KEEP BOTH EYES OPEN!!!!
Added 10/27/2009
Fans of the "Da Vinci Code" and "Angels & Demons" will appreciate Nick Willing's nifty little chiller that ceners on a London murder investigation uncovers occult symbols, Rosicrucian alchemy and blasphemous heresies that unfold when a hypnotherapist (Goran Visnjic) tries to help a female cop (Shirley Henderson) stop smoking and is asked to hypnotize a mute child who was kidnapped but escaped from an unknown assailant. This precisely made film with careful composition and terrific performances builds tremendous tension that leads to an outrageous climax. I thought about this scary little film for days afterwards.
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DOCTOR SLEEPLESS...
Added 9/3/2009
An insomniac hypnotherapist (Goran Visnjic from "ER" and Practical Magic) teams up w/ an intrepid police detective (Shirley "Moaning Myrtle" Henderson!) to catch a sly, ingenius child-murderer who just might be immortal. CLOSE YOUR EYES is a solid, well-told tale of supernatural suspense w/ an eerie atmosphere of unknown, occultic dread. Fiona Shaw (yep, aunt Petunia from Harry Potter!) plays an unusual, wheelchair-bound character w/ a secret. If you enjoy mystery, horror, or stories that are out of the ordinary, then CYE should do you true...
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Mind Thriller
Added 4/7/2009
What secrets does the human mind surpress? What if a person has an unusual gift, i.e. he can see images in another peron's mind? Impossible, you say! The hypnotherapist in this film does exactly that while attempting to help a detective stop smoking - a young girl who is floating beneath the surface of a stream; she had been kidnapped by a ritual killer, she escaped her captor, but, she has not spoken a word about this expierence. If you are a fan of psychological drama and the vageries of the human mind, this film is for you.
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Don't Close Your Eyes Or You'll Fall Asleep
Added 4/17/2008
Somebody just woke me up to give this review. I fell asleep watching this movie because it was so boring, but I did rewind to finish it so I could give a fair review. It's a story about a hypnotist who is helping the cops track down a serial killer. He can see what others see. Sounds great right? Trust me, it's not great at all. I am glad to give this movie it's first 1 star review. If it was up to me I would give it 0 stars. The acting was horrible. The story was silly. It wasn't scary or suspenseful. The ending was so bad that it made me chuckle. Not to mention that the final twist was very predictable. I would have expected something much better from BBC than this failure at a horror movie. Don't waste your time seeing this film. In fact, don't waste your time reading any more of my words about how bad it is. Keep moving along... nothing to see here. I think the writer and director had their eyes closed when they created this garbage.
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Disappointing Anglo giallo
Added 2/17/2008
Close Your Eyes aka Doctor Sleep is a rare British stab at a giallo that gets off to a promising start that it never really builds on with an opening hypnotic dream scene that's the kind of thing that Dario Argento should have done in The Stendhal Syndrome (indeed, in his prime Argento could have made this fly). Unfortunately, aside from introducing the two main characters it has little to do with the plot and its visual imagination is never repeated. Still, there's plenty of promise in the premise as Goran Visnjic's hypnotist with a past and psychic abilities is blackmailed by Shirley Henderson's cop into trying to get the only surviving victim of a child killer to talk. Unfortunately it's one of those films that gradually gets less interesting and more predictable as it goes along - if you can't see the heavily telegraphed twist-in-a-tail coda coming a mile off, do let us know how much you enjoy it when you get round to seeing your second movie. Opening aside, it also lacks the flourish it needs to stand out. Even one character meeting a nasty end involving a few incisions in his chest and a live rat is rendered almost sedate.
The three leads never really convince. Visnjic certainly tries his best but his range is rather too limited to make more than a stock stereotype out of his role. A badly miscast Shirley Henderson may have dropped the irritating girlie voice but still makes about as credible a cop as Mike Mazurki would a prima ballerina while even Paddy Considine can't get a real grip on his anorakish internet supernatural expert. Ironically the best performance comes from Miranda Otto in a fairly disposable role as Visnjic's wife, the one character who really convinces despite being firmly relegated to the sidelines. A step down from director Nick Willing's promising but not quite successful Photographing Fairies, it's easy to see why after much initial hype during production this stayed on the shelf so long.
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