4/10
FEEBLE EYESIGHT
30 August 2021
I know this is considered a classic, but in hindsight and with everything that's come since, looks cheap and phony. Cannibals in the hills preying on trapped tourists in the desert below is a great idea for a plot. The tormented ordinary folk are ordinary enough, and those with the eyes in the hills ugly and scary enough, but the action sequences are cut crudely, and Papa Cannibal's growling and screaming in supposed backwoods hillbilly-speak became annoying. Then there's the requisite sappy bit bout the cannibal's daughter with a heart of gold saving the baby, like always. And why do parents come along on these trips? They should know they're always the first to go. When a scratch on a main character's closeups switches from cheek to cheek from shot to shot, well that's just glaring proof of cheap and slapdash. I know I've been spoiled by bigger budgets and talent in the meantime, but at this point i can't rate this any higher. Sorry.
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