barbs.

We happened upon the killer eye at the local video store and boy am I glad it was for sale. My roommate bought this piece of classic cheesy horror for like $3. Thats beside the point, this movie is funny and quite awesome. I consider myself a connoisseur of cheesy films and I'm glad I watched this one. Bad effects, pointless nudity, a guy that reminds us of Beetlejuice or Brad Pitt from 12 monkeys because of his voice and how weird he is. I liked it. It's bad but Bad=Good, sometimes.