Awesome Movie

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Extremely dissatisfying and ultimately a waste of time. Slow moving with no real purpose, and too many unanswered questions. Give this one a miss.

I won't deny that I was pretty excited about seeing this movie. Three years had passed since I saw one of my favourite horror films ever, THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, and MY LITTLE EYE seemed to be a film very much in a similar vein – a low budget production about kids trapped in the woods, focusing on realism over everything else. Trailers made the film look extremely scary and with the Halloween season upon us once again, I was eager to see a film that would freak me out. MY LITTLE EYE is no classic but instead a solid, atmospheric and at times deeply disturbing horror film that hits the mark more often than not. Despite a deluge in the horror/reality show market (before the film there was an advert for HALLOWEEN: RESURRECTION, with a very similar premise by the looks of it), this is a film to take full advantage of the new internet medium, with a soundtrack chock-full of weird modem noise and sounds of zoom lens and unnatural computer effects.The pacing is deliberately slow with minimal action. The first hour consists of endless plot set-up, character building, and spooky events occurring which only add to the mystery of the situation. The setting of the old, creepy wooden house works well and the isolation of the situation sets in before long. The film itself is strong on atmosphere and as realistic as you could want it. One pleasant surprise is the calibre of the acting, generally being fantastic and as good as you could get: the cast of fresh-faced twentysomething youngsters make their various characters as realistic as possible without resorting to overacting for effect. The best thing to say is that you forget they're acting, so they've done their jobs more than adequately. Special mention to Kris Lemche (GINGER SNAPS), once again stealing another movie with his highly effective and edgy performance.For the first hour, the suspense and atmosphere is gradually upped with a string of inexplicable events. A crow becomes trapped in the house and is killed, a parcel of bricks is found outside, and a bloodstained hammer appears on the bed. Then a stranger arrives, Lemche finds access to the internet and all hell breaks loose. The last twenty minutes turns the film into something like a routine slasher movie, with a maniac going on a varied killing spree, and thus some of the unsettling atmosphere is lost and instead the film turns into a stark, gory stalk-and-slash suspenser. Personally I prefer my horror films to have supernatural explanations so I didn't think this finale was as great as it could have been. It also seems to be needlessly nihilistic just for the sake of it.The film falls into the trap of saying too much at the finale, having to reveal every single plot point to the audience when perhaps some ambiguity should have been in order. Technically, this film is surprisingly proficient and makes fine use of little gimmicks like having the screen split into four at the beginning and end, and some excellent sequences with night-vision cameras which make pupilless eyes glow spookily in the dark. Although this falls short of being a classic in the same way I consider THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT to be a classic, strong production values and acting make it a contender and one to check out for all major fright-fans.

After having bought My Little Eye two days ago for a measly 1.99, I was anticipating rushing home to put on my surround sound headphones and hopefully enjoying this film. I'm a fan of the whole found footage/mockumentary sub genre and ever since the TV ads sparked on the TV to be viewed by my six year old self, I have been looking to watch this.The film is about 5 random citizens who take part in a Big Brother-esque web reality show where the have to stay 6 months in a secluded area, if they last they win 100 Million Dollars (Each, I'm not sure)However,if one person leaves they ALL lose.Without spoiling too much, towards the end of there stay, weird and creepy things start to happen that escalate to a bloody ending.I really enjoyed this film, the acting, the camera-work, the story is great and for me is very engaging as it also works as a satire of all that reality TV crap everybody seems obsessed with nowadays. The ending shifts the film from a creepy thriller to a full blooded horror which may change people's opinions about the film positively or negatively, but I still found it entertaining.The film is overall a very bleak, disturbing, rude and violent film, that most people should like if they are into this sort of film.I suggest getting the special DVD edition as it comes with many extras and an interactive viewing mode which gives a lot more insight and footage into the story,characters, squashes plot holes and answers questions not explained in the standard edition (The film was originally 4 hours long) So it's good so this interesting interactive experience as it adds more replay value to the film. Not saying that the standard version isn't good, its that the interactive extra adds a WHOLE lot more.There are people absolutely hating this film, saying its the worst film they have ever seen. They obviously don't watch much movies. They can, not like it, but its not one of the worst films ever made in the least. Give this film a chance...

Now this movie isn't the scariest movie I've ever seen, but it knows how to make your heart pump and how to make you almost want to turn it off because of the suspense. The plot is that five people, three guys and two girls, have entered an internet reality show and have to live in a mansion in the middle of now where together for 6 months. If one of them leaves they all lose, but if they all stay then they each get $1 million at the end. The film starts with quick snippets of each persons audition tape so we can see what type of people they are and then we're straight in near the end of the six months. During the course of the movie we find out about everyones past, any dark secrets their keeping and who we can trust and who we can't. This movie made me watch it behind a cushion. There were so many parts where it was obvious something was going to happen, but you didn't know what or when. The last twenty minutes or so are very blood hungry. Four deaths happen in the space of twenty minutes, without hardly giving you time to recover. The thing that made this movie good, was how we were watching it from a 'big brother' style point of view, so if there was a death we were seeing it all, nothing was cut out, there were no camera cuts, it was just right there in front of you.Considering this started out life as an independent project it has a fantastic script and wonderful characters who, after 10 minutes, we feel like we know and have known for years. The cast play them perfectly, each making the character their own.A great thriller, a must see for horror fans.