Twisted Terror Collection (Deadly Friend / Dr. Giggles / Eyes of a Stranger / From Beyond the Grave / The Hand / Someone's Watching Me) |  | Directors: John Carpenter, Ken Wiederhorn, Kevin Connor, Manny Coto, Oliver Stone
Actors: Peter Cushing, Michael Caine, Andrea Marcovicci, Larry Drake, Holly Marie Combs
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Number Of Discs: 6
Running Time: 575 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.7 x 3.6
MPN: WARD115949D
UPC: 085391159490
EAN: 0085391159490
Theatrical Release Date: October 23, 1992
Release Date: September 25, 2007
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Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 09/25/2007
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Nancy Drew meets Rear Window April 9, 2009
R. Pepper (Los Angeles)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Lauren Tewes (of The Love Boat fame) and the talented Jennifer Jason Leigh (Single White Female, Dolores Claiborne) in her film debut star in this horror/suspense thriller about a killer who stalks, rapes and murders young women. Jennifer Jason Leigh plays Tracy, both deaf and blind from a molestation attack when she was a young girl. Lauren Tewes plays her sister Jane Harris, a gutsy TV reporter who blames herself for the attack on Tracy. One night in the parking garage, Jane witnesses some strange activity from one of the male tenants. She begins to keep tabs on the man as she hears of more young women being murdered in the area. Could the killer be the strange man she is spying on? Taking a key from the maintenance room, she breaks into his apartment and her suspicions are confirmed. Going even further, she calls him up on the phone and taunts him much like he does to his victims. Unfortunately, Jane makes a slip while giving a report on the news as the killer watches. Now he knows who she is and where she lives. While taking another look around his apartment she notices the man from across the way in her apartment attacking Tracy. With an explosive finale, Eyes of a Stranger is a rare gem of a movie released during the horror slasher craze. Although this is more of a Hitchcock-inspired suspense film. Eyes of a Stranger also pre-dates many films where women are not helpless victims, but women who are capable of fighting back. I highly recommend this entertaining thriller!
eyes of a stranger January 31, 2009
G. Labrie
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Eyes of a Stranger
I saw this movie in the 80's have been searching for it to watch
over again. Found it on Amazon, very suspensful movie and of course
Lauren Tewes is a terrific actress. So glad I found it again now
I can watch whenever I want. Thank you Amazon
Great slasher film, definitely worth a look. November 12, 2008
Puzzle box (Kuwait)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Jennifer Jason Leigh and Lauren Tewes star in this very good and effective horror/thriller film. Despite being made by the same production company behind the first Friday The 13th movie, Eyes Of A Stranger isn't quite the typical slasher movie cash-in you'd expect despite being made during the early 80's where stalk `n' slash movies seemed to be coming out almost every week, the script doesn't have the typical slasher movie plot devices that have a bunch of amateur actors that get killed off by a serial killer but it attempts to make the movie more of a mystery thriller than an outright slaughter fest. It's a more interesting approach to the sub-genre but it does slow the movie's pace a tiny bit which might explain why this is one of the lesser known horror/slasher film.
A small community in Miami is transformed into a group of terrified residents when a gruesome series of sex murders continues unchecked. Police investigations seem to lack urgency, and Jane (Lauren Tewes) a local television news reporter appeals to viewers to pass on useful information to herself. Jane's boyfriend asks her to move in with him, but she is more concerned with protecting her blind and deaf-mute sister Tracy (Jennifer Jason Leigh) with whom she is living with. Tracy's condition is rooted in a childhood trauma when she was raped and left for dead. Tracy was abducted as a child, she was raped and left for dead after she had made her wait from outside her house alone (the abduction is shown in a creepy flashback sequence) which left her in shock to the point where she has become blind and deaf. Completely by chance Jane begins to suspect her weird neighbor Stanley Herbert (John De Santi) of the killings after she spies on him changing shirts in the parking lot. Some of the stalking and obscene phone call scenes were reminiscent of Black Christmas and When A Stranger Calls so if you've seen those films this would be a bit familiar to you. There are a couple of decent jump scenes and there's that old slasher flick classic- a decapitated head in an unusual place (this time it's a fish tank which was pretty neat!) and the gore effects were done by Tom Savini so you know that they were great, they usually consist of a couple of bloody throat slashings and a decapitation scene but not as gruesome as other slasher flicks like The Burning. I would have to say that the storyline was decent and it did have some nice moments and some good dramatic scenes, there was alot of nudity as well so if you like that then you'd probably enjoy this film.
The film lets you know who the killer is early on and never lets you know why he did it or how he gets away with it. Plus Jane spends so much of the film saying she's doing all she can to protect Tracy and spends half of the movie without her completely unprotected which is a bit ridiculous but it makes the plot seem more interesting since there is a bit of tension between the two sisters which results in a conflict, she loves her sister but is not sure if she could take care of her most of the time it becomes too much responsibility. This was definitely an interesting role for Jennifer Jason Leigh who did a great job as the blind and deaf sister and I always thought that she was an underrated actress, a good film to check out Jennifer's acting especially playing a deaf and mute person and I also like the way that director Wiederhorn sets up the suspenseful scenes of mind games between our killer and Tracy's unseeing eyes as well as having a slow-motion finale which was pretty cool. Even though there were a few cliched moments I still thought it was an awesome and underrated slasher flick that at least tries to be different, I highly recommend this and two thumbs up.
long lost Savini slasher film October 24, 2008
Ronald L. Ferrell Jr. (McDermott,Ohio)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I first heard about this movie through Tom Savini's Grande Illusions book.I never saw a vhs release for it. I ordered a copy of WB's Twisted Terror Collection with this in it.I watched it and thought it was pretty good. Kind of along the same lines as Halloween and Psycho.It's too bad this was lost for many years.
Above Average 80's Horror October 24, 2007
snowleopard (Oregon)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Made back in the early 1980's, on the heels of the slasher film resurgence, Eyes of a Stranger did it's best to break away from the endless Halloween clones, while still keeping up a level of tension.
It stars the attractive Lauren Tewes (from Love Boat) as a reporter trying to track down and verify the identity of a ruthless killer, played by John DiSanti, who lives near her. Where this movie differs so much from other horror of the era is that DiSanti's identity, and face, are never hidden. You know who he is, and that he did it, from the get-go, giving us more of a suspense film than a true slasher. Tewes is convinced he's the killer, but no one will believe her (duh, of course not) and there is a very tense confrontation between she and her blind and deaf sister (well played by a very young Jennifer Jason Leigh), and DiSanti.
Ken Wiederhorn had worked on PBS before this film, and apparently used this film and genre, like so many others, to try to get a bigger break into Hollywood. In all, there are some strong moments of tension, the effects are good, especially for the day (FX master Tom Savini), and Tewes surprised a lot of people with her tough character (not nearly as sweet and pure as Julie on the Love Boat), but in the end the film never generated much interest and flopped, so it's good to see it on DVD, uncut, and in widescreen format too.
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