Review of See No Evil

Unexciting thriller that can boast a couple of suspenseful sequences involving a blind girl (Mia Farrow) stalked by a boot-wearing psychopath. Brian Clemens, the man behind TV's "The Avengers", and TV's "Thriller", wrote the literate but restrained screenplay. The film feels like a forerunner to "Straw Dogs" in its authentic depiction of rural English life. Unfortunately, it is a little too mannered and too polite to be effective horror. The premise is a good one, but it is not exploited too well and the killer's totally anonymous status doesn't add interest. Well shot by Gerry Fisher and directed with some flair by Richard Fleischer. The killings happen off-screen and the dead body make-up is of the tomato ketchup variety. Farrow is excellent as the blind girl and even submerges herself in mud and filth in one sequence. It would not be erroneous to call this a very early entry in the slasher genre.