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Five Across the Eyes is a 2006 movie shot on a low budget in Tennessee in a Blair Witch style of low light and jumbled hand-held shots. It's the story of five teen girls (all cute) who get involved in a minor hit and run on a back road. The woman (yes, woman) driving the other car doesn't appreciate it and stalks the girls. Over the course of the next hour (movie time) the teens are chased and caught and chased and caught etc. through a series of improbable and unexplained events. At one point the girls are forced to strip in front of the car by the shotgun wielding protagonist (not much shown as the scene is shot from the rear (bare backs only) in the headlights of their car. One of them is forced to pee on their clothes and then, inexplicably, our villainess leaves... but she'll be back.
After much driving and screaming, the girls are caught a couple more times resulting in assorted assaults (mostly off-camera) before the film ends with... The most innovate scene is when the woman gets tired off one of the girl's constant pleading and retrieves a box of fishing tackle. After she has secured the girl to her car seat through the innovative use of seat belts, she reaches into the box for a handful of big fish hooks and stuffs them in her mouth before using white medical tape from the first aid box to gag the girl by wrapping it across her mouth and headrest.
While the use of the camera 'hides' much of the good stuff, it does add to the sense of realism more than I expected. The other high point was the constant dialogue of women screaming and pleading with assorted good close-ups of their faces while doing it. Take note for those who don't like too much blood... in this movie everyone comes out of it with blood covering their faces and clothes.
Five Across the Eyes gets a C as a movie (stretches credibility and too dark to see) and C- for GIMPage (shots are dark, short and from the wrong angle too often but lots of good screaming and expressive facial shots) with a bonus as the girls are cute and there's five of them.
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