Lauren Tewes who accustomed me to the role of Cruise director in the love boat series is quite good and surprising in this thriller "The eyes of a stranger".What a complete change! In love boat she is funny but light and a bit goody goody ,the innocent Julie mc coy who always smiles and waits for the charming prince. Here she isn't sentimental at all and that's a very good surprise! She is a news reporter who inquires about crimes and rapes and at the beginning we can sense that she is very focused and doesn't have time to have fun because of a serial killer who slaughters women and who lives opposite her flat. Moreover Jane feels very concerned and responsible of her sister who was raped and attacked when she was a little girl,which appears in a flashback when Jane is into her car looking at a yellow school coach and as a result the poor sister became blind and deaf because of the shock and unable to see and hear.She is traumatized because of this sordid event and wants to protect her sister played by Jennifer Jason Leigh who was very convincing in the role.It is a very sad condition for her and she cannot think about her future from a positive point of view.She will have to tutor her sister definitely. The killer appears very quickly in the story when Jane is in her car in a parking lot and she hides ,terrified to the idea of being discovered but i must admit that i found her a bit foolish and not wise enough when she decided to call the killer to tell him she knew who he was.She took a big risk and fortunately everything ends well for her and young sister blind who shots the scary guy but was it necessary to show her boobs and focus about them? I was quite puzzled near the end when Helen looks at herself in the bathroom mirror,which means she gained her sight again. This is a movie to be seen at least once but not so horrific as i expected it could be.It is sometimes gore especially at the beginning but there is not much violence in it. It is sometimes oppressive and the atmosphere is heavy and tense ..I liked this movie especially for the performance of Lauren tewes who plays a completely different role of the cruise director and shows more emotions and humanity .She could have played into another movies and wasn't given other opportunities that's a pity because she deserved better than Love boat.

A reporter suspects a creepy neighbor,who lives in the high-rise building across from hers is a serial killer terrorizing the Miami area.This sexual predator calls his victims repeatedly before raping and strangling them."Eyes of a Stranger" by Ken Wiederhorn is a suspenseful slasher flick with effective gore scenes by Tom Savini.The killings are fairly nasty and bloody including meat-cleaver decapitation,throat stabbing and throat slashing.The film is quite sleazy and misogynistic,so beware.John DiSanti plays really creepy psycho and Jennifer Jason Leigh is fantastic as the blind girl in one of her earliest roles.If you are a fan of "Maniac","The Prowler" or "Don't Answer the Phone" check out this thrilling spectacle.8 fish tanks out of 10.

When I picked up the film,and I noticed on the sleeve mentions to the Friday the 13th series,it got me to expect that the film would be a fun, nasty slasher film. During my viewing of the movie,I was surprised to discover,that most of the film is actually a very efficient cat-and-mouse thriller. The plot:Over a period of a few weeks,Stanley Herbert-who seems to do his best to make sure that he stays a loner (so as not to raise any ones suspicions)starts to terrorise girls,who are also on there own.Herbert sets out tormenting the girls,by first of all ringing each of his victims up, to give them terrifying phone calls about how he is going to rape and murder them.After having gotten the girl to become a shivering wreak,Herbert waits until the girl is on her own,so that he can grab them,and then brutally rape and kill them.With signs that there might be a serial killer on the loose in the area,the local TV news station hears about this,and decides to make this there top stories.Although as the murder count increases,it seems that the police have no idea what is happening around them.This leads to the local news channel head reporter (who is also taking care of her blind and deaf sister,who in the past has been brutally raped.)to decide that she cant wait for the police to get round to properly investigating,and that she is going to investigate the murders herself.As the reporter starts to investigate around the area,she begins to notice that a neighbour of hers seems to be acting very strangely.. View on the film:Looking at the cast,I have to admit the I feel that John Disanti gives the most memorable performance in the film as the crazed serial killer Stanley Herbert.With his small-round specs (that should have become a horror trademark)Disanti is truly chilling as Herbert,who seems to enjoy calculating the best time to destroy his victims.In the final battle,Disanti shows that whilst most people would seem to be at a huge disadvantage with a gun pointed at them,he is able to make it feel that Herbert may actually be the one with the upper hand.With being the only one that seems to be after him,Lauren Tewes (making her film debut) gives a very good performance as news reporter Jane Harris,with Tewes giving the scenes where she is getting closer,and closer to realising the killer,a fantastic edge-of-your-seat intensity,with the risks that the character is taking.Also in her film debut with this film is Jennifer Jason Leigh as Janes sister Tracy.Even though Leigh plays someone who hardly speaks in the film,the last twenty minutes of the film,where Tracy and Stanley are battling against each other,are given a great sense of danger,by Leigh showing how strong-minded Tracy is about surviving being out of her comfort zone.Although the first half an hour of the film,has some very enjoyable hack"n" slash moments, (although I do have to admit,that I did smile a little when some one gets beheaded due to the sound effect sounding like someone was cutting through very smooth treacle!) the rest of the film turns into a much more gripping cat-and-mouse thriller,with sections of the film such as Jane being in the killers apartment which,although being a staple of the genre,is still strongly written and very gripping. From the first ten minutes of the film,the main thing that caught my eyes about the start of the great screenplay by Mark Jackson and Eric L. Bloom,were the phone calls that Herbert does .Which along with being very disturbing,they seem to have inspired the threatening phone call scenes in the first Scream film (especially the first ten minute section of the film.)Final view on the film:A gripping cat-and-mouse horror/thriller,with a great script and a fantastic creepy performance by Disanti.

spoilers ahead..Chances are, this movie is over 25 years old , if you haven't seen it by now, you probley won't!Eyes of a stranger came out in the spring of 1981 along with the slasher craze of the early 80's 1981 seemed to be a huge year for slashers.Eyes of a stranger plays like a made for t.v. movie with some pretty violent scenes and some gore.The story is a crazed killer is stalking women in Miami FL. And hes targeted a young jennifer jason leigh as his next victim.with gore effects done by tom savini of all people who was pretty busy from 1980-1983.. doing gore shots for horror films. The violence in eyes seems like its real, we get a woman being attacked in her apartment and raped. and we get a lovers lane couple getting sliced up too. One departure from the other slashers i will point out is when the woman has her throat sliced in the car, she suffers quite a bit making it look disturbing and realistic. She basically chokes on her own blood. So warner now has finally put the film out on DVD In its uncut glory... And don't forget to watch for the head in the fish-tank i kid you not... not much else... also look for the Dawn of the dead poster outside the movie theater, kinda a inside joke cause tom savini also did the effects for that film as well..