Review by: zer0hal0
Date: 8th April 2008
A young shy teenage girl named Kimmy (Cyd Schulte) is trying to fit into the so called “popular
group” and will do just about anything to fit in. That’s until her 2 spoiled rich high school friends
Susan (Jesselynn Desmond) and Rachel (Jamielyn Kane) decide they all should skip school and
attend a ditch party in the hood. Before getting into Kimmy’s car, all of a sudden Susan’s friend
Jerry (Tom Curitore) also decides to skip school and accompanies the 3 girls to the party.
Unfortunately that following day slowly ends up becoming their worst nightmare. When Kimmy
accidentally hits a half naked Latino woman with her car in the backstreets of the hood, frantic
and scared, they quickly get out of the car to see if the women is still alive, sadly Jerry can’t find
a pulse and they quickly try to come up with a suggestion to make their problem go away. Susan
who is buzzing on cocaine comes up with the idea to leave the body on the side of the road, and
wants to forget that this ever happened. All of a sudden the mysterious woman jumps back to life
and scares the teenagers making them run off down the road an head on into 2 ex-con Latino
gang members Joker (Carlos Javier Castillo) and Psycho (Antonio Royuela). The 3 girls and Jerry
are held at gun point, and made to follow them back to their gang territory where they are soon
accompanied by a third gang member Shy Girl (Anne Stinnett) who basically played possum when
jumping out in front of their car. The helpless four teens soon find themselves being mugged, tied
to a fence and then one by one are subsequently humiliated, submitted to absurd sexual acts,
violently raped, tortured, sodomised, assaulted and then murdered in cold blood. Susan, who was
passed out, awakes and manages to make a quick exist leaving Kimmy crying out for help while
face flat on the ground after recovering from a viscous rape, while Rachel is at the time being
sodomised with a broken beer bottle. Scared for her own life, Susan leaves Kimmy behind for the
gang to come back for second helpings and tells Kimmy she is going to bring back some help. It’s
not long after the police sirens go off in the distance and the gang flee the scene with the money,
but lucky for Kimmy, Psycho’s gun jams and he quickly runs off. When Kimmy gets to her feet, she
finds her best friends Rachel and Jerry dead, and decides to take things into her own hands, and
begins to seek revenge on the gang. As the table has turned the gang members are one by one
are submitted to play her revenge games which she leaves Psycho for the picking last.
A couple months back I was browsing through Myspace and I found the official The Hood Has
Eyez Myspace page www.myspace.com/cinemathreat and after checking out the trailer I had
to watch this film. I don’t know it was that made me want to see this film so badly, maybe it was
the fact of seeing hot gorgeous teenager being Dirty Sanchezed by a Latino gangster that did it
for me. Who knows? But one thing I will say is that, I am fucking glad I had the chance to review
this little rape/revenge gem.
This film is written, directed by independent filmmaker Terrence Williams, who also happens to
have a short cameo within the film as a black married man who keeps on dozing off on Susan while
she is screwing his brains out in a public toilet at the beginning of the film. The Hood Has Eyez is
not this director’s first full length featurette film, but instead this is his fifth attempt at directing
and writing a movie. I personally haven’t had the chance of reviewing any of his previous films,
but after watching The Hood Has Eyez I can absolutely see myself tracking down some of his
earlier films in the near future.
Before I even watched this film, the title alone kind of had me thinking “what was I in for?” was I
going to be watching a zero budget tongue in cheek version of Wes Cravens: The Hills Have
Eyes? But instead this isn’t even the case; The Hood Has Eyez does not even resemble The
Hills Have Eyes not even in the slightest bit. Surprisingly the film kind of reminded me of a low
budget version of I Spit On Your Grave mixed with another one of Wes Craven’s earlier film called
The Last House On The Left but bringing out a new fresh look to those old 70s rape and revenge
roughies. I really have to hand it to Terrence to have the balls to create such a brutal, sadistic
twisted film which falls into the same category as these older cults classic films I have grown up
loving. I can’t recall how many times when watching this film it had my emotions jumping from
down to up, while I found myself slightly turning my head away from the TV and squinting my eyes
from the extreme torture scenes. One minute it’s a low angel up the skirt panty scene and then
the next it’s some guy pulling out a tampon and then sucking the blood out it. This went on and
on throughout the whole film, and honestly I loved every single minute of this film and most of all
the impact it had on me.
The cast in this film, I couldn’t really place anyone’s face in any other films. Actress Cyd Schulte
most definitely played a solid role as Kimmy and gave an outstanding realistic performance
throughout the film. But the cast member who stole the spotlight is none other than actor Antonio
Royuela who played the role as gang member Psycho. Where his character unplugs a Susan’s
tampon and said “I always wanted to know what a catholic school tastes like” and begins to suck
the blood from it and then says “I always wanted to know the difference between a 69 and 6.9,
now I know, it’s a period”. Not even David Hess in his whole career was that vile enough to
portray a scene like that.
The gore factor is roughly borderline, some scenes can be very disturbing to watch at times, while
other times can be tame but still very enjoyable to watch. Some of the props Terrence used were
in-fact realistic sex toys (male penis, woman’s vagina), but incredibly it still manages to have that
shock effect and tricks the audience in thinking that it could be real. There is only a handful of
cast members listed in this film, and I really don’t want to spoil too many of the scenes for you in
the way they are tortured to death. But I will say this, 80% of the final scenes are brutal as fuck,
especially when it comes to the revenge on the gang members.
The Hood Has Eyez also has a high level of T&A (Tits and Ass) scenes. Just about every female
cast in this film gets right down to their bare skin, and doesn’t mind showing their goods off to the
camera, but sadly actress Jamielyn Kane who played Rachel didn’t strip down or flash a boob. And
sorry girls/gays there was no full male nudity presented in this film.
The score I have to say was original, and suited the movie. Every time something extreme was
going to happen unfortunately the score gave it away. But the sound itself has a Celtic Goth feel
to it, similar to the score in Cannibal Holocaust with those deep ping dropping sounds.
I can’t really comment on the DVD extras because the movie I had the pleasure to review was a
screener. The only extra presented on the screener was a trailer and that’s about it. But
according to Amazon.com this movie does contains the original uncut version (which no doubt is
the version I reviewed) of the film, behind the scenes, bloopers, trailer, still photo gallery.
I know now days you tend to see a lot of handheld low budget films hit the shelves of your local
video store, and yeah, some of them turn out to be utter shit. Trust me, I have come across so
many in my time, and still to this day I end up being tricked into grabbing a dud every now and
then. But I can assure you that Terrence Williams: The Hood Has Eyez is one film you won’t
regret buying and owning on DVD. If you enjoy watching rape and revenge films as I mentioned
before, low budget effects, an un-named cast, lots of nudity, extreme violent torture, well then
this film is what you want to get right now.
If I have to sum up The Hood Has Eyez in a few short words I would have to say “Extremely
Sadistic, Grotesque and Sinister”.
Date: 8th April 2008
A young shy teenage girl named Kimmy (Cyd Schulte) is trying to fit into the so called “popular
group” and will do just about anything to fit in. That’s until her 2 spoiled rich high school friends
Susan (Jesselynn Desmond) and Rachel (Jamielyn Kane) decide they all should skip school and
attend a ditch party in the hood. Before getting into Kimmy’s car, all of a sudden Susan’s friend
Jerry (Tom Curitore) also decides to skip school and accompanies the 3 girls to the party.
Unfortunately that following day slowly ends up becoming their worst nightmare. When Kimmy
accidentally hits a half naked Latino woman with her car in the backstreets of the hood, frantic
and scared, they quickly get out of the car to see if the women is still alive, sadly Jerry can’t find
a pulse and they quickly try to come up with a suggestion to make their problem go away. Susan
who is buzzing on cocaine comes up with the idea to leave the body on the side of the road, and
wants to forget that this ever happened. All of a sudden the mysterious woman jumps back to life
and scares the teenagers making them run off down the road an head on into 2 ex-con Latino
gang members Joker (Carlos Javier Castillo) and Psycho (Antonio Royuela). The 3 girls and Jerry
are held at gun point, and made to follow them back to their gang territory where they are soon
accompanied by a third gang member Shy Girl (Anne Stinnett) who basically played possum when
jumping out in front of their car. The helpless four teens soon find themselves being mugged, tied
to a fence and then one by one are subsequently humiliated, submitted to absurd sexual acts,
violently raped, tortured, sodomised, assaulted and then murdered in cold blood. Susan, who was
passed out, awakes and manages to make a quick exist leaving Kimmy crying out for help while
face flat on the ground after recovering from a viscous rape, while Rachel is at the time being
sodomised with a broken beer bottle. Scared for her own life, Susan leaves Kimmy behind for the
gang to come back for second helpings and tells Kimmy she is going to bring back some help. It’s
not long after the police sirens go off in the distance and the gang flee the scene with the money,
but lucky for Kimmy, Psycho’s gun jams and he quickly runs off. When Kimmy gets to her feet, she
finds her best friends Rachel and Jerry dead, and decides to take things into her own hands, and
begins to seek revenge on the gang. As the table has turned the gang members are one by one
are submitted to play her revenge games which she leaves Psycho for the picking last.
A couple months back I was browsing through Myspace and I found the official The Hood Has
Eyez Myspace page www.myspace.com/cinemathreat and after checking out the trailer I had
to watch this film. I don’t know it was that made me want to see this film so badly, maybe it was
the fact of seeing hot gorgeous teenager being Dirty Sanchezed by a Latino gangster that did it
for me. Who knows? But one thing I will say is that, I am fucking glad I had the chance to review
this little rape/revenge gem.
This film is written, directed by independent filmmaker Terrence Williams, who also happens to
have a short cameo within the film as a black married man who keeps on dozing off on Susan while
she is screwing his brains out in a public toilet at the beginning of the film. The Hood Has Eyez is
not this director’s first full length featurette film, but instead this is his fifth attempt at directing
and writing a movie. I personally haven’t had the chance of reviewing any of his previous films,
but after watching The Hood Has Eyez I can absolutely see myself tracking down some of his
earlier films in the near future.
Before I even watched this film, the title alone kind of had me thinking “what was I in for?” was I
going to be watching a zero budget tongue in cheek version of Wes Cravens: The Hills Have
Eyes? But instead this isn’t even the case; The Hood Has Eyez does not even resemble The
Hills Have Eyes not even in the slightest bit. Surprisingly the film kind of reminded me of a low
budget version of I Spit On Your Grave mixed with another one of Wes Craven’s earlier film called
The Last House On The Left but bringing out a new fresh look to those old 70s rape and revenge
roughies. I really have to hand it to Terrence to have the balls to create such a brutal, sadistic
twisted film which falls into the same category as these older cults classic films I have grown up
loving. I can’t recall how many times when watching this film it had my emotions jumping from
down to up, while I found myself slightly turning my head away from the TV and squinting my eyes
from the extreme torture scenes. One minute it’s a low angel up the skirt panty scene and then
the next it’s some guy pulling out a tampon and then sucking the blood out it. This went on and
on throughout the whole film, and honestly I loved every single minute of this film and most of all
the impact it had on me.
The cast in this film, I couldn’t really place anyone’s face in any other films. Actress Cyd Schulte
most definitely played a solid role as Kimmy and gave an outstanding realistic performance
throughout the film. But the cast member who stole the spotlight is none other than actor Antonio
Royuela who played the role as gang member Psycho. Where his character unplugs a Susan’s
tampon and said “I always wanted to know what a catholic school tastes like” and begins to suck
the blood from it and then says “I always wanted to know the difference between a 69 and 6.9,
now I know, it’s a period”. Not even David Hess in his whole career was that vile enough to
portray a scene like that.
The gore factor is roughly borderline, some scenes can be very disturbing to watch at times, while
other times can be tame but still very enjoyable to watch. Some of the props Terrence used were
in-fact realistic sex toys (male penis, woman’s vagina), but incredibly it still manages to have that
shock effect and tricks the audience in thinking that it could be real. There is only a handful of
cast members listed in this film, and I really don’t want to spoil too many of the scenes for you in
the way they are tortured to death. But I will say this, 80% of the final scenes are brutal as fuck,
especially when it comes to the revenge on the gang members.
The Hood Has Eyez also has a high level of T&A (Tits and Ass) scenes. Just about every female
cast in this film gets right down to their bare skin, and doesn’t mind showing their goods off to the
camera, but sadly actress Jamielyn Kane who played Rachel didn’t strip down or flash a boob. And
sorry girls/gays there was no full male nudity presented in this film.
The score I have to say was original, and suited the movie. Every time something extreme was
going to happen unfortunately the score gave it away. But the sound itself has a Celtic Goth feel
to it, similar to the score in Cannibal Holocaust with those deep ping dropping sounds.
I can’t really comment on the DVD extras because the movie I had the pleasure to review was a
screener. The only extra presented on the screener was a trailer and that’s about it. But
according to Amazon.com this movie does contains the original uncut version (which no doubt is
the version I reviewed) of the film, behind the scenes, bloopers, trailer, still photo gallery.
I know now days you tend to see a lot of handheld low budget films hit the shelves of your local
video store, and yeah, some of them turn out to be utter shit. Trust me, I have come across so
many in my time, and still to this day I end up being tricked into grabbing a dud every now and
then. But I can assure you that Terrence Williams: The Hood Has Eyez is one film you won’t
regret buying and owning on DVD. If you enjoy watching rape and revenge films as I mentioned
before, low budget effects, an un-named cast, lots of nudity, extreme violent torture, well then
this film is what you want to get right now.
If I have to sum up The Hood Has Eyez in a few short words I would have to say “Extremely
Sadistic, Grotesque and Sinister”.
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The Hood Has Eyez
SCREENER/APPROX. 70 MINS/2007/USA UNRATED
SCREENER/APPROX. 70 MINS/2007/USA UNRATED
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