See No Evil (2006/Lionsgate Blu-ray)
Picture:
C+ Sound: B- Extras: D Feature: D
Hoping to
find a new way to make money, the WWE (formerly WWF) wrestling outfit tried to
make hit movies as one of their bad actor/stars (no further comment needed) was
becoming a star in gaudy commercial fare.
Over at Lionsgate, they decided to hire longtime XXX hardcore directing
hack Gregory Dark (of the tired-on-arrival Dark Brothers: if you can see it, it
stinks!) to do essentially a torture porn film.
Hiring big wrestler Kane to play the latest forgettable serial killer, See No Evil (2006) was the result and
in it, you’ll see nothing original.
As usual,
a group of young teen types are going to (in this case, sent to) an old hotel
to clean it up. They are juvenile delinquents/thieves
and the brainless screenplay by Dan Magidan (whose only previous experience was
writing storylines for the WWE and it shows) is that because these kids did
something wrong, they deserve to have bad things happen to them. It happens to anyone watching this pathetic
piece of garbage that shows how torture porn is not real Horror genre work, but
hack work by mostly talentless, desperate people.
A waste
on almost every level imaginable, it is surprising (saw Saw sales) that Lionsgate would issue the Blu-ray on this before so
many more worthy titles, but here it is; hopefully for the last time ever.
The 1080p
1.78 X 1 digital High Definition image was shockingly shot in 35mm film, but
this is so soft and weak that you would never know that. In these pieces of garbage, the torture
extends to ruining each frame of the image and this has not aged well in any
way, shape or form. A new HD transfer
would only improve this a little bit anyhow, so don’t expect much
visually. The DTS-HD Master Audio (MA)
lossless 7.1 stretches out the DTS 5.1 theatrical sound too much, making the
already distortion-plagued mix that much thinner.
Extras
include two unnecessary audio commentary tracks (Dark & Madigan, Kane &
Co-Executive Producer Jed Blaugrund), WWE Promo Spots, two making of
featurettes and (try not to laugh) Storyboard-To-Film Comparison.
- Nicholas Sheffo
