A
businessman named David Goodman (Edward
Furlong) is almost chosen for his career
as a PR executive for his job but however
they chose someone else by the name of
Tony Sturkel (Tobias Mehler) so David is
feeling down about all of this and goes
to the liquor store to drown out his
depression.
However, he spots a punk vandalising his
car with spray paint and sprays him in
the eyes that he gets sent to the
hospital and is legally blind.
He gets a call on his answering machine
from a strange doctor named Guillermo
List (Michael Madsen) that he can get his
visions back to start his career again
but he realises that he wants his soul
too which is the cause from a demonic
looking cane that keeps his eye sight
going and slowly loses his sight when he
doesn't have it.
He is also slowly turning evil and
possessive too with the cane and is
responsible for doing away some people
around his area and his wife Lisa
(Chandra West) tries to figure out these
issues and tries to save David's soul as
well.
One of the best
indie flicks of 2006 as many of them
hardly carry a budget but this one is not
too bad. Sure there are poorly done
special effects but some of them look
interesting too.
It's horror with a touch of fantasy and
sci-fi too and great performances by the
whole cast too adding supernatural and
some psychological moments too in a Shining
like fashion.
The acting is
terrifically performed with alot of
Vancouver locals.
It's nice to see former kid actor Edward
Furlong playing an adult role as a
businessman who gets himself blind. He
knew his part inside out and was
excellent by slowly turning evil as he
could have won an award for his role.
Chandra West has the great looks as
his wife and was smooth with her
performance and showed nice energetic
skills too.
Michael Madsen was the perfect
tempting antichrist as he knew how to be
wickedly charming only to prove that he's
deadly and evil.
Richard Stroh looked nasty and
really knew how to come across as
intimidating too by being the
antichrist's assistant.
Tobias Mehler really pulled it off
playing a businessman who thinks he;s
higher than anyone else as he brought
alot to the story too.
Supporting actress
Sandra
Steier shows off her breasts during
a vicious lustful scene in the film.
A cane is stabbed
through a person's heart.
Due to it's low
budget Michael Bafaro seems to
bring life to his direction in this indie
film adding some great fantasy too.
There was a good shot on lead actor Edward
Furlong walking out of a room
looking depressed when he found out some
bad news.
Also, Furlong does real well by
behaving like a basket case near a piano
and a good dialogue with Chandra West.
Furlong reacted very well when he
sees that his vehicle is being spray
painted and a good shot on his eyes being
sprayed and Furlong is really
great by the reactions at being in pain
by this as well as an excellent
suspenseful close up on his white eyes
too showing that he was blinded by this.
He also looks believeable when he is
blind and feeling his way around and
shows good expressions as if he is really
blind.
There's a good shot on Richard
Stroh's face when Furlong
opens his front door as he looks
believeably wicked.
There's a nice special effects shot on Furlong
being attacked by these creatures on a
wall as he looks like he really is in
pain.
We also spot a vicious lustful scene
between him and West which looks
quite demonic like.
There's a good evil reaction on Furlong
towards Sandra Steier when
he comes on strong towards her
Steier was great at being
emotionally hurt afterwards.
Furlong shows nice dizzy expressions
when he has trouble with his visuals
during many moments in the film.
There was a nice dialogue between
Furlong and Michael Madsen sitting
on a bench in the night as the setting
looked very horror like.
There's good dark shots on small actress Lexie
Huber (My co-star from Horror
Seasons) when she is looking for
her dog wandering around her house and
really knew how to panick after she spots
Furlong with his cold
expressions towards her and really does a
brutal kill on her with menacing
expressions.
West looked great standing by a
bridge and heaving the demonic looking
cane but the effects looked fake when the
cane was spinning around before landing
into a river.
The best dialogue was between West with
Furlong when she tries to confront
him about his evil behavior as it looks
very Shining like and Furlong
really had that Jack Nicholson
appeal for this moment and was great at
attacking her and she knew how to act
tough for this moment too.
There was a great shot on Stroh
approaching West and then a
great shot on his fist.
There's a descent camera shot panning on West
lying unconcious on the floor during a
cult ceremony and Madsen really
knew how to pull some energy by trying to
manipulate Furlong into driving
the cane through her heart as Furlong
showed nice consuing expressions
wondering if he will actually kill her.
We see great shots on Furlong
and West running through a
forest with ghostly demonic effects as
well as the creatures attacking
Furlong too which looked very
suspenseful with the shots on him.
The best direction was with Furlong,
West and Madsen with
their powerful dialogue sequences towards
each other near a bridge and a great
battle between Furlong and Madsen
with nice cheesy effects involved.
The music was very
nicely done by John Sereda as we
hear some nice chanting sounds and some
cheesy music too but it was cool sounding
regardless.
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