Five Across the Eyes (2006)

Directors:

Greg Swinson
Ryan Thiessen

Writers:

Marshall Hicks (story)
Greg Swinson (screenplay)

Genre:

Horror

Tagline:

Getting home by curfew is gonna be hell.

Plot:

"On their way home from a high school football game, five teenage girls become hopelessly lost. When they stop to get directions at a desolate store...

Plot Keywords:

Teenage Girl | Car Chase | Death | All Female Cast | Crying

Cast

Sandra Paduch	...	Isabella
Danielle Lilley	...	Jamie
Mia Yi	...	Melanie
Angela Brunda	...	Caroline
Jennifer Barnett	...	Stephanie
Veronica Garcia	...	The Driver
Dave Jarnigan	...	Store Clerk
Keith Smith	...	Dead Body
Abby Vessell	...	Dead Body
Jane Swinson	...	Dead Body

Runtime:

USA:95 min | Argentina:95 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Argentina:16 | UK:18 | Australia:R | New Zealand:R18 | Germany:18 (cut)

Filming Locations:

Morristown, Tennessee, USA

Company:

Trauma One Entertainment

Trivia:

The film was shot in and around Morristown, TN. The same town that The Evil Dead (1981)was shot in 26 years earlier.

Quotes:

Melanie: Caroline.. Jamie needs our help. We need to worry about her right now. Not Stephanie.
Caroline: Stop acting like Stephanie's dead.
Melanie: I don't wanna do this, but maybe it's best if we just assume the worst. Okay, I need your help here.
[pause]
Melanie: Don't worry, Stef will be okay.
Caroline: Don't go and say stuff like that. That's being contradictory and it confuses me.

Girls screaming on a video phone

How, in the name of all that's holy, did this film ever get distribution? It looks as if it has been shot on someone's mobile phone and takes the screaming girl victim scenario to whole new depths. They literally scream for the full 90 minutes of the movie. And that's all they do. There is no plot, no tension, no characters, and not a lot of acting. Just screaming and more screaming.

I gave up after fifteen minutes and fast-wound through it to see if anything happened. It doesn't - except for screaming, of course. Odlly enough, the act of going through it on fast forward highlights another problem - there is no camera-work to speak of. Every shot looks like every other shot - middle distance, one angle, dull, dull, DULL.

It's not so bad it's good. It's just plain bad.