An odd but lively mixture of slasher tropes and slacker comedy, about a digital voyeur who may have spied on a female serial killer
The chasm between digital life and meatspace may be the only truly new subject cinema has had over the last 20 years. Of all the current angles on it, Ramin Niami’s bric-a-brac assemblage of webcam thriller, sitcom and slasher film is certainly one of the more original – even if it doesn’t finally hold together.
Dakota Shapiro plays Henry, an improbably handsome voyeur and shut-in who has barricaded himself into a room in the Los Angeles apartment he has inherited, and spends his time watching women on a set of webcams he has hacked. There’s musician Sky, webcam girl Tess, new immigrant Linnea … and Henry talks at them all as if they’re old friends, when he’s not nervously wolfing downers in response to anything that upsets him.
The chasm between digital life and meatspace may be the only truly new subject cinema has had over the last 20 years. Of all the current angles on it, Ramin Niami’s bric-a-brac assemblage of webcam thriller, sitcom and slasher film is certainly one of the more original – even if it doesn’t finally hold together.
Dakota Shapiro plays Henry, an improbably handsome voyeur and shut-in who has barricaded himself into a room in the Los Angeles apartment he has inherited, and spends his time watching women on a set of webcams he has hacked. There’s musician Sky, webcam girl Tess, new immigrant Linnea … and Henry talks at them all as if they’re old friends, when he’s not nervously wolfing downers in response to anything that upsets him.
- 8/17/2021
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
Henry (Dakota Shapiro) has had a difficult life. The abuse he endured from his father made it so he can barely leave the house. Talking to strangers (let alone women) is a non-starter. And he can’t even open the door to his dad’s old room for fear of thinking he might somehow be inside despite promising never to come back. Henry’s existence is thus confined to the den. He sleeps on the couch, takes late-night walks to stay isolated, and sublets his old room to Eric (Luke Cook), an aspiring actor from Australia, to pay the bills his lack of a job cannot. So his days are spent alone on his computer with “friends”: six unsuspecting women he watches through hacked webcams.
He’s the so-called Eye Without a Face, as writer-director Ramin Niami’s latest is titled. Henry “cares” about these women and believes himself...
He’s the so-called Eye Without a Face, as writer-director Ramin Niami’s latest is titled. Henry “cares” about these women and believes himself...
- 8/10/2021
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Stars: Dakota Shapiro, Luke Cook, Vlada Verevko, Rebecca Berg, Ashley Elyse Rogers, Evangeline Neuhart, Benedikt Sebastian, Sarah Marie, Patrick Zeller, Spencer Trinwith, Danielle Hope Abrom | Written and Directed by Ramin Niami
Opening with an incredibly creepy scene featuring a woman walking slowly and methodically down a hallway, weapon in hand, shouting out for Henry – swiftly pulling back a sheet to… Hold on, let’s back up a minute. Because that’s what Eye Without a Face does – showing back to an earlier point in time as we meet Henry, an agoraphobic and anxious young man living in Los Angeles, who hacks into the webcams of various young women who inhabit the city. He watches over them in their daily lives, seeing himself as their guardian angel. Or is that guardian creep?
We’re in Rear Window territory with Eye Without a Face, though the plot device of a camera pointed...
Opening with an incredibly creepy scene featuring a woman walking slowly and methodically down a hallway, weapon in hand, shouting out for Henry – swiftly pulling back a sheet to… Hold on, let’s back up a minute. Because that’s what Eye Without a Face does – showing back to an earlier point in time as we meet Henry, an agoraphobic and anxious young man living in Los Angeles, who hacks into the webcams of various young women who inhabit the city. He watches over them in their daily lives, seeing himself as their guardian angel. Or is that guardian creep?
We’re in Rear Window territory with Eye Without a Face, though the plot device of a camera pointed...
- 8/6/2021
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Exclusive: Sean Kleier (Odd Mom Out) is set to star opposite Suraj Sharma (Life Of Pi) and Pallavi Sharda (Tom & Jerry) in the Netflix comedy Wedding Season. He joins the previously announced Rizwan Manji and Ari Afsar, as Deadline first revealed. Written by Shiwani Srivastava and directed by Tom Dey (Shanghai Noon), the film follows two Indian-Americans who pretend to date in order to survive a summer of weddings, but find themselves falling for each other as they struggle to balance who they are with who their parents want them to be. Kleier will play “Nick” who is Priya’s (Ari Afsar) fiancé and the newest family member who tries a little too hard to fit into the Indian culture. Shooting is scheduled to start later this month in Toronto. Swati Shetty is producing for her Samosa Stories banner with Brian Grazer and Ron Howard for Imagine Entertainment, alongside...
- 4/15/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Below, watch a teaser for the Rush: Inspired by Battlefield TV series, premiering on Verizon's go90 digital streaming service, Tuesday, September 20, 2016. The new show is inspired by the popular Battlefield™ video game franchise. Studio71's Dan Weinstein executive produces, with Gary Binkow and Amee Dolleman producing.Rush: Inspired by Battlefield comes from internet sci-fi/action filmmakers, Corridor Digital’s Sam Gorski and Niko Pueringer and writer Andrew Allen. The cast includes Lou Ferrigino, Jr., Mark Ford, Jeff Schine, Vlada Verevko, Stephen Chang, Aqueela Zoll, Brak Little, and Steven Ogg. Get more details from this press release.Read More…...
- 8/31/2016
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
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