White of the Eye Review

Review of White of the Eye (1987) by screenqueeen: 👍 4/5

First time watching WHITE OF THE EYE and damned if it doesn't throw you a curveball heading for your face.

I didn't have any expectations, rather just the knowledge that Donald Cammell worked with Nicholas Roeg and Kenneth Anger (!) and that's about it. The real treasure of this is that the whole thing is a visual and aural feast, something always catching your eye.

From the beginning of the film it feels like one of those weird things that Cannon would put out (like they do), but it goes way beyond where you'd anticipate and truly frightens you.

Where THE VANISHING creeps along at a slow pace and at a distance, WHITE OF THE EYE gets right in your face but the pacing is exponential and equally as intense. This is close-up terror.