Good idea lost in the noise

Did you people see the same film I saw?

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

I can't believe I saw this movie. This is one of the worst films i've seen in 2006. The film doesn't even have a plot, it's just 5 teens being chased by a crazy lady. THE END! And the shaky cam makes me nauseous. It works for films like "Blair Witch Project" because that was shot like a documentary, but for a film like this it makes you think the cameraman was drunk. Plus, the main teens are really annoying.I mean, compare this film to Pulse, which came out that same year as this movie, that film was bad, but at least it was entertaining and had a plot. Also, what was up with the lady trying to kill them, she did mention something about her family but it's never mentioned again in this film.Overall, Five Across The Eyes is REALLY BAD. On top of that, it physically hurts to watch.I give it 1/10. I HATE THIS MOVIE!

One of the most terrible movies I ever seen. I understand that the budget was not great ($4,000 according to IMDb). But a small budget can only explain things like equipment, film... but it can't explain a bad writing or terrible acting.This movie is from top to bottom full of lame excuses to keep the weak story going on. How can a woman attack 5 girls at the same time without problems? In one scene the 5 girls are together and the crazy woman attacks one by one. While one is attacked, the others are lost in the scene or too hysterical to help their friends. The girl being tied to the car seat is a too damn stupid scene. All that she could do was to literally watch the crazy woman tying her. She almost helped the woman.The acting is just terrible. The woman is crazy, OK. The girls are scared, fine. But do they need to scream during 90% of the time? Even when the talk to each other they are screaming. It is too much scream that makes the viewer want to stop watching the movie.I'm surprised how the director managed to finish the movie in 90 minutes with a story that could be told in 30 minutes. And if the writer was good enough, a short good movie could be made. Indeed, I kept watching the movie because I thought that it was a short movie and that soon it would get to the end.Terrible production!

A lot of people seem to really hate this movie, at least from the comment here on IMDb. It does have some problems--extra shaky camera work, a repetitive story, annoying screaming that never stops. Somehow, I enjoyed it anyway.Five girls are on the way home from a football game when they become lost on a back road. They stop at a country store to ask for directions, and accidentally hit another vehicle as they leave. They argue amongst themselves what to do about it and eventually decide to leave without informing the driver. A few moments later, the same truck they hit is behind them on the road. The girls panic and speed up, getting further off track as they take high-speed turns without knowing where they are. Finally, they hit a dead end. That's when it begins...Spoilers: The driver of the white truck is crazy woman who pulls a gun on them, makes them get out, and terrorizes them. Before she hurts anyone, however, she leaves. It is clear from her dialog that she is out of her mind, shouting at the girls about things that have nothing to do with them. The girls are extremely upset about how they have been treated, and it takes them several moments to get themselves together and get back in the van.However, as they head back down the road, they happen to pass the same woman again, and she begins chasing the girls again. At this point, they viewer might be expecting something different to happen, but it ends up with the woman catching the girls again, and this time hurting them physically. The girls are still to frightened to fight back. This happens a couple more times over the course of the next hour, with the woman doing increasingly terrible things to the girls. It gets to be a bit much after a while--you expect the girls to pass out, bleed to death, or go into shock. Finally, the girls have had so much punishment that they are able to fight back, and they beat the woman down. They stab her repeatedly with a screwdriver, then set her body on fire. At this point, I was thinking that they shouldn't destroy the woman's body by burning it, because they are going to want the police to be able to identify the woman and they need them to believe they acted in self-defense.The girls head back towards home, still lost. They pass the country store and see that the woman killed everyone in there before leaving. We are left to imagine how their lives will be different from now on.The camera stays in close on all of the actresses, which often makes it hard to see what is happening, especially when there is a lot of movement. The camera tends to look like it is rolling around on the ground along with the girls, so I missed a lot of details that I think were meant to be more clear than they were. For some reason, I liked this movie anyways. I can't really defend it. It has lots of weaknesses--the writing, the acting, the visual style. I think maybe I had lower expectations because I was able to see some screen-shots of the movie before watching it, so I had lowered expectations about what I was getting. It is definitely not a slick production. You have to be willing to sit through a movie that looks like it was filmed on someone's home camcorder. After seeing it once, I will give it a six out of ten. I was entertained along the way, and satisfied with the conclusion.

Its a shame that some of you don't recognize brilliance when you see it. Five Across The Eyes is a horror movie masterpiece! It is by far the best horror movie ever made! The end!!! It is the only horror movie that can successfully disturb and horrify me every time I watch it. I've lost count of the number of times I've watched it and the tool box scene makes me sick to my stomach every time! The Blair Witch cinematography is brilliant. It made me feel like I was watching actual real footage and not just some crappy bigger budget Hollywood movie like The Strangers for instance. Or the horrendous remake of Friday the Thirteenth. Both of which are terrible terrible movies. But the cinematography in Five Across The Eyes makes it feel totally realistic. I believed what I saw on the screen was actually happening. And that made it all the scarier and completely pulled me into the film from beginning to end.At first the acting seems like it might not be that good but that is not the case. As the movie progresses the acting by the girls felt so natural that I forgot that I was watching actresses and the five girls became real people to me. And that made me genuinely like and care about them and root for their survival. And Veronica Garcia as the deranged woman that is terrorizing these poor girls is absolutely mind blowing! She is the most psychotic and sadistic villain ever to be seen in a horror movie! There are not enough good things I can say about this movie. The musical score and soundtrack is great. The song that plays when the girls finally exact their revenge is perfect. The cinematography is brilliant. The acting is natural and believable. The dialogue is good and often times funny. The ending is brilliant! This is the only horror movie I've ever watched that left me completely satisfied at the end. It is the epitome of what a horror movie should be and it proves that you don't need a huge budget to make a masterpiece.