MY LITTLE EYE

Five young people decide to participate in what they believe to be a kind of television show that is only broadcast over the internet; the prize is fame and especially a million dollars. The rules are simple: they must live for six months in an isolated house, a sort of "Big Brother" with only one big difference: as soon as one person withdraws, everyone loses the prize. Little by little, conflicts begin to emerge between the different personalities and opposing needs, tension grows until one by one the protagonists are killed by a mysterious entity... "My Little Eye" is a small English production, a classic teen-horror crafted for the younger audience and directed with a certain skill by Marc Evans. The film is entirely shot in digital and in first-person perspective, the point of view is that of the cameras scattered throughout the house, which broadcast online 24 hours a day the lives of the five young people. The viewer is thus immediately "forced" to transform into a sort of "digital voyeur" who observes the unfolding of events through the distorted lens of virtual reality. At first everything seems calm, too calm, then little by little, as the days go by, the contestants begin to reveal their deepest fears, allowing these to backfire on them. Evans continually plays on multiple shots, image dissolves, infrared night shots but it is probably the "sounds" that best of all convey the tension: rustles, zooms, small cameras that move and get confused with the real creaks of the decrepit floors of the old house. In the first part, there are no gruesome images, the director prefers to focus on quick disturbing shots, dark and almost oppressive colors, and a truly obsessive musical commentary. In the finale, however, the film takes the classic "slasher" path, the massacre begins, there is a pleasant gore escalation for strong stomachs, but the real nervous tension is abandoned to indulge, perhaps a little too gratuitously, in the entire classic repertoire of the genre: strangulations, hangings, decapitations, etc. In conclusion, a film from which one should not expect a deep psychological characterization of the characters, nor interesting food for thought (obvious and rather "easy" the criticism of modern society all based on money and fame), but only good entertainment with some healthy scares, nothing more... but also nothing less!