See No Evil (2006)

Produced by World Wrestling Entertainment mogul Vince McMahon, See No Evil a standard-issue death-fest designed for maximum gross-out appeal, and in that sense it delivers the goods with crushed heads, multiple eye-gougings, throat-rippings and other grisly fates that gore fans will want to discover for themselves. If your idea of a good time is watching a mangy dog urinate into the vacant eye socket of a corpse, this is just the movie for you! In an attempt to create a new horror icon like Freddy Krueger or Jason Voorhees, former porno director Gregory Dark and less-than-stellar screenwriter Dan Madigan have dreamed up a routine plot that's hardly original, but deviously addictive to anyone who digs this kind of stuff: Eight troubled and not-very-bright teens, fresh out of a detention center, are given a second chance when they're taken to the decrepit, filthy Blackwell Hotel and told to clean the place up so it can be turned into a homeless shelter. What they don't know is that the hotel hides a secret, axe-wielding resident named Jacob Goodnight (played by WWE superstar Glen "Kane" Jacobs) who's got a knack for plucking the eyeballs from his hapless and ill-fated victims. He's basically an evil kid in the hulking body of a wrestler (call it type-casting, if you will), and See No Evil is more sick than scary as Jacob does his handiwork, which includes the rather hilarious and grimly ironic dispatch of an animal rights activist, to name just one item in the movie's smorgasbord of splatter. At a brisk 85 minutes, the movie's over before you can work up any genuine terror. Still, a sequel seems likely (even if it's straight-to-video), and devoted horror fans will want to check it out.--Jeff Shannon Amazon.com

Hell Night

"See No Evil" is a great body-count slasher, starring wrestling champion Kane; he is Jacob Goodnight, a humongous serial killer who makes Jason Voorhees look like a ninety pound weakling. He is brutal and frightening as he slays his victims with hooks and chains, reminding me of Leatherface in "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."

The setting is perfect. The abandoned Blackwell Hotel is a maze of rooms and corridors, secret passages, and two-way mirrors. An attractive group of young delinquents are bussed there to spend three days helping to clean it. Unfortunately, most of them don't survive the first night. Unknown to them, the upper floors are littered with the eyeless corpses of derelicts, victims of Goodnight. Trapped within the hotel, the delinquents are slaughtered like animals.

"See No Evil" reminded me much of "Hell Night," starring Linda Blair. A group of sorority and fraternity pledges are locked inside the gates of haunted Garth Manor. In the basement, one of the Garth family members still survives, a homicidal mongoloid.

This film has some tense chase scenes; graphic, shocking violence; and a great revelation ending. The acting and direction are superb. Jacob Goodnight should be allowed into the Hall of Infamous Serial Killers along with Jason Voorhees, Leather Face, and Michael Myers. In regards to serial killers, I like the strong, silent type.

Put "See No Evil" on your must see list of modern slasher flicks. After watching Jacob Goodnight in action, I doubt you'll be able to get a good night's sleep.
November 20, 2008

all that gore still doesn't make the movie great

Responding to a call, a cop investigate a house that turned out to be an earthly version of hell. Nearly killed, the cop puts a bullet into the monster of a serial killer. However, salvation comes with a price. The cop loses one of his hands.

4 years later, the cop is now a guard of a juvie detention center. 8 teens are taken to a condemned hotel. In exchange of a reduced sentence, the teens must clean up the hotel to have it presentable when it becomes a shelter.

Like the 10 little Indians, the teens start dying one by one. Killing them is Jacob Goodnight, the same killer that the cop thought he had killed 4 years earlier.

Overall, simple and predictable and spiced with gore. Regardless, it was ho-hum. September 11, 2008

Worth a rental, though horror fans make want a place for it on their shelves

Pretty much by-the-numbers slasher flick gets a few extra points for high production values and competent film making. A bunch of good looking teens, incarcerated for various offenses, get time shaved off their sentences by helping to clean up an old hotel so it could be turned into a homeless shelter. Before they know it, a big ol' creepy serial killer is stalking them one by one through the dark halls of the abandoned hotel. That's the movie.

I loved how, in the opening scenes, the kids are picked up from the prison to be transported to the hotel, and they're all wearing the hippest, most stylish casual wear possible, when in real life they'd be garbed in baggy prison-issue orange jump suits. But I won't quibble.

The movie doesn't shy away from gritty, gross murder effects, which may be a plus or a minus in your book (I don't need the graphic scenes, but I don't hold them against a movie that advertises itself as a slasher pic). And I thought the handful of flashback scenes showing how the killer got that way to be genuinely dark and scary, even demonstrating some artful subtlety. Anyway, if you're open to new entries in the genre that flourished in the wake of the "Halloween" and "Friday the 13th" movies, this is a fairly painless hour and twenty-five minutes or so. Generous extra features round out the DVD. September 8, 2008

See No Evil will scare you out of your mind!

See no evil is a fast pace horror film starring Kane a.k.a. Glenn Jacobs. The movie is quite grapic so anyone who is disturbed by blood should probably not watch this. I would recommend this to anyone who is a fan of blood and gore and people who love to watch wrestling because you won't be dissapointed! 5 out of 5 stars! June 11, 2008

Kane goes Nuts!

Kane playes a religious nut keeped in isolation by his mother who teaches him a warped and extreme versionh of the christian faith. He lives his life gouging out the eyes of sinners until a cop puts abullet in his head but looses his hand in the process.
Years later the officer has recoverd and is working with the Dept. of Corrections. He has been tasked with keeping a group of hot-headed criminqal wanabes told to refurbish a old hotel for use by the homeless. Kane is living there and does not like visitors. He begins his trademark killings of brutal decapitation and the final eye removal. The officer and crew soon figure out whats going on and try to find a way out only to be locked in by the curator who just happens to be Kane's Mother! Kane uses this to trap and kill all but three of the felins who finally knock Kane out of a window and he lands on a window grate that pierces his heart and kills him. The End.

Now to may people this may not be a real eye grabber. Steriotype killings with a few touches and a very basic plot making for a short film. the gore is the high point of the films Horror factor as it has plenty of stabing, hacking and gouging to go around. Unlike all the other WWE Films this was intended to be a slasher and they did well enough. Not flashy but certainly doesnt suck. May 31, 2008

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