Starry Eyes

2014 "She would kill to be famous."
6| 1h38m| NR| en| More Info
Released: 14 November 2014 Released
Producted By: Dark Sky Films
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://www.starryeyesfilm.com/
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A hopeful young starlet uncovers the ominous origins of the Hollywood elite and enters into a deadly agreement in exchange for fame and fortune.

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CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!
Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic
Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.
Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.
Andariel Halo This movie began well enough, with a compelling protagonist and story along with a pair of delightfully odd casting agents for the studio that will bring about all the oncoming plot turmoil. but after indulging us in an intriguing concept and setup, the movie starts to languor about with essentially nothing but vaguely creepy moments, scenes, and synthesizer music. The protagonist, Sarah, has an ordinary audition which leaves the casting agents rather unimpressed. As a result, she goes to the bathroom and has a nervous fit that turns into a hair-pulling freakout. As it happens, one of the casting agents was in the bathroom after her and was intrigued by her freakout, and so wants her to come back to do it again for them.She does, and they like it, but she thinks they were mocking her, until she gets a callback for another audition. The audition is a lot more incoherent and eerie than the first, yet it works and she eventually gets to meet the producer, who starts Harvey Weinsteining her and she bolts out of the room. But the producer's words linger in her mind as she goes to get her waitress job back and contemplates mediocrity again. So she ends up returning to the producer and getting the starring role in the movie they make. Then... a whole lot of nothing happens. A whole lot of nothing, followed by some inexplicable "body rot-horror" reminiscent of "Contracted", followed by a needlessly gorey sequence in which she somehow decides that killing her friends is what is needed to get ahead in the role she has already landed. Basically, a whole lot of nothing occurs between her returning to the Producer, and the end. There's no real conflict further on, there's nothing even related to the movie or the movie studio that occurs. Aside from her body inexplicably rotting and becoming maggoty, everything that occurs after that point is entirely of her own violent and malicious doing. Once we do get to the end, it takes on a vaguely satanic vibe, before then just ending. It's difficult to even properly process or explain much of the movie because so much of the film is just essentially "there" without any meaningful connection to the main plot. It legitimately feels as though the film ran overly long, and in their zeal to cut it down for time, they ended up cutting out a huge portion of the middle section.
Filipe Neto When I watched this indie horror movie I had very low expectations. I know indie cinema can be incredible or crap. So I've been watching prepared for the worst. However, this movie is neither excellent nor particularly innovative, looking like an inspiration over Polanski's "Rosemary's Baby". The film ends up being a huge satire around the highly brutal and competitive environment of the American film industry. The script is based on the ambition and lack of scruples of a young aspiring film star, who is willing to do anything to reach success, managing to get an invitation to audition in a large studio. The sarcastic criticism is present in the way her dreams are chewed and ruined, and in the way the film producer abuses her, forcing her to do things she doesn't want. She ends up selling her own soul... well, probably Hollywood should be a soulless environment also.The cast is led by Alexandra Essoe, a young actress with some talent and who has done a fairly regular job here. Amanda Fuller was good enough also, with a good supporting work. Maria Olsen was well, sinister enough, but her task was only to add some gloomy atmosphere to the film. The rest of the cast did an average performance, doing what was necessary but without adding much more than that.The film uses some scenes in which the actress appears half-naked, but I don't think this was bad, or a call to the "sex sells" formula. I think it went well the way it was used. It has some gore also, but it's not too heavy, helping to reinforce the tension.Not being a brilliant movie, "Starry Eyes" delivers what it promises. It's a film that is within acceptable standards, can create a pleasant tension but doesn't frighten or make us feel afraid. In fact, I think I realized more of a certain criticism of Hollywood than a simple attempt to do horror. It's an average movie, worth watching but not allowing it a second time.
James Purcell Movies that take an hour to get interesting (yes I timed it, no I'm not exaggerating) are just not watchable. I like character development in movies. I require character development in movies. This wasn't time required for character development. This was unnecessarily long and drawn out, and boring. There was never a point in this movie where I was like "this is good. This is a good use of my time. I am interested." There wasn't. It was always "this has got to capture my interest at some point, right?"Check out my reviews for other movies. If you agree with my other reviews, watch something else. Coherence is awesome.
Claudio Carvalho In Hollywood, the Big Taters'waitress Sarah Walker (Alex Essoe) is an ambitious aspiring actress that suffers from hair pulling disorder. Sarah does not respect her boss Carl (Pat Healy) or her job since she believes she will be a great actress and this job is temporary only to pay her bills. She shares an apartment with her roommate Tracy (Amanda Fuller) that frequently discloses her secrets to their selfish friends Erin (Fabianne Therese) that likes to humiliate Sarah and steal her roles; Danny (Noah Segan), who is an aspiring director that likes Sarah; Poe (Shane Coffey) and Ashley (Natalie Castillo) that are indifferent to her. When Sarah is invited to an audition of the film The Silver Scree from the company Astraeus Pictures, their auditioners do not show any reaction to her performance. When Sarah leaves the audition, she goes to the toilet room and has an attack, pulling her hair and crying. Immediately after, the casting director (Maria Olsen) invites her to return to the room and repeat what she did in the bathroom for her assistant (Marc Senter) and she. Sarah is invited again to an audition with the producer (Louis Dezseran) and when he insinuates to have sex with her, she refuses and goes home. However her ambition prevails and she returns to his house and has oral sex with him. He tells that she wants to be famous, she needs to die and reborn. When Sarah returns home, she finds that her body is deteriorating and she needs to murder her friends to complete her transformation. What will she do?"Starry Eyes" is a disturbing horror film with potential to be great. The story is a sort of gore version of Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray", where the body of the lead actress deteriorates instead of her body, with "Faust". Alex Essoe has a top-notch performance and the gore scenes are impressive. The plot has flaws, without any explanation about the cult or how the deaths could be explained to the police, families and landlords, maybe because of the low-budget. The conclusion does not show Sarah famous but she probably might be. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): Not Available on Blu-Ray or DVD.