MOVIE REVIEW CLASSIC: MY LITTLE EYE

Are you a fan of show's like Survivor or big brother? Do you like your films scary? Do you like shocking death scenes and endings? Then go out and rent or buy this film! This is one of the more chilling reality-based horror films and it has a great set up and ending!

My Little Eye is a 2002 British horror film directed by Marc Evans about five adults who agree to spend six months together in an isolated mansion while being filmed at all times. The idea for the film came from reality television shows such as Big Brother. The title refers to the guessing game I spy.

My Little Eye opens with cast auditions for a reality show and the audience is introduced to the contestants: Matt, Rex, Danny, Emma, and Charlie. The rules state that they must spend six months together in an isolated house and they will win one million dollars each. If someone leaves everyone loses. The film then cuts to the near end of their stay at the house and the stress of living with each other is all too apparent. The stakes are raised when it appears that someone is playing nasty tricks on them in an effort to turn them against each other and force someone out of the house. Danny (Stephen O'Reilly) receives a letter that his grandfather has died and Emma (Laura Regan) finds a bloody hammer on her pillow when she wakes up.
Soon after, a mysterious visitor Travis Patterson (Bradley Cooper) arrives at the house. Travis seems completely oblivious to the cameras in the house, and doesn't seem disturbed at the houseguests revelation that they're being filmed for an internet program. After a night of drinking and drug use.....all hell breaks loose.......

This is the kind of film that captures people acting as people, and not over acted in any aspect. They are that superbly done! The cold color contrasts, the change of filters as the scenes shift from camera to camera as you follow the characters moving around in the house, gives you a wierd voyueristic feeling. Much like the unsettling feeling of witnessing an arguement that you shouldn't be listening to.

So yeah, this is one of my shorter reviews, and I think I will remain doing them this way :P Some of my readers have mentioned I give a little too much. Not in the sense of spoilers mind you but perhaps details that should be explored by the reviewer. So anyways, watch this one! It's cold, and gritty, but it's an excellent story that feels so real, like it could happen! And I love stories like this! So get out the popcorn, enjoy the film by yourself or with a special somebody! It's well deserving of your attention, I wish more movies were made like this! 10/10

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