See No Evil

See No Evil is one of those non-important horror movies released in the last year, starring the WWE star Kane. It’s even produced by WWE. I saw this intro credit when the movie started, and I thought to myself, “Uh oh.” What an understatement of the year.

See No Evil involves 8 teenage delinquents and their minders, one of which, the cop, faced the same crazed killer in the past and lost an arm while doing so. These 8 delinquents are being offered a shortened sentence if they help clean up an old hotel that is being converted into a shelter for the homeless. These teens don’t care much for actual work; they’d rather drink whatever booze they can find, smoke weed, and fool around. Somehow, the crazy killer that the cop fought before has ended up in the hotel and he is now stalking the teenagers and their handlers. The killer seeks them out one by one and kills them because of their sins. He uses the normal big guy weapons: axes, big hooks, his body slams.

There are pluses and minuses to this movie. The movie has all of the elements of some nice gory horror, but it’s not very original in any way. There’s plenty of gore, worthy of a nice icky Italian horror (the killer has an affinity for eye removal). The site of the old Blackwell Hotel is nice and spooky. A few of the deaths are unusual. You are surprise at who lives, but not who dies. Some of the characters are just marked. As for the minuses, the characters are all your normal horror movie teens. There’s the rich blonde, the geeky kid, the tough girl, the Goth chick, the animal lover, the drug dealer tough, the hoodlum, and the red shirt (Yes, that is a Star Trek reference). The character list reads like The Breakfast Club. The bad guy is such a retread of almost everything else you have ever seen before, an extreme version of the “movie rules” from Scream. He’s not even scary, just a hulky beast, stomping around with a permanent growl. He’s even got Jason syndrome, with the torturous mommy in the background. The “twist” they throw in is just obvious. But my biggest minus is the fact that Kane, the big bad scary guy, throws his victims around like they are in the wrestling ring, accompanied with big boom, smack sounds. He does it to every single one of those victims. It’s ridiculous.

Overall, I wouldn’t waste a rental on this one, unless the idea of a big wrestler skulking around, slamming victims into walls, is your cup of tea. There’s not much original here, but I did like the Goth girl’s tattoos. It’s not as bad as some horror I have seen, but there is nothing really new here. You can do better, just rent one of the classics instead.

Rating: 3 Purrs for lots of icky eyeballs