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All Eyes
USA 2022
produced by Emily Calhoun, Adam Greenlee, Alex Greenlee, Todd Greenlee, Janice Pellam, Laurie Cummings, Tab Pierce, Jeff Greenlee, Lisa Greenlee for Homefront Pictures
directed by Todd Greenlee
starring Jasper Hammer, Ben Hall, Danielle Evon Ploeger, Nick Ballard, Laurie Cummings (voice), Jeremy Parr (voice), Claire Kaplan (voice), Michael Fox, Jesse Stevens, Becky Ross, Danielle Roach, Alex Greenlee, Jeff Greenlee, Lisa Greenlee, Zachary Perry, Andrew Rathgeber (voice), Jake Akuna, Emily Calhoun, Skyler Davenport, Jay Dee, Joe Bianco (voice), Erin DeCoursey (voice), Patrick Northrip, Kelsey Hightower (voice), Will Hutchison (voice), Bill Mecca (voice), Maurice Wan (voice)
written by Alex Greenlee, music by Paxin Tenebris, special effects by Jeff Greenlee, Dwayne Martin, James Wray, Kela Kelln
review by Mike Haberfelner
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After a phone-in guest (Nick Ballard) has apparently shot someone dead
on his podcast, host Allen (Jasper Hammer) is fired from his job, and
while he decides to drink his pain away (Danielle Evon Ploeger) has a
better idea, who not do a story that's so strong that the station just has
to take him back. And among the many letters from hopefuls who want a spot
on his show, she also picks just the right guy, Don (Ben Hall), who wants
Allen to join him on a monster hunt in honour of his deceased wife. It's a
tailor made story as it's got heart and human interest wrapped into a good
bit of sensationalism. Thing is, when Allen shows up at Don's, he doesn't
find the old man very warm, and he comes across as a backwoods conspiracy
theorists, living on a god-forsaken farm in the middle of nowhere, USA.
And the monster hunt is not what it's made out to be either, it's pretty
much like fishing, sitting on folding chairs with a few beers waiting for
the monster to come out of the woods for the laid out bait - only the
monster never shows. And yet Don believes in his quest, why else would he
have the premises and even his house booby-trapped. Allen on the other
hand is ready to give up when they happen upon a bunch of men and women in
hazmat suits apparently after the same thing they're after - and they're
not exactly friendly. And trying to deal with them, Don accidently sets
his booby traps in kill-mode and is promptly killed, leaving it to Allen
to fend for himself, with only some sketch notes on how to avoid getting
killed. And this is of course when the monster shows up as well ... All
Eyes is basically a fun monster movie, first and foremost maybe
because it doesn't follow any genre formula too closely - so much so that
the monster appears for the first time relatively late in the finale - but
spins its own original yarn that at times owes more to early slapstick
cinema - like when the house's booby traps start to attack Allen - than
anything even remotely to do with creature features. But that all this
works nevertheless is thanks to a very clever script, a directorial effort
high on tension and suspense but not devoid of irony, and a strong small
ensemble cast - and the outcome is just a very entertaining, enjoyably
unusual genre movie.
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