Do you know who’s watching this very moment? Brand new horror feature Eye Without A Face from director Ramin Niami (Paris, Shirin In Love) combines chills, thrills and bloody murder to bring the voyeur genre bang up to date. This edgy movie creeps on to digital today (23 August) for its UK Premiere from Miracle M.
Holed up in his LA apartment agoraphobic Henry (Dakota Shapiro – The Affair, Valley Of The Boom), spends his days hacking into the webcams of unsuspecting local young women, seeing himself as their protector and guardian angel, rather than what he really is… a stalker. But his creepy peeks take a sinister turn as he starts to suspect one of his ‘friends’, Laura (Vladka Verevko – South Park, Suits), is a killer…
When his YouTuber flatmate Eric (Luke Cook – Dynasty, Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina) steps in to try and put a stop to the twisted hobby, things take a turn for the worse. With Henry becoming more and more convinced that the woman is a murderer and Laura beginning to suspect she’s being watched, the two are soon on a collision course – who will make it out alive?
Eye Without A Face brings to light how we are in this world of almost everything online and the idea that someone could take it to the point of being a protector rather than just a stalker that has hacked into peoples computer cameras.
The film does have that unnerving feeling of voyeurism and that works perfectly for the content of the film, the quality of the film changes from Henry in his room to the moments of the characters that he is watching, Shapiro and Cook work brilliantly on screen with each other, with Cook’s character Eric being obsessed with his phone and his YouTube channel. Henry (Shapiro) on the other hand is more placid.
After a while watching Eye Without A Face you can feel the pick on the modern twist of the movie Rear Window that takes us down the route the technology of the computers and the built-in cameras, it kind of makes you think that you never know if someone is watching you right now while you are reading this review!
This is a film that is an interesting watch, with the subject matter it really works well as a psychological thriller as we delve deeper into Henry’s world of watching people on the screen and his nightmares of his past that are plaguing him at night.
You may or may not see the twist coming but for those that love the Hitchcock style of filmmaking then it will be one that you enjoy, Eye Without A Face is a film that I quite enjoyed watching, it’s not the best, but it works well.
Voyeur Horror from Ramin Niami
Movie title: Eye Without A Face
Movie description: An agoraphobic young man (Henry), living with a Youtuber and struggling actor (Eric), hacks the webcams of young women, and suspects that one of them is a serial killer.
Date published: August 23, 2021
Country: UK
Duration: 1h 38min
Director(s): Ramin Niami
Actor(s): Dakota Shapiro, Luke Cook, Vlada Verevko
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Karen Woodham is the founder and owner of the Blazing Minds. She is also a Cinema reviewer and works with RealD 3D reviewing the latest 3D releases and IMAX, she has also had several articles published in various publications including the first edition of SFW Magazine. In 2015 she became an Award Winning Blogger and also has her website listed as one of the UK’s Top 10 Film Blogs.
