“See No Evil,” a World Wrestling Entertainment venture in the cinema, has everything you’d expect in a horror movie from the world of wrestling showbiz.
It’s got fake kicks, fake punches and shots to the groin. It’s got exaggerated reactions to the fake kicks, fake punches and shots to the groin.
And eye gouging. It’s all about the eye-gouging.
The wrestler Kane (Glen Jacobs) plays the remorseless, relentless and pretty much motiveless killer in this slasher/dead teenager movie. He doesn’t have many lines. He just hurls meat hooks and manhandles assorted nameless nobodies as he picks them off.
The setup? They’re juvenile delinquents, male and female, put to work to clean up a burned-out hotel and turn it into a shelter for abused women. There’s a violent pimp, a thief, a computer hacker, an animal rights activist (?!), a snooty shoplifter, a street chick – eight little victims in all.
And since they’ve never read Agatha Christie’s “Ten Little Indians,” or watched any movies set at Camp Crystal Lake, they don’t realize they’re doomed.
Not the worst horror movie ever made but not even remotely in the class of the most grueling of the last couple of years – “Hostel” and “High Tension.”
“See No Evil” | * RATING
R for strong gruesome violence and gore throughout, language, sexual content and some drug use|1 hour, 25 minutes|HORROR|Directed by Gregory Dark; starring Kane, Christina Vidal, Michael J. Pagan, Samantha Noble, Steven Vidler|Opened Friday at area theaters.
