WWE Wrestler Kane stars as Jacob Goodnight, (although his name is never uttered during the entire duration of the film) a razor clawed (apparently) psycho who plucks sinners eyes out. And, when a group of 8 teens are allowed out of juvenile detention to help re-develop a festering hotel into a homeless shelter, you can bet eyeballs will fly.
The film looks awesome thanks to great set design and cool cinematography, but the pacing and obvious omitted footage had an adverse effect on me. Nothing happens for the first half hour (well, nothing that we haven’t seen before anyway) and then everyone is killed off in seriously rapid succession. Poor pacing aside, there’s just so much stuff missing and it seriously affects character arcs (in my eyes at least). We either aren’t given the whole story or we don’t get enough time to grow fond of the characters and therefore we aren’t that bothered when they expire.
OVERALL SUMMARY
See No Evil at least attempts to tie everything up and it has some memorable set pieces, the “Dog Food” death being my personal favourite. The film showed promise and potential but for whatever reason things didn’t go exactly to plan. Horror fans should still definitely check this out however, as it is a lot of fun.
