Unseen Evil

Unseen Evil (2001 - released 2002)

This film is honestly one of the hardest horror movies I've ever had to sit through. The quality alone makes it almost unwatchable. The script is so poorly written that half the time you don't even know what direction the story is going in - it jumps around, feels unfocused, and leaves you questioning if the filmmakers themselves even knew what kind of movie they were trying to make. It's disjointed to the point of being confusing, and instead of building suspense or terror, it just leaves you feeling lost and frustrated.

The cinematography is by far one of the worst aspects. It doesn't even feel like it was shot on professional equipment. Instead, it comes across like it was filmed on an old flip phone from the early 2000s, with grainy, washed-out visuals that look embarrassingly amateurish. And that's a huge problem, because by 2001 we already had plenty of horror movies with decent to great production value - so there's really no excuse for how rough and cheap this looks.

The acting and casting don't help matters. None of the performances stand out, and instead of elevating the weak material, most of the actors seem completely detached. Scenes that should be intense or scary end up falling flat, and it just reinforces how off everything feels - from the pacing to the character interactions.

By the end of it, I couldn't even tell you exactly what happened. The movie was that disjointed and badly executed. Nothing stuck, nothing impressed, and nothing scared. It was just a complete mess from start to finish.

I cannot in good faith recommend Unseen Evil to anyone. It's not one of those "so bad it's good" movies either - it's simply bad. Between the horrendous cinematography, the sloppy writing, and the completely unengaging performances, this is one horror film that deserves to stay buried and forgotten.

i gave it two star because i actually couldn t wait to see what bad acting would come next. or what corny effects would come next.

The acting was brutal and the plot so unbelievable I think the actors couldn t wait to finish shooting this movie and it showed on screen

Richard Hatch seemed out of place in the woods as opposed to his rocket ships anyway.

The props were poor and i have made better cg effects on my old 486

It makes you wonder what the people were thinking the whole time they made this film. Maybe this will be a future cult film ....who knows,

The ending brought you to your knees as well because you couldn't get up to actually watch the credits.

I don't think there is any kind of constructive criticism I could offer to a movie who's star actor is Tim Thomerson (not that I don't like him, I'm fond of his rather over-looked talents.) Everyone else has pretty much covered what a waste of a movie this is, I'll just have to add that save for Tim Thomerson, the acting is downright horrible!!! Not to mention a weak plot, undeveloped characters and just plain bad production. I think the 10 min. beginning sequence and eye-sore CGI effects sucked up most of this movie's budget and that left the production of this movie to be slapped together with whoever and whatever they could find.

It's sad when rabid horror-movie fans give up on a movie and hope for sex on screen to save it. Potential as MST3K fodder is the best light this movie will ever see...... 1/2

P.S. However did this movie even get the rating is has?!!! 18% voted a 10 as of this date?!! May all who positively view this movie disintegrate under the laws of artistic ability!!!!!!!

If this movie had a large budget, it would just be another silly horror movie with a bad script and bad directing. It is not a big money movie, however, and the results are tragically tacky.

I could not hope to encompass all of the bad things about this movie in a comment as short as this one, and I would not want to - the movie is not worth it. Suffice to say that the script is horrible, the directing is worse, the camera work seems to be irrevertibly stuck in the early eighties and the "special effects" (which are repeated ad infinitum, ad nauseam) are so bad they would shame those of early Star Trek - if those had been created today!

The greatest horror of the whole thing, however, is trying to set yourself in the role of the actors, who do a fantastical job, despite everything else, as they labour to make something believable out of this utter crap of a movie. Sadly, the actors, despite their efforts, can hardly make their characters, badly written as they are, come to any life beyond pulp magazine stereotypes.

This movie is not even worth watching as the joke I hope it is.

UNSEEN EVIL opens with some hokey Native American lore about the title entity. Once glimpsed in its cave lair, we know for sure we're in bad-bad CGI country! After about ten years of opening credits, we're introduced to the disposable humans who are on their way to the selfsame cave.

Enter Ranger Chuck MacNeil (Tim Thomerson) who is the only likeable character, as well as the only one with a functioning brain. Horror -sort of- erupts when the group's true motives are revealed, pi$$ing off the cave monster to no end! Yep, there's a treasure involved.

At first it's okay, since the beast is invisible. Alas, it soon materializes, revealing the full extent of the computer generated ineptitude. If it hadn't been for the pitiful presentation, this could have been a low-low budget version of PREDATOR. Instead, it's terrible.

REMEMBER THIS ADDAGE: If the budget is super-low, do we show the monster? No!

BONUS: This movie does contain one of the most rib-tickling decapitations ever filmed!

PLUS: The "gold" treasure is obviously painted balsa wood!...