Eye of the Beast: Maneater Series
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DVD Cover Information Actor: James Van Der Beek Director: Gary Yates Brand: Genius DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Original Language) Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen Picture Format: 1.66:1 Running Time: 90 minutes DVD Release Date: 2008-04-01 Audience Rating: Unrated Model: 80847 Studio: Genius Products (TVN) Product features:
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Movie Reviews of Eye of the Beast: Maneater Series
Movie Review: Cue the limb!
Summary: 1 Stars
Eye of the Beast takes place on Fells Island, where investigative scientist Dan Leland (James Van Der Beek) meets cute with sheriff Katrina Tomas (Alexandra Castillo). The two try to figure out what caused all the fish to disappear around the island. If only they had looked at the cover art.
Look...if there's a giant tentacle crushing someone in half on the cover art, the only mystery is whether the monster is a giant squid or Cthulhu. And since I have yet to see a decent modern update of Call of Cthulhu, it's got to be Architeuthis. This is not a mystery. It's fact. The name of this film series is "Maneater" for crying out loud. It's not "eel we mistakenly took for a giant freshwater squid." And yet Eye of the Beast strives mightily to turn its plot into a romantic mystery instead of the pedestrian monster bash it should be.
Eye of the Beast is more preoccupied with Tomas' love life (at 36 still she still lives with her mom, who nags her incessantly about finding a boyfriend) than it is about the squid. Never mind the dubious logic that one can electrocute an entire lake with a power cable; you've got to wonder if anybody even cares about fishing anymore since electrocuting the lake might, ya know, kill all the fish.
Eye of the Beast is made up of far too many non-monster killing scenes: Leland and Tomas flirt, rednecks and Native Americans quarrel, and a giant squid keeps lopping off limbs. Indeed, that's all there the action that takes place in Eye of the Beast - limbs. Be it from the squid itself, which are big floppy puppets, or a piece of a victim, whenever Eye of the Beast runs out of anything interesting to show ...CUE THE LIMB!
Idiot couple smooching on the lake? FLOATING FOOT!
Some genius tried to kill the squid by himself? DRIFTING ARM!
Viewer tired of watching a giant monster he knows is in the movie somewhere but because of the tiny CGI budget never gets to see it? SLAPPING FOREHEAD!
Okay that last one didn't happen in the movie, but it did happen to me.