See No Evil (2006 film)

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See No Evil
Promotional poster for See No Evil
Directed by	Gregory Dark
Written by	Dan Madigan
Produced by	Vince McMahon Joel Simon
Starring	Christina Vidal Kane
Cinematography	Ben Nott
Edited by	Scott Richter
Music by	Tyler Bates
Distributed by	Lions Gate
Release date	May 19, 2006
Running time	85 min
Language	English
Budget	$8 million

See No Evil is a 2006 horror film directed by Gregory Dark, written by Dan Madigan, produced by Joel Simon, and starring professional wrestler Kane (Glen Jacobs). It is the first major film produced by WWE Films and was released by Lions Gate Films on May 19, 2006.

The film went through many different working titles before the final title of See No Evil was chosen. The original working title of the film was Eye Scream Man, but was later changed to Goodnight before settling on See No Evil.

According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Jacobs has signed a contract to act in a sequel for the movie.

The MPAA gave the movie an R rating for strong gruesome violence and gore throughout, language, sexual content and some drug use.

Plot

Template:Spoilers A group of delinquents with a police officer clean the Blackwell Hotel to fill their community service. Unfortunately for the group, they are not aware that psychopath Jacob Goodnight (Kane) is also in the hotel. The psychopath is a man shot by the officer, and has a rusty steel plate screwed in his head and sharp blade-like fingernails. Goodnight locks them in and begins to hunt them down.

Some of the deaths in the film include a cell phone into a girl's throat, a guy tortured to death, and a girl eaten by dogs. In the end Jacob Goodnight is thrown out of the hotel window with a pole through his head.

Cast

Actors/Actresses	Role
Christina Vidal	Christine
Luke Pegler	Michael
Glen Jacobs	Jacob Goodnight
Samantha Noble	Kira
Michael J. Pagan	Tyson
Rachael Taylor	Zoe
Penny McNamee	Melissa
Steven Vidler	Frank Williams
Tiffany Lamb	Hannah Anders
Cecily Polson	Margaret
Mikael Wilder	Russell
Craig Horner	Richie
Sam Cotton	Young Jacob
Corey Parker Robinson	Blaine
Annalise Woods	Young Girl
Zoe Ventura	Eyeless Woman
Tim McDonald	Officer #1
Trent Huen	Officer #2
Matthew Okine	Officer #3
Jason Chong	News Reporter
Greg Skipper	Bus Driver

WWE backing

This is the first movie to be released by WWE Film productions, thus WWE was adamant about promoting it. Before the movies release WWE ran a storyline involving Kane being haunted by "voices" and the idea that something would happen on May 19, the release date of the movie. Kane became so paranoid about the date that he began attacking anyone who he heard say the date, including his tag team partner The Big Show and G4's Attack Of The Show host, Kevin Pereria, at the end of an interview. On the May 8 edition of WWE RAW, three co-stars of See No Evil were interviewed by Todd Grisham. They all talked about how Kane was so (kayfabe) hard to work with and how his on-screen movie murders made him happy. During this segment Todd asked a male co-star, Michael Pagan, about the release date of the movie. Unaware of Kane's reaction to it, Michael then went on to say the date, which caused Kane to enter the area of the interview and make the two female co-stars, Christina Vidal and Samantha Noble, scream in terror while Kane choked Pagan to the ground.

After the film was released Kane revealed that the reason he hated the date May 19 was because "his family was killed on that day in a tragic accident".

Many world-wide members of the press were invited to a red carpet ceremony for the release of the movie, which also included various other WWE superstars. Interviews were given by superstars, including Shawn Michaels, John Cena, Kurt Angle, Candice Michelle, Chris Benoit and Chris Masters and Rey Mysterio commenting on the movie.

A segment on RAW showed footage from inside the movie theatre while the movie was playing. Footage was shown of the audience cringing, hiding and covering their eyes during the movie. Interviews were later given to members of the audience, which had members of the audience describing their experience. Some said they couldn't watch it, others said they cringed; most reviews were positive.

Reaction by critics

Critical reaction has been poor overall. As of September 29 2006, See No Evil has earned a 6% critic rating on Rottentomatoes and a 17% rating onMetacritic, indicating "extreme dislike or disgust". Many reviewers cite genre clichés and bad directing.

Entertainment Weekly gave this movie a grade of F.

The movie opened with an estimated $4.35 million in box office sales for that weekend. The film was sixth in the weekend box office totals. After two weeks, the movie stood at over $9.8 million. The movie's final domestic gross stands at $15,032,800. The movie's worldwide gross stands at $15,387,513.

Trivia

• The film's tagline, "This Summer, Evil Gets RAW" is a reference to the famous WWE RAW television program and franchise brand. Kane was a prominent fixture of the RAW roster until the RAW Family Reunion on October 09, 2006, where he lost a "Loser leaves RAW" match to Umaga.
• Sgt. Frank Williams, a key officer from the film's opening scene, is named after Frank Williams, a beloved WWF enhancement talent of the 1970's and 1980's. Williams is also known for being the first guest on "Rowdy" Roddy Piper's weekly talk show, "Piper's Pit".
• In one scene shown midway through the movie, artwork depicting Stephanie McMahon is visible in the background.
• To explain Kane's absence on WWE television while he was away shooting the film, the WWE made up a storyline where Kane's larynx was crushed by Gene Snitsky with a chair, something Kane did months before to Shawn Michaels.

Deaths

Template:Spoiler 1. Cop - axed twice

2. Hannah Anders - head crushed in the elevator, both eye balls ripped out.

3. Frank Williams - hooked in the chin, both eye balls ripped out.

4. Richie - eye ball ripped out.

5. Russell - head smashed (off-screen), both eye balls ripped out.

6. Melissa - after hanging from a rope ten stories high, Jacob drops her, and she falls until Jacob pulls the rope, causing her arms to break and is later eaten by the dogs (the only victim not to be killed by Jacob Goodnight).

7. Zoe - has cell phone shoved down her throat, crushing it, eye balls ripped out.

8. Tye - electrocuted and then crushed between a wall and a table.

9. Margaret - thrown into pikes on the wall by Jacob.

10. Jacob - killed by Christine after she stabs him with a metal pole through the left eye.

Survivors

Christine (Christina Vidal), Michael (Luke Pegler) and Kira (Samantha Noble) were the only ones that survived. Template:Endspoiler

External links

• Official website
• See No Evil at IMDb
• See No Evil at Rotten Tomatoes
• See No Evil at Box Office Mojo
• Upcoming Horror Movies - See No Evil ....Jacob Goodnight
• RottenTomatoes.com - See No Evil....Jacob Goodnight
• ComingSoon.net Plot Synopsis....Jacob Goodnight
• First Movie Review - May Contain Some Spoilers.
• DVD Review at Dread Central