Black Eve

Canada 2010
produced by
Ryan M. Andrews, Neil Green, Rob Sweet for Blackguardism Creations, Fusion Films
directed by Ryan M. Andrews
starring Eva James, Neil Green, Veronika London, Kassandra Santos, Thet Win, Hayley Toane, Emily Schooley, Declan McCarthy, Marina Manushenko, Jenny Mac, Jo Jo Karume, Peter Jackson (II), Timothy Paul McCarthy, Scott Vancea, Suzanne Serwatuk, Camden Shaw, Mila Star, Rob Sweet, Kate Goodwin, Sasha Glitter, Justice Declun, Derek Holland, Margaret Jeronimo
story by Ryan M.Andrews, Neil Green, screenplay by Ryan M. Andrews, music by David O'Hearn, special effects by Steven Dawley, special effects makeup by Carlos Henriques

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Halloween, an abandoned mall, and a young guy (Thet Win) who just happens to have the keys for it - if this combination does not suggest a big and exclusive party, I don't know what does.

All guests seem to be amusing themselves, all but wallflowerish Chris (Eva James) - which is why one of the girls at the party figures it would be a good idea to drug her to knock her out, and Chris loses consciousness right in one of the toilet stalls to sleep through the whole party, and noone even notices.

Sleeping through the party locked inside a toilet is of course not the worst thing that can happen to one, at least not when there's a killer (Neil Green) on the loose outside, who has the bad habit to lure teen after teen away from the flock to slaughter them brutally.

The next morning, Chris wakes up to stumble upon a corpse pretty much right away, and the more she walks through the mall to find a way out, the more corpses she recovers (about a dozen or so). Now that's bad enough, but what's worse is that she has to find out she is actually a psychic, and every time she touches a corpse or a murder weapon (the killer used quite an array of them), she is confronted by memories of the violent deaths of these people. Interestingly, there is a little boy (Declan McCarthy) in there with her, for whom she feels responsible before too long, and it turns out the killer hasn't lost the building, either ...

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The film starts out pretty much as your standard slasher: There are teens who have little other than sex on their minds, and there's a killer slaughtering everybody straying too far from the flock - and there are many who stray. Sure, the death scenes are on the imaginative and on the gory side to keep genre fans happy, but other than that, there's nothing too special about Black Eve ... until half an hour into the film, when the film abandons its linear narrative, introduces the psychic subplot as well as two framing devices (one in an interrogation room, one during a psychiatrist session), and suddenly tells its story in multiple confusing and jumbled up flashbacks - and while this might sound less than promising, it works like a charm, light-footedly squeezing new life out of an done-to-death plotline and making old ideas seem fresh again. Sure, the ultimate solution of this film might not exactly come unexpected, but the way that leads to it is quite fascinating.

Definitely worth a look!

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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