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Scott Weinberg

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At the very least, the flick shows a bit more creativity than your normal "forest slasher" misadventure.

Rated: 3/5

Oct 18, 2007

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Mike Barnard

Future Movies UK

Rated: 3/10

Jan 1, 1800

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Absolutely fucking dreadful. The 2nd worst movie I have ever watched. And I have seen a lot!

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/19/23

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For a film with such a small budget, this one is pretty good. It's creepy and funny, both intentionally and not. The quality of picture, sound and acting takes some tolerance but all in all it's really fun. And messed up.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/11/23

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There's a car chase scene in the movie where one girl shits in her hand and throws it at her attacker. Cool, right? Unfortunately we don't get to see it much because by that time the hand-held cameras (or is it mobile phones?) will have you in dizzy trippiness, and if that is not so then the blurriness will fix you just fine. Acting is non-existent and you can forget about lightning. This is the no-budget zone. The dialogue will have you in fits. But the natural settings are suitable for a sense of genuine menace and the girls' continuous screaming, much like a Sonic Youth record, eventually crawls just under your skin. Violence is almost all of it off-screen so not much gore but you do sense its nastiness. There's a toolbox. No better horror like The Last House On The Left and I Spit On Your Grave have been praised as 'groundbreaking' and 'influential' and it's a shame really because at the very least Five Across The Eyes never takes its self that seriously (nifty Euro-tune at the end credits). Hopefully this little indie will shift a few hundred units but even so once, and only once, should be enough.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/13/23

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wow reading the reviews below on this one people dont know decent horror , This was a well done movie done in 8mm style with the grainy look in the film , what people dont realize is the more real it is the scarier it is BECAUSE THIS MOVIE COULD HAPPEN IN REAL LIFE . thats what makes it scary not CGI or any other special effects . its Reality people . stuff like this happens all the time. But there are a few problems i have with this , even though the girls were scared shitless common sense should fall into play after you calm down a bit , instead of trying to deflait the tires pull the plug wires , its alot easier and faster . or puncture the radiator . The other problem i had was all the screaming you couldnt understand what was being said . all and all a decent movie

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

02/08/23

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Five Across The Eyes is a film which was made for a reported $4,000 and boy does it show. The premise is that there are 5 teenage girls driving home from a football match but they're lost and they bump into someones car, they then panic and drive off without leaving so much as a note or even attempting to finding the owner. Once he discovers what has happened, the owner of said car is none too happy and decides to chase them down. It sounds like a workable enough concept however this film is so fundamentally flawed in pretty much every department that FATE (hows that for an acronym?) is barely even watchable. I'll acknowledge the minuscule budget again however if I were to go out and make an incomprehensible film with my camcorder and then sent it out to various film-festivals I wouldn't expect anything less than a critical pasting regardless of how much money I did or didn't spend or how many 'non-actors' I used, so here goes. First thing's first, the dialogue is terrible, I was going to write down some examples but there became too many. It's just inane, as are the characters, and I used that term loosely. Of course the dialogue isn't helped by the pitiful acting on display. These are 'non-actors' and from what I can see only one of the cast has actually done film work since this, according to the imdb anyway. The reasons for this are clear to anyone who has seen this film, however just because they are 'non-actors' it doesn't mean their acting has to be quite this atrocious. When I was a student I made a short film and I used drama students, the result was that a cast of technically 'non-actors' could actually act quite well and thus it was probably the strongest aspect of my rather clunky ten minute film. What I am saying is there just isn't any excuse. It's not even like there are any redeeming features, the camera work is so shockingly bad that it is nearly impossible to see what is going on. It is a grainy handheld camera which spends most of the film inside the car. In theory this should help to create a claustrophobic atmosphere but it is nothing more than an annoyance. There are scenes where they girls think they are free of danger only to see a set of headlights appear in the distance. It's a good job that we are informed of this verbally because the picture is so grainy and downright indistinguishable that we cant see anything for ourselves. In fact it's difficult enough to make out the people in the car let alone whatever might be outside. Then there are the scenes when the girls are panicking within the car and the camera goes berserk pointing indiscriminately in every direction regardless of where the 'action' is actually happening. It just sucks the will to live from within everyone who is watching it, well mine anyway. The fact that this film has a DVD release which appears to be the on par with any other 'horror' films is terribly misleading too. There are various kudos from supposedly respectable websites and references to certain nominations for certain awards, the Razzies no doubt. This is nothing more than a hodgepodge and is one of the most excruciating films I've ever experienced. Avoid, if only for your own sanity.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/21/23

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Absolutely the biggest pile of shit movie in existence.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/23/23

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Greg Swinson

Director

Ryan Thiessen

Director

Angela Brunda

Caroline

Sandra Paduch

Isabella

Jennifer Barnett

Stephanie

Mia Yi

Melanie

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Synopsis

After fleeing from the scene of a car accident, five lost teenage girls (Angela Brunda, Sandra Paduch, Jennifer Barnett) face the wrath of the driver.

Director: Greg Swinson, Ryan Thiessen
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 12, 2017
Runtime: 1h 35m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital

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