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.
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.