When will horror directors realise bad acting kills their film?

That's what struck me in this, the acting was truly poor. Look at B movies from 30 years ago, and the acting was far superior to what's on show here.

A shame as there's a decent storyline, and the film looks good for a low budget movie, but it's killed stone dead by the acting.

Sadie (Kate James) leaves her American home to go back to her old home on the Moors following her father's (Darren Day) apparent suicide. We later discover there is a "demon eye" necklace made by a girl in 1851 and she was burnt alive because of it... and her little dog too! John had the necklace and was haunted by her. Sadie takes a job as a photographer at the local paper and has her own visions...even before she found the necklace.

The special effects were okay for a low budget film. However, the scenes needed some help. The bedroom scene with Sadie and Dan (Robert Hamilton) was pathetic as they just talked. The tub scene should have been a shower scene with Misty Mundae in the lead. The "eye" aspect was underdeveloped.

Now the paper was looking for a story. She had a photo of the burning girl on her camera and she had the demon eye too. Yet, she is out looking for a story about the eye and the burning girl. The horror aspect wasn't bad, it just needed some support. I mean you writer/director Ryan Simons.

Guide: F-word. brief sex scene. brief photo nudity.

Well, given the movie's title, "Demon Eye", I decided to sit down and watch this 2019 movie from director and writer Ryan Simons, believing that I would be in for a horror movie experience.

Horror it was, but not in the sense of this being a horror movie. But a horror to sit through this uneventful, tedious and downright nonsense script of a movie.

The storyline revolves around a supernatural theme, but it is a theme that is hardly utilized throughout the movie, so it was really, really hard to buy into the storyline and plot of the movie. And it didn't really help much that the movie wasn't making much use of special effects and CGI.

The characters in the movie failed to captivate me, and they had zero appeal. It was a shame, because there was some adequate acting talents on the casting list, but their talent were squandered by a horrible storyline and pointless characters. It was nice, however, to see a cast ensemble of all unfamiliar faces. I enjoyed that part of the movie at least.

The movie is slow paced; unfathomably slow paced. And very little of any interest took place throughout the 1 hour and 27 minutes that the movie ran for. So yeah, it was somewhat of an ordeal to sit through this movie in its entirety.

"Demon Eye" is hardly a memorable movie in any way, nor was it a particularly memorable or enjoyable movie. So I believe this one will simply fade into oblivion without having left any kind of mark on the horror genre.

I am rating "Demon Eye" a generous three out of ten stars.