The Eve (2015)

I gave it a 7.5 out of 10

Good concept, poorly executed.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

A claustrophobic, old-school thriller, making very good use of a (mostly) single location. Great ensemble acting and a nice twist ending which rewards viewing all the way through. As someone who has only visited Martha's Vineyard in the summer and heard tales of the "off-season population", I was very curious to watch this film. It captured the atmosphere and sense of place very well and made me want to go back again, despite making me way more wary of those "off-seasoners"! Recommended.

The film opens on New Year's eve with a stabbed drunk grown male and a young girl cowering in a corner. Apparently years later we have a group of four spending New Year's Eve on Maratha's Vineyard. Harrison (Evan Bass) a slightly dysfunctional irritating personality brings along his girlfriend Lacey (Miranda Noelle Wilson) without telling the other two in the group. Lacey has intimacy issues and always spends New Years alone. Harrison has had a bad business deal with his buddy Scott (Al Thompson). Scott's former girlfriend Jenn (María DiDomenico) rounds out the group. There is also the creepy neighbor caretaker (Rick Estabrook).Things are not hard to figure out. In fact too easy. It would have been nice if there was some kind of twist (reverse plot spoiler) i.e. if the childhood killer had been an unseen brother and not the girl. Unfortunately the writing was far too simple. It was painful to sit through knowing what was going to happen with the film proceeding at a snail's pace.Guide: F-bomb. No sex or nudity.

The Eve is a super spooky thriller with lots of suspense that keeps you involved and watching. I jumped out of my seat few times. The story was executed well, giving you just the right amount of suspense. The acting was very believable, and the characters were well casted. The cinematography was stylistic, and added to the creepy undertone of the movie. Highly recommend.

...it was just terrible. Not a horror movie. No chills. No thrills. No suspense.My wife and I are horror fans and have spent time on the Vineyard in the winter so we were really excited about an indie horror movie shot in that setting. Unfortunately, the 2 stars I give the movie are for the setting only, the movie itself was a miss on every level. Poor acting, poor script (dialogue forced, unnatural), poor execution.The characters couldn't die fast enough for me. The only one character I enjoyed at all goes first. And in an unexplained way, bringing about a near comical response by his 'friends', who determine quickly that he has expired- without any visible signs of trauma- and left where he lay with a rising tide approaching.Too many contrived scenes with ridiculous dialogue delivered poorly to mention, but when you find yourself begging for a lame jump scare you know it's a bad movie. It was sealed when the girls ask Harrison why he was gone so long when he went to sneak into the neighbor's house in the dark to use their phone and he responds: "It was harder to get there than I thought it would be. I couldn't see and I had to deal with the bushes and thorns." Wow.As for the reviews invoking "throwback" type of horror, don't buy it. It is just so fundamentally weak in all respects that it can only be deemed an homage to other equally poor movies. Great to see the sleepy island in winter but other than that, a huge disappointment.