My Little Eye (2002) Online

One house. Five people. Six months. One million dollars. A reality show webcast offers five young people the opportunity to make money by staying in a house for six months with the only catch being that if any of them leave then none of them win anything. After some time in the house with loads of boredom, one of them gets a letter saying his grandfather has died. He wants to leave but nobody wants to make it that easy for him to blow all their money. When bricks get delivered instead of supplies and a stranger who happens by the house says he has never seen or even heard of their reality show, alarm bells start to ring.

When this came out I just assumed it was a slasher movie that decided to try and ride the wave of reality show popularity all the way to the box office. Even if that was the case, it didn't really work and this film didn't do a great deal of business in the UK – although respectable returns considering it was low budget anyway. The film takes a very "Blair Witch" approach to things by being pretty unnerving rather than out and out scary or gory. The director cleverly uses the angles and grainy appearance of Big Brother (night vision included) to invoke the feeling of the series but also to raise the tension. It is a bit of a gimmick but it does work because, despite it showing its budget, the cuts and the angels do raise tension.

The problem is that the plot is never as good as it should have been. It goes where you expect it to do and there isn't much more to it than that. The film could easily have been making a point about the exploitative nature of such reality shows, the type of people that go on them and the sort of things that we turn in to watch (lets be honest – the fights and the sex). It does these if you think about it but the delivery lacks the intelligence that the concept potentially had. It is a shame because this would have been better if it had had this commentary because it would have covered up for the lack of substance, plot and development of the film. The cast are fairly average which suits the reality TV feel of the film.

Overall then this is a film all about atmosphere and tension – well handled by director Evans. The concept offers commentary but the film delivers none or very little; what remains is a simple thriller in the low budget mould of Blair Witch. As such it works for the majority of the running time on atmosphere alone but the descent in the final 20 minutes didn't really work for me. An interesting film for this aspect but sadly lacking in things like commentary, substance, development and total worth.

It is reasonable to describe this movie as Big Brother done with the style of the Blair Witch Project, although it would be unfair to label this movie as a Blair Witch Project seeing as how it implies that every horror movie done in a `documentary/realism' style with unusual camera positions is an actual homage to that movie.

Set-up here is pretty simple: 5 people in a house. Must stay in house for six months. Cannot ever leave the house at night. If any one person leaves they all lose and do not get the one million dollars awaiting them at the end. Grand. However, surprise ahoy, things start going weird towards the end and they must begin to wonder: Who is paying to view them? Why are they bothered? And will any of them survive?

Problems with the movie abound. Firstly we've dull characters. Some are so dull they blend into one another and become hard to distinguish, which is rather unfortunate since we're meant to. Only one character - the paranoid cynic - had any `depth' to them and their role was way too obvious. Sorry you can't misdirect me like that, I've seen it before and done better. Secondly we've got the structure of the movie. The first two-thirds are a hit and miss affair with tension. The `jump' moments are too sparse, too unconnected. There's an atmosphere built up by them, which has dissipated too much before the next event. It doesn't create unease so much as a greater indifference towards the movie. The final third is too derivative of the `hack-and-slash' genre and adds nothing to it except for an ending, which I admittedly enjoyed.

It's not all bad though. There is the way the movie is done. It's viewed primarily through web cams. Thus we're treated to some interesting point-of-views and techniques as the cameras focus on the participants. There's a nice night-vision element where everyone is in green with eerily lit eyes. There're also some nice sounds via a white noise effect. Some found this grating, but I found it more effective in creating a sense of things being off kilter than the traditional orchestral effect. There's an ending which made me smile and, despite their scarcity, one or two relatively decent `jump' moments. The sense of it being just that bit different helps lift it out of forgettable mediocrity but it cannot elevate it to a description of being good. I think a 5.8/10 is about fair.

Why all the bad comments? I don't understand it. True, most low budget thrillers are terrible. Serial killer knock offs without big name movie stars usually depend on gore effects, not characters, to keep us interested in what's going to happen next. This movie, though, is a tightly wound little scare piece that takes its time developing the characters and building suspense. The actors are terrific, the camera work unique and unsettling, and the direction always seems on target. The movie's main gimmick reads like it's going to be glib and possibly stupid, but the actors, and the director's ability to maintain a mood of foreboding, quickly dismisses any possible derision. I bought it and recommend it to anyone looking for a good, creepy thriller.

Funnily enough, before the film they showed a trailer for the new HALLOWEEN flick (out in the UK in time for, well, you know ...); I heard a few people muttering that this seemed to have exactly the same plot as the film we were about to see (we'll gloss over KOLOBOS and BIG BROTHER.COM - THE MOVIE, shall we?).

MY LITTLE EYE has had some blistering reviews, and, unlike most genre efforts, has had a TV ad blitz, which is probably why the Sunday night screening I saw was way over 3/4 full.

As often seems to happen with these things I had invited a few friends who don't mind a few horror-lite morsels but would rather not step into the darkside. They thought they were in for fluff; as the movie progressed, and became darker and darker in tone, I realised I had made something of a mistake inviting them. "Whoops!", I thought, trying to avoid their ashen faces in the flickering light.

I don't want to give anything away, really, lest to say that the two movies that this reminded me of most were THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT and SESSION 9: they were all shot on video, and they all had an unrelenting bleakness and

an innate power to unnerve which distinguished them from the popcorn horrors of, say, SCREAM and the modern crop of audience pleasers (which I having nothing against, by the way).

The makers of MY LITTLE EYE use a dizzying array of discordant camera angles and white noise (and loud jarring sonic shards to unnerve its audience); it's the most inventive low budget genre film making I've seen since THE EVIL DEAD, and it doesn't seem overly contrived, or forced; the subject matter and set-up (the Big Brother'esque all seeing cameras constantly whirring, slipping in and out of focus) lend itself to it perfectly.



As the majority of reviews point out, this *is* scary stuff. It's unnerving; getting under your skin like THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE did. There is no comic relief what-so-ever. The film's all-pervading nihlism spreads - relentlessly - like an ever increasing black ink blot. To say it won't end well is not spoiling anything, really; it's clear from the opening scenes that we're on a one way journey downwards.

Essentially, stripped of all it's visual trickery and clever manipulation, it's a teen horror flick at core (a teen slasher movie at that), but it's a million miles away from genre films like URBAN LEGEND, and it's ilk.



MY LITTLE EYE (a British film made in Canada with American actors) is a gruelling hour and a half; it's endurance test horror. It's the kind of 'entertainment' (and I don't mean the inverted commas in a derogatory way, I just find it hard to equate this powerfully morbid film with that notion) which I never thought I'd see in the cinema again in this country. Judging by the total silence in the cinema, as the harrowing final shots faded, I doubt anyone else did either.

Real fans of the genre miss it at your peril!

Five strangers are brought together to take part in a reality web cast, the rules are simple; they must stay in an isolated house together for 6 months to receive the prize of $1 Million, if anyone of them leaves early they all lose.

When strange things begin to occur in the house, the group suspect that someone is trying to scare them out of the house; but perhaps there is more to it than meets the eye.

Marc Evans Directs a cast of relative unknowns through this quite fresh feeling chiller, and he manages to create a dark and creepy atmosphere that helps to build and sustain the tension in preparation for a fine climax.

OK, so its a fairly trashy and a little easy to predict at times; but My Little Eye still prevails as a pretty original piece of work, that provides a few shocks.

7/10

I was quite pleasantly surprised by MY LITTLE EYE. I had never heard of it or anything about it when I saw it so I really didn't know what to expect, but I definitely didn't expect to like it as much as I did.

The basic story: 5 kids in an isolated house in the snowy mountains in the middle-of-nowhere, have to stay there for 6 months to win $1 million for some internet "reality" program. All of their necessities are brought to them anonymously, and they have no idea where they are, and judging by the surroundings - wouldn't be able to go anywhere even if they did. The tension builds slowly as we meet up with the kids at the tail end of the 6 months. Weird things begin to come from their anonymous deliverers, and paranoia soon sets in among the cast-members.

MY LITTLE EYE is a pretty unique thriller, all of the action is shot from the surveillance cameras that are meant to monitor the cast members, giving all the shots a strange feel. Some of the shots done in "night-vision" are really weird and creepy. Add to this a really good twist ending and you have a very solid film. Definitely one to check out - 8.5 out of 10

Yes and No. I really like this whole concept of the reality show gone wrong – and a horror movie is always good in my book. But for all the bits I liked about the film, it didn't add up to a whole that I particularly liked. But yes there were some good bits.

The idea of people in a house being films raises all interesting possibilities about how people react when they're isolated, and how they would cope if people started dieing, or they had to start killing each other… I thought "house of 9" was really good because the behaviour of the characters was very interesting, when they realised their host wanted them to kill each other.

Here only one of the characters seems to have any idea that something dodgy is going on, and then when people start dieing its over so quickly, there isn't really time to watch the interactions of the people under stress and terror.

Some of the build up is good though – like the whole child that killed his parent's thing coming back. However I just didn't believe the rest of the plot. When the guy goes on the web; if there was nothing on the internet about this, then what was the internet site at the beginning which they applied through – surely that would still be on the web, and there would have been at least some information about the show… that it had been canned… that it had disappeared. However the idea that they were being watched in secret by some group of rich clients with the intent on watching them all die was pretty scary.

Anyway forget that, its ridiculous how this guy managed to wire a broken global satellite navigation system and get it to act as a modem to hook up to his computer. He also managed to try and hack into the website with some of the worlds most sophisticated hackers. I have a couple of questions here; why don't you send an email for help? Why don't you then email friends and family and find out if they know about the show? OR ASK THEM FOR HELP! And all this seemed to happen in a very short time span. I guess suspension of disbelief is required – but when its all about being a reality show gone wrong, which is meant to frighten with its reality type visuals… then when the plot is anything but, its just wrong. There's also this sequence about someone that visits, which just doesn't make any sense.

The first murder that we know is a murder is very shocking. But once the secret is out I was really not scared any more. I knew that each person was going to die in turn, it was just waiting for it to happen, and thinking, man, just escape… leave the house! As I say I like the concept, and there are some good ideas, and some bits that were a little bit scary. But for me the plot didn't really hang together, they didn't keep us guessing long enough on who the killer was, and they didn't get the people scared enough when they realised people were dieing. And man if I'd had email access I would have sent some emails – and called in the army to get me outta there!!!!

What a great idea: shooting a film using only web cams. I usually like to watch movies that aren't mainstream, and the concept of My Little Eye sure stands out.

The plot isn't that complicated; it focuses on five people trying to live in an old house in the middle of a forest. If they manage to stay there for six months without contacting the outside world, each of them wins 1.000.000$. If someone breaks the rules, everyone loses their million. The movie takes place in the final week of the competition, and suddenly, weird things start to happen. It seems that the contestants' pasts have come back haunting them. But as it usually is, some things aren't what they seem to be...

The cast of My Little Eye is great, since all of the few actors/actresses are pretty much 'non-famous' (for me at least), helping to create an illusion of an Big Brother-type of game, where ordinary people do stuff for money.

There is this certain tension throughout the movie, creating a disturbing feeling that 'something isn't right'. However, in my opinion this movie wasn't scary. I'd rather call this movie a thriller-, than a horror-movie.

Don't get me wrong, but the movie disappointed me a little. Everything in this movie was a bit pale. I admit, that the night-vision scenes were cool, but at the end of the movie you've definitely had enough of web cams.

Anyways... There are lots of much crappier movies than this, so if you consider yourself a voyeur or if you like Big Brother, you should give this movie a shot.

My Little Eye takes the premise of 'Big Brother' and warps it. Five 'contestants' are invited to stay in a house for six months but if any of them leave, they all lose the $1million on offer.

Where this film really works is in its use of sound and sudden shocks - early on a raven in the dark provides some truly 'jump out of your skin' moments, the rear channels working over time to engulf the viewer in a feeling of dread.

The film gets darker and darker in its tone as we begin to realise that what the contestants signed up for what very different to what they thought they had. Feelings of dread and hopelessness pervade the screen as we, along with the contestants begin to learn the truth behind the game and its very dark secrets.

Many words have been used to describe this classic fright-fest and in the case it seems wholly appropriate to use both 'Harrowing' and 'Disturbing' in this context. I went in expecting a frightening and upsetting horror yarn and that's precisely what I got.

Full marks to all involved - this is no easy ride and for all you horror fans out there bored of the glossy popcorn fodder of Scream and its ilk, this will be a welcome breath of fresh air.

Watch it - just not alone!

I was really looking forward to this, but Christ almighty, what a disappointment. The film promises a lot, but doesn't deliver a single scare. What it does deliver is patchy tension and a slasher climax. I kept hoping every step of the way, but the pace lagged just enough to let me dwell on the plot holes.

The start is good, with the 5 house inmates cleverly introduced through clips of their audition interviews. And the almost 6 months spent in the house is conveyed through a quick clockwise 1/4 screen split of various scenes. But then we're introduced to the everyday interaction of characters who are already tired of each other. The solution is to introduce an outsider and see what mayhem he can cause. But the 6th character is used just as a plot device, and all that ensues is a seduction scene and suggestions of an off-screen death. The plot is resolved by revealing the least likely character as a psychopath traitor. So what? In the very end the last victim was left alive in a cell - why? For the sequel?

The frequent loss of focus through the webcams is irritating, and the whirring camera-focus noises are done way too much. The night-vision effect, with glinting pupils, is overused; and Emma's gun-toting scene is a continuation of the Silence of the Lambs cellar sequence.

Charlie was sexy - whoopee! Emma was a Mia Farrow look-alike. The male actors didn't register.

Great concept. Just so irritating to have to carp and carp and ... hey, after 2 hours viewing I'm allowed to have a go. Maybe the Japanese will run with this concept and score with truly disturbing scenes.

This movie had none of the ingredients necessary to make a successful horror/thriller, it was weak from beginning to end, and was incapable of thrilling or shocking, when you take into account this is the point of such a movie you can see what the problem is. It's a film that lacks any humour whatsoever, and doesn't compensate with enough of the dark chills that you would expect from such a storyline. The complete implausibility of the story/plot ensures that you never forget you are watching a bunch of half-baked actors plying their trade. Their attempts bringing to life to a leaden script failed, it stunk and it sunk. Whatever you do avoid this one like the plague, if you do not heed my words, fine, I will only say "I told you so".

Why hadn't I ever heard of this film? "My Little Eye" begs to be seen. It's movies like this that make researching films on the internet all the worth while.

This is an atmospheric, creepy, and effective movie! The less said about this spookfest the better. It has a "Big Brother" (as in the TV show) element to it, except the contestants must stay in the house for 6 months without leaving (except to go out front), and some of the guests have secrets in their past that began to play out in front of them.

The filming, direction, and cinematography of "My Little Eye" are all superb. The angles, split screens, sound effects, and night vision cameras all serve to build up a tense but satisfying conclusion. Cant recommend this one enough if you like to be scared or freaked out.

A wonderful film to watch with the lights off and the volume cranked up.

Highly recommended!

This film tells the story of five people who agree to spend six months in a house in the middle of nowhere, in return they will get one million dollars. The catch is that no one will get paid if anyone leaves the house.

I confess that I only watched "My Little Eye" only for Bradley Cooper. I expected it to be a terrible film, but it turned out to be a pleasant surprise. The plot is captivating and thrilling, because the characters and the viewers don't know what is truly happening. Hence, I have no idea how the film will end. Every twist is a surprise, and keeps me guessing what is really happening! When the truth is revealed an hour into the film, I am completely captivated by the plot, and I can hardly catch my breath. I enjoyed watching it a lot!

My Little Eye is directed by Marc Evans, it's about five adults who agree to spend six months together in an isolated mansion in the hope of winning the $1million prize. The twist being that it's all being filmed for the internet and if just one of the house mates leaves? Then the task has failed. Pretty soon the house mates' resolve is tested as the mysterious "company" starts doing all they can to make the group implode…….

Riding in on the wave of Big Brother style reality shows and low budget documentary type films such as Blair Witch, My Little Eye is an unsettling and claustrophobic horror piece. The set up is perfect, an old dark house setting filled with darkened rooms and the whirring of cameras. Five unlikable characters (a reality TV staple it seems). And then there's us, the viewers. Observing as these five beings (three boys-two girls) are steadily tortured psychologically. We be voyeurs to edgy emotion as the group start to crack under duress, things from their pasts are used against them. And of course nothing is quite what it seems. Given the truly creepy first hour, the piece is not as scary as a whole as it could have been. But Evans utilises the cleverly conceived premise for a series of shocks and unease inducing sequences. The sound effects are jolting and the night time green tint moments are hugely effective. The cast are standard fare, but that's most likely the point of it all, in that we need wannabe stars instead of stars, and the finale has a nice bent to it that lifts it away from the film's it has took influence from. Good and creepy horror piece that has a terrific DVD release that further implicates us in the story. 7/10

I like horror films, I like thrillers, I like (well-made) slasher flicks. I feel I should establish this at the start of this comment/review. With that, here we go:

[Rant] It has been some considerable time since I have seen a film this morally repugnant, technically inept and benightedly unintelligent. I have just spent two of the most excruciatingly unenjoyable hours of my movie-going life watching what can most kindly be termed a pile of witless crap, not wanting to walk out for fear of offending the friends that my wife and I went to the cinema with.

I was quite frankly glad when the five central characters were dispatched in tediously unimaginative fashion, but was disappointed to note that no-one appeared to have done the decent thing and ensured that the director, cameraman and scriptwriter (now that's GOT to be an offence under the Trades Description Act) joined them in gory oblivion. If they'd asked, I'd have done it myself, only too happy to help.

This film is utterly devoid of any plot worth noticing (they have a plot device, but it's more guff than mcguffin). Characterisation is minimal, risible and banal. The script makes Conan the Barbarian sound like Citizen Kane. Their attempt to co-opt "Teh Intarweb" as a dramatic device is possible the only bright moment in the film as one of the characters converts his GPS receiver into a wireless modem and gets better page load times than I get with a 512kbps cable service. How dey do dat den? The film is poorly shot with abysmal wacky camera angles.

On another level, the films treatment of the female characters is actually downright nasty - and I'm not talking about Halloween-type scream queen stuff, it's just deeply unpleasant.

I don't even have much of an objection to dumb films, but this one doesn't even fall into the "so bad it's at least a good laugh" category.

All in all I can heartily recommend this film to anyone that I really don't like - but you guys here, do yourselves a favour and avoid this one.

This has been a cinematic health warning, thank you for your attention. /RANT]

When I was watching that movie at a Cinemark Multiplex, I just started thinking, what was the reason for showing it in the theaters. This movie has nothing special, there is no opportunity to show something that could support it at all. There are no moments of considerable unpredictability. The plot, about a "Reality show" of 5 young and not-interesting people, ask for a lock at the cinema, or most of the audience would like to spend this time in a more interesting situation, as eating French fries....I could say that it would be useful it made before the Blair Witch Project...the movie connections are so obvious that we can believe it is a parody..But we can believe it is an ode to human futility and dumbness.

Pace is an important feature of any film and this one lacks it. The plot is not original and easy to see through. Hark back to "Driller Killer" and "The Texas chainsaw massacre" and throw in "Big Brother" then you have this film. I wanted to walk out after the first 30 mins. Other semi-good and good films about for you to not waste your time on this one.

This film promised to be so good. I had heard rave reviews on the radio, and decided to go and see it for myself. I was torn between seeing this and seeing One Hour Photo, but went for this film. What a mistake. The film looked promising, set in a Big Brother style house, with unknown actors in the lead roles. It was a huge let down. The film which promised to be the most scary film this year was not. I have been more afraid of Mr Staypuff than of this film. We were subjected to 2 hours of boredom, watching a couple of people doing sweet FA, and getting scared of something that didn't seem worth being scared about.

We did not see any action until 20 minutes before the end of the film, and even then, it did not carry itself off properly, and failed to be the least bit scary or suspenseful.

I appreciate some people will like it, but not for me, and not for the 20 odd other people who were at the performance, as I noticed 4 of them leave and the rest looked bored to death at the end.

A promising film, which turned out to disappoint

The most amazing thing about "My Little Eye" is that 171 viewers have already commented on it. Not bad for a weak little movie that received minimal distribution. Even more amazing when you realize anyone with a vacant house and a few aspiring actor buddies could have shot this thing over a long weekend. If you are thinking about watching this movie you could do worse and you could do better. It is just slightly below average.

The concept of a thriller based on a six-month season of "The Real World" sounds promising and it actually starts out fairly well. It is a relief to find that none of the five housemates are anywhere near as irritating as Trashelle, Puck, or Mulie.

Unfortunately as things progress the plot holes begin to overshadow the whole concept. Just the idea of waiting almost six months to begin killing off the characters strains all credibility. Apparently the rich clients who are paying for this exercise in torture get some enjoyment from watching six months of mundane "Real World" stupidity, then they really get off on witnessing the long-anticipated demise of the cast. A more promising idea would be if the rich clients were people with a past grudge against each cast member who pay contract killers to wipe out their specific enemy as part of a group kill. The screenwriter vaguely hints at this possibility but it is never confirmed so such a scenario was probably not part of the story.

Like "Blair Witch" the videography is intentionally horrible because it is supposed to be from "eye in the sky" surveillance cameras. Unfortunately they decided that limiting the POV to wide surveillance-type shots would be uninteresting so they quickly destroy the illusion with hand-held tight shots and nervous editing.

If you saw Jennifer Sky in the "Three Blondes" episode of Charmed or on Xena you would be hard pressed to identify her in "My Little Eye". They actually manage to make her look "dowdy" in this movie which was quite an achievement, certainly more difficult than anything else they attempted.

Five strangers are picked to live in a house and have their every moment taped for a live webcast--find out what happens when people stop being polite, and start getting--freaked the heck out! This movie knocked me outta my socks! Some may say the main plot line is predictable, but there are so many shifts and changes that even those who figure it out are still surprised by some things. Some have called it a mix between "Blair Witch Project" and "Big Brother," but I think the best thing about this movie is that it has a unique style that creates an incredibly eerie atmosphere and terrific suspense. Worth mentioning is the subtle modem-connecting noises in the soundtrack, as well as the "infrared" moments that make the cast look simultaneously demonic and like frightened deer caught in headlights. There are a few flaws, and I really think the first 11 minutes of deleted scenes should have been included in the movie. But overall, this is an effectively creepy and surprising thriller. The DVD is a whole lotta fun too. My Rating: 8/10

the acting was not as good as i thought it would have been! The movie itself had a poor plot and the story line was very basic! was a very unrealistic movie with no real meaning behind it! over rated by adverts and there is no way it should be rated an 18 by the government! the only scary parts were the actors!!

It was a good idea and it did start to build into a slightly interesting film, then I guess the script and screen writers got bored. The movie falls flat back on "Boo, there's someone behind you oh it's your mate" and flash some flesh to keep them interested. Not much mind you.

If you want a movie that's more scary than this, I'd suggest Shrek. That dragon was just sooooo scary :)

I went to this film hoping to be scared. I wanted a spine thrilling, toe bending, blood curdling scream fest. Two hours later I came out completely disappointed. The premise is quite simple. Five people enter a net-cam rigged house for six months, all they have to do is stay for the duration and they get one million each. Pretty tempting reward I have to admit, and the film started off quite well. Light references to 'The Breakfast Club' made the opening a lot more enjoyable. The characters are all well presented and we have no problem understanding exactly their personality, although the relationships to each other seem unrealistic considering they have been spending the last six months together. There is bitchiness but the group dynamic is not pushed to its limit and it seems unbelievable that these people would live together for so long considering they have so little in common, even for a million bucks. The arrival of a letter telling one of the contestants his grandfather is dead is the start of supposedly manipulative techniques on the part of 'The Company'. A series of events and arrivals lead up to an ending that for me made little sense even in the realms of cinema. In modern society where 'reality' based shows are becoming more popular this film tries to add a 'what if' factor that just doesn't pan out. The climax ends up being little more then a cheap frill that we have paid good money to see. A sentiment echoed in the film but without the impact to make any real statement. I understand what the filmmakers were trying to say about modern society and our voyeuristic needs as well as our morbid desires but they just didn't exploit the films potential enough. The dynamic of the group, the location and the theme of the film could have been presented a lot better and the concluding effort to twist the story and surprise us just left me with a feeling of disappointment and frustration. There was so much more potential in this film that could have been executed if the filmmakers looked at what it is that makes reality shows popular in the first place before trying to make a horror hybrid.

It's a pity the creators didn't make any effort at developing character - or plot - or indeed something other than a film which is nearly an exact rip off of "the shuttered house" - but swapping S&M webcams for Snuff webcams to be different.

I wanted to see a "horror film" - but then again there hasn't been one made in decades worthy of the name.

MISANTHROPIC SPOILER ALERT

I tried to enjoy it - seeing dumb teenagers killed is how I get my kicks in films - but for the life of me I couldn't find a redeeming feature - barring the spooky glowing eyes greenvision night filming.

Just the premise of folks spending 6 months in a house with strangers is far more interesting than the drivel on show - but as there is no depth to anything from the US these days - the lack of understanding of dramatic elements from the creators, eliminates the possibility of any tension in situations they come up with. Instead we fast forward to the last couple of days of the stunt and endure some lame incidents which result in a lot of clamour and shoutiness - from novice actors squawking predicatable and largely worthless lines.

Convenient in terms of a short film - but poor plotting story wise.

The climax - as it is - comes as no surprise and the film is almost entirely shockless and gore-less. My happy-go-splatter cheery demeanour was crushed with bored misery by the time the credits rolled - and due to a printing error in the running time, I had expected (indeed looked forward to) another 25 mins of screen time, but as soon as the final die is cast the film abruptly ceases - just when there was scope for a bit of extreme nastiness and depravity onscreen - (I won't elaborate but I was sorely aggrieved that nothing further happened. ha ha ha)

It's as if the "Texas Chainsaw massacre" hadn't been made. Now that is a low budget movie that delivers the goods - in fact it is almost a blueprint for every film that came after. A pity the makers obviously hadn't heard of it really, as in the 28 years since it was made - it seems that the horror genre has completely lost the power to be original or shock - and is regressing in quality.

Too many stupid contrivances. No depth. Pointless in the extreme. Characterless/faceless/useless. I really cannot think of a single good reason to watch this absolute crying disgrace of a film.

Really - see it yourself by all means - I'm only writing this to get it out of my system so I no longer feel spavined by abnegation - but if you dig Halloween, Texas Chainsaw massacre, Argento, Hooper, Romero movies etc, peter jackson even (his pre LOTR stuff)- and you know your horror movies

like me - then you will sit there stunned that people as giftless and feckless as this are allowed anywhere near a movie camera.

On the other hand if you thought "Jeepers creepers" was good (well the first 15 mins are OK) then you may be enthralled by this little flick. If you are scared by flapping birds, or green lights, then you'll love it.

I simply left the cinema with a really miserable face on. As a writer I make a point of seeing 100's of films a year to hone my craft, and each year I swear that the decent ones are both fewer in number and lesser in quality. What the hell is going wrong out there in film land????

1/10 for horror fans. 5/10 for folks who haven't a clue about horror films. 10/10 for morons/blair witch fans.

The premise that 5 people would sign up for a reality web-cast with little or no knowledge of who is running the show took some swallowing, but My Little Eye still managed to be a surprisingly nasty and rather effective shocker which exceeded my expectations, thanks to a sharp script, innovative visuals and some good performances from its young cast.

Aiming to get their hands on a share of $1m, five people agree to spend six months in a remote house packed to the rafters with cameras—their every move supposedly being broadcast over the worldwide web. But as the 'experiment' draws to a close, it becomes apparent that the participants are taking part in a game far deadlier than they might ever have imagined.

With excellent use of both CCTV footage and night-vision, director Marc Evans makes the whole 'My Little Eye' experience much more real to his viewers; at times, the editing and unique camera angles makes it really feel like one is actually watching events as they unfold, and, in this way, the movie is comparable to other recent reality-based films The Blair Witch Project and Series 7: The Contenders.

And whilst the slow-burn approach taken by the makers might be a little too leisurely for today's younger horror fans raised on a diet of MTV style cinema, those of us who don't mind a film taking its time to develop will be rewarded with a clever and unexpected ending which takes no prisoners.

Add to proceedings a little gore and some female nudity and the result is a surprisingly enjoyable film. Now if only Big Brother would spice things up with a little serious mental torture and murder...