 Thanks for checking out this movie review video. So this is for the 1975 Italian giallo film eyeball and it feels Nice to get back to something familiar and by that I mean this is an umberto lensy film And I've actually reviewed a bunch of umberto lensy films. Sorry about that Actually, I had back here right there the lensy baker collection, which I have reviews for all of those That's so sweet so perverse a quiet place to kill a knife of ice and or gas moe So I did all those in addition to seven bloodstained orchids. So those are all on my channel I think I actually created an entire playlist for umberto lensy films and this one will be going into that as well So I'm familiar with this style So I watched those other films not long ago So to watch this after not watching a lensy film in quite a while. It was it felt comfortable I was like, yeah, yes, I remember this style and when I say style I mean he does a lot of zooming and he also has a tendency to do Every now and then I think he just did it maybe once within this film the thing that Mario Bava had kind of pioneered I believe he pioneered it But he used it a lot which is like kind of having the camera on a character and then Rotating it kind of like semi circle around that character either from the front to the side or back or the other way around So he definitely did that at least one point in this film and he's done it in other films as well But that's very much a boba thing Anyway, like I said directed by umberto lensy He also did seven bloodstained orchids or gas moe a quiet place to kill knife of ice So sweet so perverse spasmo, which I think will be the next giallo I review actually so I'll be getting even more lensy eaten alive Cannibal furrow ghost house and hitcher in the dark those are not all of his films But it's just a sampling of the films and I would like to see all of those Written by lensy as well as Felix to sell who didn't write any other scripts. So One and done for to sell now. You may notice that the guy who plays Reverend Bronson in this film looks familiar That's because that is George regard who has been in a bunch of other giallo films such as A lizard in a woman's skin all the colors of the dark death walks on high heels the case of the bloody iris and knife of ice So obviously he had worked with lensy before This film is also known as red cats in a glass maze gotta love that title because it's just ridiculous But I love, you know, I love those weird ridiculous giallo titles. I'm all about it. Love it so the way this film starts obviously you're seeing Alma at the Airport I believe yes I believe this is the airport and she seems really spaced out and I think that the reason that they kind of introduce Alma in that way Obviously that is Mark's wife is because who he's cheating on is because I think it's supposed to set it up as in a Red herring for like she's kind of losing it She's kind of crazy because Mark has that conversation with Paul that later in the film about how she's kind of had like a mental break He needs her to go to a facility to get well basically and then you start finding out that oh It's potential that Alma is in Barcelona, which is where they are in this not actually filmed in Italy It's in Barcelona Spain And then you're supposed to think as Paul let had intended obviously that Alma was there carrying out the murders when actually It would just end up incriminating mark so That is why I think it was important that they kind of showed Alma spacing out Because it lays the track for the audience to believe that she's not right that there's something going on And then that could lead to murder because with these films. That's kind of how they did things The Spanish tour guide Martinez is something else. He loves his scared to eggs That's the other thing he kept doing like them the little wind up mouse the little wind up spider Got a real kick out of trying to scare people and I kind of thought that he was so off that he may have ended up being the killer So I did kind of guess Paul at much later in the film But very early in the film I was kind of guessing Martinez because he was such like a peripheral character But they showed him enough and in weird ways. I was like maybe it's Martinez for that reason But it wasn't but he's an interesting character I liked him in it one of those quirky characters that you always end up with in giallo films and one of the reasons I love giallo So mark showing up right after the first murder is supposed to cast an immediate suspicion on him Then they point him point to him as an immoral person as he explains that he's going to be leaving his wife for Paulette who obviously at that point is his secretary So the old trope of the boss sleeping with the secretary We got that going on and obviously Paulette is fine with this She wants to be with him, but she also Plays like she feels kind of bad And I think that conversation is important because it kind of establishes that Mark's not all that great of a guy So it's supposed to cast suspicious on hint or suspicion on him But at the same time showing that Paulette is acting like a very nice person and say oh, I really love you But I don't want you to you know divorce your wife and leave her for me And I feel bad so you're supposed to be endeared to Paulette and think she's a good person therefore Eliminating her from your list of possible suspects and Also the fact that they make her the love interest who usually is not the killer in these films The love interest usually ends up being a secondary character that's very important to the story and is almost like a second main character and For that reason you just wouldn't assume that that's going to be the killer So good job on kind of laying that red herring down there. I Like the lights and quick cuts that they use when they had the horror tunnel scene that leads to that stabbing within it I kind of added to the intensity of the actual stabbing when it happens Though all those quick cuts kind of disorienting the flashing lights the kind of scary crazy faces It just adds to kind of the terror of the moment and I like that they did that. Good job Lindsay Mr. Hamilton's odd behavior with the straight razor is a big red herring moment They threw a lot of these kind of like random red herring moments into the film the one where he was shaving And then he's just like staring a little bit while he's holding his razor then he goes and like Watches his daughter Jenny just like sleeping and it's kind of like it's supposed to be creepy It's supposed to make you think oh, maybe he's thinking about killing her He could be the killer so just another one of those red herring moments, which like I said they put a lot in here Yes, by all means handle a bloody knife. You found on the floor mark idiot Mark is an idiot when he goes to Alma's room at the hotel and is let in and he Finds the bloody knife on the floor He just picks it up and it's like now your fingerprints are on a dude and they did do fingerprinting back then Nothing with DNA at that point is definitely too early for that but fingerprinting they were doing so you're an idiot mark total idiot It was just kind of a funny thing because while it was happening. I'm like Mark what the hell but obviously that whole thing was a setup. He was supposed to find it He was supposed to basically incriminate himself. Yeah Why does Reverend Bronson pop up everywhere? I think kind of a reason for Reverend Bronson just continually popping up in the most random places was because a I think I it seemed like he was kind of going along with the tourist group but there are other times he just pops up randomly and I think that was intentionally there to kind of cast some suspicion on him as well as potentially being the killer because if you've seen enough Enough giallo films being a man of the cloth does not Disclude you from being a murderer. In fact, that's used a lot of times in giallo films, including ones I've reviewed very recently No cuts on Ronnie. I'm sorry now cuts on Ronnie's hand That's yet another red herring after the one girl was killed at the farm and the pigs started to eat her I guess that's what that looked like was going on And they point out that Ronnie has these cuts on his hand all of a sudden It's just another one of those red herring moments that you're supposed to point out and be like, oh, he could be the killer now The business with Alma supposedly being in Barcelona But not being seen by Mark is suspicious and it made me think that it was all a ruse That's when I started to really Feel like there was someone else doing this and that's when I thought well It's probably Paulette because she I assume she had some sort of feelings about the fact that he was still technically with Alma and I think Maybe she also Feeling bad about the whole thing was like, you know what he shouldn't be too timing his wife And so I thought for that reason she was trying to set him up basically and maybe come after him to kill him But obviously that's not what the end ends up being But that's when I started to suspect Paulette because who is close enough to Mark That would be able to set him up with those types of things and have the knowledge about Alma and everything So I would pretty early was kind of like yeah, it's probably Paulette So yeah Not sure I believe mark about how he found Alma with the bloody knife and the eye They definitely do make it seem suspicious My thought was that mark I was thinking that mark was going to end up actually having murdered Alma But not ending up murdering anyone on the tour. So I ended up being wrong about that obviously Alma was actually still alive. So I don't know what the deal with that whole situation was About her being dead. I Don't understand. Oh, no, I'm sorry that ended up not being all but that was what's her name Terry Moore I think was the it was the the person who was dead Yeah Sorry got confused for a minute. That's what she all those will do to you Lisa's death is a pretty solid one There is a decent throat slit and that at that point of the film But for the most part the kills really aren't that great in this film in my opinion I mean, they do a good job with the music they do a good job with the camera work and everything and you know The stabbing the stabbing motions look real enough, but there's just not enough blood There's just not enough like up close except for that throat slit It just leaves a bit to be desired for me another red herring with Reverend Bronson showing up at the hospital and Naiba getting chased by the killer right after Reverend Bronson shows up That is obviously supposed to make the audience think that Reverend Bronson is the killer But it's this weird coincidence where Reverend Bronson realizes. Oh, I should leave these flowers here and go do something else first Just one of those things convenient Why is the killer all of a sudden unable to finish the job? That's one thing. I didn't understand in the very beginning Paulette is good at just killing people and in pretty obvious places and not getting caught Finishing the job really fast, but then all of a sudden as the film goes on as we get towards the end She's trying to kill people, but she can't so I'm wondering what the disconnect is there of her being so good at killing And then not so good at killing Maybe it was a situation where like she was more getting into kind of a Unbalanced mania towards the end so that she was having kind of focus issues. She was just getting sloppy I don't know that's kind of my theory on why that happens Maybe I'm thinking this through too much. I'm probably thinking too far into it. But yeah, just wondering Interesting, but if Information about the same colored eyes being cut out. Sorry, I ripped that all messed up It's it's an interesting bit of information about the same colored eyes getting cut out of each of the victims And I think that's what what's his name too. Lot inspector too. Lot That's what he kind of brings up is that all the women who have been or all the people Who have been killed and had their eye cut out have the same color eye Like that's interesting Not a bad misdirect with Reverend Bronson Seeming like the killer when he talks to the girl in the castle the one who finds this photo It was like oh is this your photo it definitely seems like this creepy moment where like he's on the edge of About to kill her so they did a good job kind of setting that up But obviously ends up not being the killer and they find him totally killed I Suspected Paulette is the killer, but it was smart to set her up like the lit love interest It keeps suspicion away from her. I kind of talked about that a little bit earlier, so we don't need to go further Paulette's friend pulled her eye out while playing doctor This is a weird thing You know a lot of the times in Geolos when you're getting back to the motive of the actual killer They're usually kind of thin and this one's crazy then The fact that she's like traumatized because she has a fake eye Because when she was a kid there she was playing doctor with a friend and they pulled her eye out first of all How did that happen that it's really hard to believe that that would happen at all And then the fact that that just made her crazy and she went over the top And now she wants to kill people and cut their eye out now It did look like when you see her killing the person at the end It did appear that she was going to put the eyeball she cut out into her own Socket isn't Comment down below. Do you also think that that's what was going on because it it looked like she was kind of moving that way And then they kind of cut it off real quick But I don't know if that was her thing that like she liked to feel like she had a regular eye I don't know it was interesting But that whole story is hard to believe So Paul it seems to have scared Mark back into fidelity in the end. Obviously Mark is Scared because he was all about Paul. I'd I assume they had been sleeping together and then he finds out that she's a murderer and That's obviously scares him right back to Alma because he's like, you know what? Let's work this out. We don't necessarily have to get divorced all the time before that He was talking about how they're going to get a divorce and that's what he wants Totally changes his mind as Paulette scares him back into the arms of Alma What's the purpose of having inspector to Della? That's his name. It's not too loud to Della What was the purpose of having him hand the reins off to inspector Lara at the end? It was such kind of like a weird way to kind of leave the film before you go to the credits because it doesn't really matter It's not about the inspectors really yes They're there and they're obviously playing an important role of trying to solve the case But they're not really important characters in the film and I just don't understand why you would just like end it with them It would make sense if it was if this was mainly about the main Inspector and his career and everything and the fact that then he's handing off the reins to the younger inspector But to end it like that. It's just like why like this doesn't even matter It's weird So this this film actually does move at a pretty good pace. It's like an hour and a half ish I think it's a little bit longer. It's like one hour 38. I think it is and it moves at a pretty good pace So I was pretty happy with that one I like the commonality of the eyeball being stabbed, but the kills are lame. I already talked about that I like the whole eyeball thing that the kills are lame. Obviously. That's why the film is called eyeball It's an interesting idea to have people getting picked off within the same tourist group I've never seen that done before and so I thought that was a cool Interesting new thing that could be added. So I like that premise I'd like to see some more people kind of play with that premise in more horror films in the future Maybe that'd be fun. Maybe some updated geolos. I Like how characters have a tendency to step into frame in a weird abrupt manner I don't know if anyone noticed this but those moments where a character would step into frame a lot of the times It's it's very abrupt. It's not like they're they're walking up in a normal manner We're like they're taking a few steps into frame and then stopping at some point It's literally they're taking one step and stopping. It just makes it seem so Purposeful in it and fake basically like they're standing like right off frame And then they get the cue and they take one step into frame and it just looks so fake It makes it look so fake. I don't know if anyone else picked up on that But that kind of bothered me a little bit, but they did it numerous times within the film It was weird Lindsey loves his zooms lots and lots of zooms He Lindsey can sometimes get on my nerves with all his zooms But for the most part I like his films and the way he directs and the cinematography that usually goes along with it Also a pretty solid score to this film. I was really digging on the music. So I was enjoying it That was a good time. So out of five stars with half stars in play. This is a good Solid giallo film, but I don't think it's anything super special. I enjoyed it enough So out of five stars with half stars in play, I'm gonna go three. I'm gonna go three stars on this one I was toying with three and a half, but that just doesn't feel right to me But love to hear your thoughts on it if you have seen this film Go ahead and put the comments down there your thoughts on eyeball Also, if you just want to talk about giallo in general, we can get nerdy about that because obviously I also love giallo And I'm down Do me a quick favor hit the subscribe button if you haven't already I would really really appreciate that it's quick It's painless It costs you no money and it really does motivate me to keep this channel going to keep doing these review videos and all The other ones I'm doing and it means a lot to me. 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