Allen (Jasper Hammer) has a top rated radio show/podcast called “UN/Sane” which seems to be mainly exploiting people with paranormal experiences, sort of a combination of Art Bell and Alex Jones. A returning video caller who in a previous episode claimed to be followed by “shadow people” now claims to have caught one. When he points his phone at a locked door, we hear the voice of a woman pleading to be let out. At his point, the caller starts brandishing a gun, and if you’ve seen The Fisher King, you know where this goes.
The ensuing tragedy loses Allen his show and his job, but his producer, Kim (Danielle Evon Ploeger) retrieves his box of story leads (labeled “Box of Freaks”) and visits him with it. She thinks she can get Allen back on the air, but she needs a redemption story. In the Box of Freaks is a letter that stands out: a farmer in Oklahoma claims to have a monster living in the woods behind his house, and if Allen does a show about the monster, well, there’s an unsigned check for $25,000.
So Allen finds himself in the almost literal middle of nowhere in the company of Bob (Ben Hall), a farmer who despises him and his show, but Bob’s deceased wife loved it, so he seemed the logical choice to tell the story of Bob and his monster, which he claims has already eaten all the livestock on the farm. His one remaining goal is to kill the monster (which he calls “Eye” because it is covered in eyes), which is why Allen also finds himself on a farm in the middle of nowhere which is festooned with booby traps. “Just try to walk where I walk!”
Bob’s drawing of the monster.
If you’re familiar at all with movies, you know that Allen and Bob will eventually reach some level of accord, especially when it turns out that somebody else is hunting Eye in the woods, and they’re calling it “Number 878“.
It seems that this movie is going to be all talk and no action, until there is a hell of a tone shift in the third act, and the less you know about this, the better. But All Eyes proves itself to be a rather unique horror movie in that it demonstrates it has a heart, covered with a bunch of monster stuff, and that gives it a lot more staying power. Recommended.
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