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Excellent, Without a doubt!!

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

I don't get what the fuzz is about this movie. I thought it was not great acting, the story was too long and no that exciting. Maybe for a movie made in 1987 it might have been good in that time but for now you have much better thrillers to watch. I read from another reviewer that he got so scared of this movie. Really? I suppose he must be 6 years old then. The only thing that kept me watching this movie was to relive the incredibly bad taste of hairstyle, clothing and wall decorations. Also when you see the computers they had it makes you realize how we evolved in only 25 years. It looks like they were living in the stone age compared to now. Finding out who the killer is was the best part of the movie. The end of the movie is from another level, and by that I mean a dumb level.

White of the Eye is a set in a small town in Arizona. Someone is butchering local women, and the investigating officer (Art Evans) is zeroing in on sound engineer (David Keith) who lives in the desert with his wife (Cathy Moriarty) and daughter. the film through wonderful uses of 16MM shows flashbacks which charts Cathy Moriarty's former relationship with Alan Rosenberg of Cybil fame,& depicts episodic moments which may give clues as to who the Killer may be, all is not what it seems which culminates in a rather bizarre climax. Directed by Donald Cammell Performance/Demon Seed, & also Ace Photographer on Nicolas Roeg films, there is lots of excellent photography especially innovative Steadicam (Larry McConkey)who is excellent wherever steadicam is used.the soundtrack is composed by Nick Mason (of Pink Floyd) a tour-De- force performances by David Keith, who does his best screen work, as does Cathy Moriarty of Raging Bull fame,

***SPOILER ALERT*** Before were even introduced to the major characters in the film we witness one of the most brutal and sadistic murders in all of motion picture history. The savage slashing and dismantling of the murder victim makes the shower scene in "Psycho" look like as if someone nicked their face shaving in comparison.At the scene of the crime local cop Det. Charles Mendoza, Art Evens, not only notices very distinct tire tracks but things lined up, in the murder victim's house, that resemble that of an ancient Apache direction marker or weather-vane. It turns out that the tire tracks fits the truck tires that Paul White (David Keith), the areas crackerjack electronic and sound upgrade expert, drives. The movie then seems to go off kilter with David's love life, not his being suspected in a number of horrific crimes in and around Globe Arizona, being the main focus of its story.We get a number of flashbacks of a younger David, looking like a 1960's hippie, meeting his future wife Joan, Cathy Moriarty, who together with her boyfriend Mike DeSantos, Alen Rosenberg,stopped off at his repair shop on their way to Malibu to get their eight track tape recorder fixed. We soon realize that the handsome and sure of himself David stole Cathy away from Mike which greatly, to say the least, upset him. Now some ten years later with both David & Cathy happily married with and eight year old daughter Danielle, Danielle Smith, a bitter Mike, who had since served time behind bars, shows up out of the blue! David for his part has been cheating on Cathy for what seems like years with him having an affair with one of his customers, whom he installed a TV and stereo unite, the sultry Ann Mason, Alberta Watson. What all this had to do with David being suspected in a string of vicious murders, which by then you almost forgot about, made you wounder if the film's storyline somehow got lost on the cutting room floor? ****SPOILERS**** It's in the last fifteen or so minutes of the movie, after Mike showed up, that we get to understand what all these disjointed events had to do with the series of murders in and around Arizona. It all had to do with a hunting trip back in 1976 that both David & Mike went on. Something happened on that hunting trip in the Arizona Rockies that later changed things around in the movie not only forever but for the absolute worst!I doubt if anyone can match the murderous psycho in the movie "White Of The Eye" who's actions, while both crazy and normal, should have easily earned him, or the actor who played him, the best actor Academy Award for 1987. The final and unbelievable showdown in the broiling and empty Arizona desert has the totally deranged madman go out in a blaze of glory to the thunderous sounds of Gustav Mahler's Second Symphony! Which in him being the great music lover that he is was more then a fitting ending for him.

I have never seen the movie, but I have listened to a series of sound clips on the Pink Floyd (unofficial?) anthology of never released material, the Treeful of Secrets. The clips from this movie are scary as hell! Maybe cheesy directing and visual clichés kill the effect, but I've had to remove the clips from my random shuffle because they are so unnerving at 11:30 at night... Straight out of some Waters psychotrip!Anyone who yearns for the old timey feel of radio show horror would do well to find a copy of this film and listen to it with the lights turned down low. I'm not sure whether, in light of the movie's subject, it would be creepier alone, or with a significant other....