Five Across the Eyes (2006)

You know, I've seen a lot of really awful low-budget horror flicks, and the vast majority of the time I want to slap myself for giving them a chance; in fact, I don't even bother with them anymore, and have become an expert and identifying these cheap, uninspired straight-to-DVD movies before I even think about buying/renting them. Having heard a lot about this movie, I was curious— I knew I wasn't in for anything special, but I was intrigued.The paper-thin plot has five teenage girls driving in the backwoods of Tennessee on the way home from a football game. For no apparent reason, they continue to take turns on more backroads in an attempt to make it home quicker, and end up rear-ending a car at a rundown country store. Soon after, they find themselves being stalked by the crazed woman whose car they damaged, who subjects them to a multitude of horrors."Five Across the Eyes" plays out like the blandest of student films— generally poor acting, bad dialogue, corny music, and amateur cinematography— but for whatever reasons, I found the attempt here to be somewhat admirable. The film draws on the brutal grindhouse aesthetic of films like "The Last House on the Left", although the writing here is much poorer. As I said, there really is not story to speak of, and the dialogue is pretty awful. The five young ladies here give performances that you might expect out of an unorganized high school play, and this is expounded by the lack of intelligent writing. Many people have found the characters and their dialogue embarrassingly bad, but I think that that was at least halfway intentional— they aren't the smartest characters. They are stupid high school girls from backwoods Tennessee. The actress who portrayed the crazed villain was surprisingly good, though.The film was shot on mini-DV camcorders, and it shows. The picture is grainy and appears as is if it could have been shot in 1991, but this aspect of the film is somewhat distinguishing in a positive way, giving it an almost home-video snuff film feel to it. The violence in the film is also surprisingly realistic for such a shoestring production, and is actually rather disturbing at moments— the fuzzy camcorder cinematography probably adds to this factor, and if the acting weren't so bad, you could potentially mistake moments of this film as real-life filmed violence. While the film is ultimately a cheap and generally poorly-written piece of work, I appreciated the stylistic attempt at capturing a bunch of hysterical teenage girls in a car on backwoods roads in the middle of the night. There's little tension and perhaps a bit of suspense, but a lot of this is let down by the dialogue and acting. The cinematographic aspects of the film are great for the kind of style they were going for, it's just too bad the writing and acting wasn't realistic enough to support it. 3.5/10.

The teenagers Isabella (Sandra Paduch), Jamie (Danielle Lilley), Melanie (Mia Yi), Caroline (Angela Brunda) and Stephanie (Jennifer Barnett) are lost in a shortcut they took in their way back home. The inexperienced Bell is driving her mother's van and is worried about the late hour. The quintet decides to stop in an isolated store to ask for directions, and Bell accidentally bumps one headlight of a parked SUV. The girls decide to leave the place and drive in the dark and lonely road trying to reach the main road. They decide to make a u-turn and they are chased by the driver (Veronica Garcia) of the SUV along a night of terror. After the idea of "The Blair Witch Project", many filmmakers have found a way of making low-budget movies in a kind of American version of the Dogma 95, some of them engaging like the Spanish "REC" but most of them complete failures. "Five across the Eyes" is completely amateurish film and debut of the directors, writers, cast and crew and uses the same style, with hand held camera, poor lighting and few locations. The hysteric girls are annoying, screaming and crying along the 95 minutes running time. Further, they have unreasonable silly behavior along the most loneliness road of the world, giving the chance of a maniac killer attacks them several times. This film is painful to watch, with the excessive sadism and violence, and should be shorter and shorter. The only consolation is that I have seen films worse than this one, reason for my rating. My vote is two. Title (Brazil): "Através dos Olhos" ("Through the Eyes")

I can't believe this is on DVD. Even less it was available at my local video store.Some argue this is a good movie if you take in consideration it had only a 4000$ budget. I find this funny. I would find it very bad whichever the budget.Still more funny, I read the following in another review: "Dramatics aside, if you love horror and you love something along the lines of Duel (1971) updated with a little more story and some pretty girls thrown in, you'll love this movie."What?!? This is a shame comparing those two movies.I give a "1", since I can't give a "0". I just don't see any way this movie could be entertaining.

i just want to warn anyone thinking of buying or watching this film, don't. I've joined IMDb just so i could leave a comment about this film, which I've just finished watching, and want to say this is absolutely one of the worst films I've ever seen. the acting was atrocious (where did they find these "actors"?), the soundtrack sounded like something from "music3000" the ps2 game, and the whole idea of the film was completely sick. what the hell is wrong with these people, cant they think of anything else? i don't think we"ll be seeing any of these people in future presentations. if you like a film that involves puking in hands, weeing on clothes, pooing in hands and throwing it at a car, rape by a screwdriver, anal rape by a gun (done by a woman!), and multiple stabbings in chest and downstairs to the killer, then this film is for you. but this will be the the longest 90 mins of your life, so please, for your sanity, Don't WATCH THIS!!!