| After watching See No Evil, I’m uncertain as to whether it’s a movie about the endurance of a disabled person, or just an excuse to terrorize the heck out of someone rather helpless for about 90 minutes. Mia Farrow plays a semi-helpless blind waif (but three years after playing a semi-helpless pregnant waif in Rosemary’s Baby) who lives at her uncle’s British estate. She’s only recently blind, and is thus learning how to move around without her sight. After arriving home one afternoon after a date, Farrow wanders through the house, unaware of the fact that it’s now adorned with her relatives’ bloodied corpses. She starts running a bath, for example, completely clueless about the fact that her dead uncle is lying in the tub. (No, blood does not stand in very well for bubble bath.) After realizing the fate of her relatives, Farrow tries
desperately to get away. But the killer returns with his own mission:
find the ID bracelet that could link him to these horrific crimes. Who
is this mysterious killer with the ugly boots? Did the nearby slovenly
gypsies commit the slaughter? This isn’t Rosemary’s Baby,
and I think Audrey Hepburn’s blind girl in Wait Until Dark could
probably kick Farrow’s butt around the block, but Richard Fleischer’s
flick (available at Boîte Noire) does offer up enough thrills
as to warrant a rental. : |