 | | | | White Of The Eye [1986] |  | Director: Donald Cammell
Actors: David Keith, Cathy Moriarty, Alan Rosenberg, Art Evans, Michael Greene
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: Video
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (4 reviews)
Sales Rank: 6655
Format: Dolby, Pal, Surround Sound
Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Media: VHS Tape
Running Time: 107 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Discs: 1
EAN: 5014780372085
ASIN: B00004CKAJ
Release Date: July 5, 1999
Theatrical Release Date: 1986
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A unique thriller August 29, 2008
Paul White(David Keith) is a devoted husband and father, and is well loved in the community he lives in. He works as an installer of highly advanced satelite television equipment in the homes of wealthy citizens.
Meanwhile, a group of detectives are investigating a series of horrific ritualistic murders, and suspicion falls upon Paul. Could this loving family man really be the perpetrator of these crimes, or is there someone else behind it?
This is an excellent variation on a well worn theme, as Donald Cammell creates a film that is both beautiful to look at, and offers a unique perspective on the slasher genre. Keith gives a remarkable performance as the perfect husband/father with skeletons in the cupboard, and Cathy Moriarty is equally good as his concerned wife.
The only small gripe I have is the ending. It seems so out of place from the rest of the film that it does dissapoint slightly, but there have been so many wonderful moments up to that point, it can be easily forgiven.
A fascinating, unique film, that has the ability to dazzle the senses, and leave a lasting impression on this viewer at least. Unfortunately, Cammell commited suicide in 1996, but at least we have films such as this to remember him by. Watch and enjoy
The Eye's Have It June 20, 2008
White of the Eye is an extremely interesting film, were a happliy married women discovers her doting husband is a serial killer. Whilst the husband clearly holds strong family values and strives to be a good husband, he's also deeply un-hinged with a strange spiritual cosmic view with regards to existence. This is surreal stuff full of interesting dialoque and unusual imagery. Shamefully overlooked.
Superb movie April 14, 2008
This film is brilliant. It seems like an 80s slasher movie, but something really weird happens and the film is much bigger, it touches on all sorts of issues. The director also did Performance (with Nic Roeg), and Demon Seed. It's totally different to either of those. I can't recommend it highly enough, just make sure to go in without any expectations and you'll enjoy it.
Challenging, provocative and hugely enjoyable July 30, 2000
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a great movie. Charting a particularly difficult marital crisis, the film addresses subjects of love, honesty and loyalty. Is it possible to love someone unconditionally - no matter what? How much can you really know someone you are married to? At what point are you emotionally betrayed by a lover?The movie follows a typical 80's slasher framework for the first two acts. This cliched, predictable structure allows plenty of opportunity to explore the issues mentioned above. In the third act, beginning with a grisly bathroom discovery, the slasher movie genre stutters. Expectations here would be for a frantic, exciting chase, with the tables ultimately turned on the killer. We don't get that - really - and this has led some to judge the film as a failure. Instead, Cammell explores more fully the relationship between the husband and wife. In a hugely unsettling sequence we see their original courtship, the closeness between them now and their reluctance to function in the world apart from each other. It might be risky, but Cammell pulls it off - just - to make a film that is compelling, disturbing and absurdly romantic. The epilogue, on the surface lifted directly from the 80's straight-to-video handbook, contains an elegance and poignancy which throws this movie in a wonderfully uplifting light. Performances from the two principles, particularly Moriarty, are peerless. Cinematography and editing are of a similar high standard to Cammell's other work. For some, the movie will be stylistically a period piece, but it is none the worse for this. If you want a typical slasher movie, get Halloween instead. However if you can see past the cliched 80's format, occasionally awkward arhouse pretensions and extremely challenging subversion of genre, "White of the Eye" is one of the best-observed relationship dramas you are likely to see this, or any, year.
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