FilmNRSurvival Splatter & Gore Psychological

Five Across the Eyes2006

Name: Five Across the Eyes
Genre: Survival, Splatter & Gore, Psychological
Released: 2006-10-01
Rating: 3.5

“Getting home by curfew is gonna be hell...”

Directed by Greg Swinson, Ryan Thiessen

3.5

Crypt Score

Blended from 2 sources

IMDb 2.6TMDB 3.3

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Year

2006

Runtime

95 min

Box Office

Budget

$4,000

The premise

On their way home from a high school football game, five teenage girls become hopelessly lost. When they stop to get directions at a desolate store, the girls are involved in a minor fender bender which leaves an unattended SUV one headlight short. Inexperienced and frightened that they'll get into trouble, the girls flee the scene of the accident and speed away down the dark and unfamiliar roads. As they blindly make their way across an area the locals call THE EYES, the girls are suddenly shocked to see one lone headlight appear behind them. As the driver of the damaged SUV begins one terrifying assault after another, the five girls will lose their innocence and possibly their lives in this brutal and shocking thrill ride.

Horror Vault's take

After a minor hit-and-run accident on a desolate backroad, five teenage girls find themselves hunted through a remote region known as The Eyes by an unhinged driver hellbent on retribution. Shot on a shoestring budget with an all-female cast, the film leans hard into raw, unrelenting tension rather than polish. The confined setting of their vehicle becomes both refuge and trap as the pursuer's assaults escalate in brutality. Low-fi and mean-spirited, it sits firmly in the tradition of no-frills rural terror.

Content: Graphic Violence, Torture, Prolonged Psychological Torment, Peril Involving Minors