A group of delinquents are sent to clean the Blackwell Hotel. Little do
they know reclusive psychopath Jacob Goodnight has holed away
in the rotting hotel. When one of the teens is captured, those who
remain -- a group that includes the cop who put a bullet in Goodnight's
head four years ago -- band together to survive against the brutal
killer.
See No Evil is a 2006 slasher film directed by Gregory Dark, written by Dan Madigan, produced by Joel Simon, and starring professional wrestler Kane (Glenn Jacobs). It is the first major film produced by WWE Films and was released by Lions Gate Entertainment.
What is this film about? A ragtag group of juvenile delinquents assigned the task of cleaning up
an abandoned hotel find out just how deadly community service can be
when they are stalked by a monstrous, four-hundred-pound maniac with a
grudge in director Gregory Dark's wrestling-infused survival horror
flick. It was a mere four years ago that seven-foot menace Jacob
Goodnight (WWE superstar Kane) was shot in the head and left for dead by
a local police officer. But Jacob wasn't going down that easy. With a
steel plate
subsequently attached to
his skull and ten razor-sharp fingernails ready to scrape grey matter
from the skulls of his victims, Jacob retreated to the abandoned
Blackwell Hotel, where he resided in the darkened, rotting hallways
while planning his ultimate revenge. As fate would have it, Jacob
wouldn't have to go far to satiate his raging bloodlust, though, and as
the unsuspecting teens make their way through the crumbling corridors of
the once-luxurious inn guided by the very same policeman who fired that
misguided bullet years earlier, the notorious killer sharpens his
nails, stalks his prey, and prepares for a little payback.
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| Eight Teens, One Weekend, One Serial Killer. |
Ok let's be realistic. Nobody walked into a movie made by the WWE and directed by a former porn director & expected to see Citizen Kane. See what I did there. Kane. The name of the wrestler in the film. I'm here all week folks. Glenn Jacobs is cast perfectly as the hulking brute
and the deaths are suitably over the top. He has about 4 lines in the entire film and he delivers them flawlessly. Lines such as "NOOOOOO" and "I see it."
But to be honest....It's bad but not so bad you can't watch it and enjoy it. The art direction is generally good, if very, very derivative of other
films like "Hostel" and the "Saw" series. This may be the dirtiest, filthiest set in film history. The actors had to catch some disease while filming. And speaking of the actors, their acting was decent. Granted they didn't have any serious emoting to do but they did the best they could with what they had.
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| This Summer, someone is raising Kane. |
While the death scenes are gory, they aren't necessary scary. There's
really no suspense just some gory death scenes. Because of this, the
movie doesn't hold much of a repeat value. There's no doubt in my mind that Kane can be
a great fixture in the horror genre. He has the look and presence for
it; he just needs better material to work with. I'm actually really looking forward to the sequel directed by the Soska sisters. They made the awesome "American Mary" and may be just what the doctor ordered to make Goodnight a franchise killer.
I went in expecting nothing, and what I got was a somewhat entertaining
nothing. I loved the death scene
where the girl gets attacked by the stray dogs and Kane's death itself
is quite awesome. It's a typical slasher movie that is fun to watch and if you like
mindless gory horror then the film will please you. Among the end credits, after the cast and stunt list, there's a scene where a dog urinates in Jacob's empty eye socket. Pretty funny.
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| You Don't Know Evil: Unless You See It. |
Trivia:
In the room with all the money pasted to the walls, every single bill has had the eyes cut out.
Glenn Jacobs (Kane) has
stated that the best thing about making this movie (due to the hectic
amount of traveling as a professional wrestler) was the opportunity it
gave him to sleep in the same bed for two months.
Jacob Goodnight's name is never mentioned in the film. It was originally included in a monologue by Steven Vidler, but the scene ran too long and it was absentmindedly cut out.
It was mentioned in some interviews that Kane's co-stars were a little
uneasy around the 7' man. Fangoria magazine mentions the director having
to ask Kane to remain seated during cast introductions, since one of
the women, who only came up to his sternum, wouldn't come near him.
The tagline "This summer, evil gets Raw" refers to the WWE wrestling show Glenn Jacobs (Kane) appears on, _"WWE Monday Night RAW" (2005)_.
Zoe's sister's name appears on the cell phone as Kiley Warner.
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| This Summer, Evil Gets Raw. |
