gridoon2024 Review of White of the Eye

White of the Eye (1987)

Stunningly directed (but not written) thriller-cum-black-comedy

[6/10 · 12 January 2019]

Donald Cammell's hyper-stylized direction captures the eyes, but the script (which he co-wrote) is rambling and slow-moving. Like in the not dissimilar "Le Boucher" by Claude Chabrol, the absence of any real secondary suspects for the murders (the two sadistic murder sequences are reminiscent of the Italian gialli) makes it rather obvious who is the guilty party early on. In the final twenty minutes, the film goes so (intentionally) over-the-top that it crosses over the line from a tense thriller to a bloody black comedy. David Keith gives a deliciously Jack Nicholson-esque performance. **1/2 out of 4.