Crystal Eyes is a homage/pastiche of the giallo -- not so much the classic '70s movies of Argento, Bava and Martino, but rather the glossy, somewhat tacky '80s music-video-inspired efforts that went straight to video: films such as Too Beautiful To Die, Nothing Underneath, and Fulci's Murder Rock, which were set in the world of high fashion, populated by semi-clad women sporting big hair and bad make-up, swathed in neon and smoke, the action accompanied by a pop/rock synth soundtrack.
Directors Ezequiel Endelman and Leandro Montejano get the aesthetic spot on, and add knowing nods to the classics of the genre to please avid fans. The killer is particularly impressive, dressed as a mannequin and striking model poses whilst pursuing the staff and models working at fashion magazine Atilla. If I have one complaint, it's that the murders aren't very elaborate: they're staged well enough, with plenty of blood (the throat slashings are juicy), but they lack imagination -- at least until the ending, where a woman is impaled by a large crystal bird ornament (geddit?). More of that would have been good.
Directors Ezequiel Endelman and Leandro Montejano get the aesthetic spot on, and add knowing nods to the classics of the genre to please avid fans. The killer is particularly impressive, dressed as a mannequin and striking model poses whilst pursuing the staff and models working at fashion magazine Atilla. If I have one complaint, it's that the murders aren't very elaborate: they're staged well enough, with plenty of blood (the throat slashings are juicy), but they lack imagination -- at least until the ending, where a woman is impaled by a large crystal bird ornament (geddit?). More of that would have been good.