[Pink Eye]
Plot:Pink Eye is set in a small town in upstate New York, at a prison-like, dilapidated insane asylum where secret drug testing has gone inexplicably wrong.

Cast:Melissa Bacelar, Joshua Nelson, Joshua James, Ed Avila, Emma Hinz, James E. Smith, J. Scott Green, Bridget Megan Clark, Frank Franconeri, Alan Rowe Kelly, Raine Brown, Jeff Spinner, Jocelyn Barker, JessAnn Smith, Nathan Faudree.

My Thoughts:Not really a good try.

Review:"Pink Eye", an indie effort from James Tucker and Joshua Nelson takes every horror cliche and rolls it all up into one big mess. The film follows a mental clinic (or atleast that's what the shady people who run it claim it is), where some crazy experiments are locked up. One of which being a poetic man named Edgar. Soon....Edgar manages to escape, and he wreaks havoc on a smalltown in upstate New York.

Can he be stopped before it's too late? This is what the film presents us with, and it's pretty much the same old, same old. Beyond Melissa Bacelar's performance as Delilah, and some funny language from the kids in the movie...this film fails on all levels. It just presents a tired, old, cliched storyline. Evil white guys experimenting on people, the experiments escape, kill those who aren't in the proverbial loop, and then escape the building to kill more people.

And we're given a group of main characters, in this case an all-american family, who are just sitting ducks until this escaped loon shows up to take them out. I've seen this in so many other horror films, and the antagonist has been everything from a person, to a group of people, to a mutant tasmanian devil, or some zombies. I thought the film gave a good effort gore wise, but story wise, it just didn't have what it took to hold my interest.

The film follows too many of the typical patterns and you can pretty much see where it's headed, and how it will conclude. There's nothing worse than a predictable horror movie, and "Pink Eye" was as predictable as they come. The story bored me so much, that I was left waiting for one of the films youngest characters to come on screen and blurt out some sharp, profanity-laced dialogue again.

I have a sense of humor for kids who curse or have a smart-aleck streak, it's one of the funniest moments ever most of the time, even in a bad movie. It was actually "Pink Eye"s only saving grace, because the story was going nowhere. The character of Edgar wasn't even a good villain. The guy spouts off all kinds of poetic one-liners as he murders people. It's cool for about three minutes, but by act three....it just feels like it needs to end.

There is one twist however which comes late in act three, where a kidnapping replaces what one is sure to think will be a death scene. Other than that, this picture just has nothing going for it. It offers nothing new, nothing interesting, and overall nothing too much to like about it.

Positives:Melissa Bacelar's performance, the smart-alecky kid.

Negatives:Bad story, too many cliches, and an overall lack of entertainment value and intrigue.

Overall:One out of four stars.





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