Eye of the Beast is set on Fell's Island in Canada where a small fishing community lives along with local natives. The fish stock in the waters around Fell's Island have drastically fallen to almost zero & the local economy is suffering, marine biologist Dan Leland (James Van Der Beek) is sent in ti investigate & conduct some experiments. It's not long before h has a theory, Dan comes to the conclusion that a giant man-eating Squid lives in the waters around Fell's Island that after having eaten all the fish decides to eat the only other thing left, namely people. Dan teams up with local fisheries official Kat Tomas (Alexandra Castillo) & salty sea-dog captain Gunnar Thorson (Arne MacPherson) to track the beast down & kill it before more lives are lost...
This Canadian production was directed by Gary Yates & is yet another totally forgettable & utterly generic Sci-Fi Channel 'Creature Feature' of which there seems to be an endless supply although no matter how bad they get I always seem boneheaded enough to sit down & watch the bloody things. Right, where to start? Eye of the Beast features all the usual clichés of the genre, a small isolated community, some sort of giant or mutated creature, some shallow attempts at social commentary & meaning & some scientist or other who teams up with some local authority figure. It's all here, you can practically tick the boxes off as Eye of the Beast progresses & everything you expect to happen does. My main problem with Eye of the Beast is that it's slow, there's barely any Squid attacks, minimal gore & the Squid only really gets any screen time two minutes before the thing finishes. Virtually nothing happens for the first hour or so. The film is also very dull to watch with dull character's who have little or no personality, it's quite well made & competent but throughly uninvolving or exciting which is worse than being badly made & unintentionally funny for instance which at least would have given it some entertainment value. The highlight of the script is a fairly amusing conversation about why fishing is better than sex with quips like if you catch something fishing it doesn't matter, if you mom catches you fishing alone it's OK...
You would think that a 'Creature Feature' about a giant Squid would actually focus on the giant Squid but Eye of the Beast decides not to & instead sticks to boring dramatics as the locals argue amongst themselves. The Squid doesn't get much screen time, in fact apart from a couple of rubber tentacles the Squid is only seen about two minutes before the film finishes in what I must admit is a fairly decent CGI computer effect but since that's the only CGI effect in the entire film that's where the budget must have went. There's no gore here either, sure there's a severed leg, a torn off arm & a ripped cheek but it doesn't amount to anything much.
With a supposed budget of about $2,000,000 this was shot in Canada & it has competent production values & looks alright. The acting is OK, James Van Der Beek with designer stubble of Dawson's Creek (1998 - 2003) fame is the obvious name actor here.
Eye of the Beast is a throughly dull & generic 'Creature Feature' that is totally forgettable in it's competent yet unexciting blandness. There are much better 'Creature Feature' flicks out there, don't bother with this one.
This Canadian production was directed by Gary Yates & is yet another totally forgettable & utterly generic Sci-Fi Channel 'Creature Feature' of which there seems to be an endless supply although no matter how bad they get I always seem boneheaded enough to sit down & watch the bloody things. Right, where to start? Eye of the Beast features all the usual clichés of the genre, a small isolated community, some sort of giant or mutated creature, some shallow attempts at social commentary & meaning & some scientist or other who teams up with some local authority figure. It's all here, you can practically tick the boxes off as Eye of the Beast progresses & everything you expect to happen does. My main problem with Eye of the Beast is that it's slow, there's barely any Squid attacks, minimal gore & the Squid only really gets any screen time two minutes before the thing finishes. Virtually nothing happens for the first hour or so. The film is also very dull to watch with dull character's who have little or no personality, it's quite well made & competent but throughly uninvolving or exciting which is worse than being badly made & unintentionally funny for instance which at least would have given it some entertainment value. The highlight of the script is a fairly amusing conversation about why fishing is better than sex with quips like if you catch something fishing it doesn't matter, if you mom catches you fishing alone it's OK...
You would think that a 'Creature Feature' about a giant Squid would actually focus on the giant Squid but Eye of the Beast decides not to & instead sticks to boring dramatics as the locals argue amongst themselves. The Squid doesn't get much screen time, in fact apart from a couple of rubber tentacles the Squid is only seen about two minutes before the film finishes in what I must admit is a fairly decent CGI computer effect but since that's the only CGI effect in the entire film that's where the budget must have went. There's no gore here either, sure there's a severed leg, a torn off arm & a ripped cheek but it doesn't amount to anything much.
With a supposed budget of about $2,000,000 this was shot in Canada & it has competent production values & looks alright. The acting is OK, James Van Der Beek with designer stubble of Dawson's Creek (1998 - 2003) fame is the obvious name actor here.
Eye of the Beast is a throughly dull & generic 'Creature Feature' that is totally forgettable in it's competent yet unexciting blandness. There are much better 'Creature Feature' flicks out there, don't bother with this one.