Review: My Little Eye (2002)

Genre: Horror

Director: Marc Evans 

Writers: David Hilton, James Watkins

Staring: Sean Cw Johnson, Kris Lemche, Jennifer Sky

Rating: ★½

My Little Eye has the potential to be a great film due to its unique storyline however instead of providing gasps and jumps it creates snores and yawns. In a period where British Horrors were thriving with the likes of Dog Soldiers and 28 Days Later, My Little Eye definitely lets down the team and failed to make an impression on anyone. Maybe it was the unknown actors and crew or maybe it was because it has the least amount of horrifying moments produced by a horror ever. 

The storyline plays homage to at the time recent and popular reality TV series Big Brother. Five contestants must stay in a completely isolated house for six months, if they all stay they win $1million however if one leaves or breaks the rules they all loose. Each contestant represents the classic stereotypes, you have your innocent fragile virgin, the whore, the jock and the comic relief. Everything is there and in place to make a great movie however they choose to put all the action at the end. 

The group eventually finds out that they're not being broadcasted as a young Bradley Cooper who plays Travis who works and pratically lives on the Internet discovers the house when skiing and explains how he's never heard of them or seen a single advertisement online.  The reason they're in the house soon becomes clear, they are there to be watched and tortured by "the company". However torture in this film is a crate of bricks being delivered or a nasty message being left of a steamed up window, not a limb cut off. There is then a big plot twist at the end that brings the action and violence you would expect, however for me it's too little to late and many of you would of probably switched of well before. 

The acting is of low quality and it feels scripted and unnatural, the score is again below average and fails at trying to create any suspense and tension. The only creditable thing about this film is the use of in narrative cameras giving us a constant third person outsider perspective. No wonder this film isn't heard of by many and I'm sure now Hollywood star Bradley Cooper wants to keep it that way, its possibly the most boring horror to date, the rating I'm giving it is purely for the storyline. I wouldn't rush to see this one. Marc Evans and My Little Eye you've been evicted please pack up your bags and leave!