There are a lot of movies about eyes; The Eye (Western), The Eye (Eastern), Blue Eyes, Evil Eyes and Shutter spring to mind. Michael Scott's Deadly Visions is not the best the genre has to offer but it's also certainly not the worst either.
Deadly Visions, also released as Possessed, sees, no pun intended, Ann Culver, played by Nicollete Sheridan, losing her eyesight in a car accident but regaining it after a successful eye transplant. Unfortunately, post op, she is not really in control of everything she sees. (Just for the record, eye transplants aren't possible, yet, though parts of the eye can be transplanted.)
The film is made for television and is actually better than OK. Nicollete Sheridan is a competent actress and carries this project with ease. Is there anyway of getting away from the lawsuit? Sheridan unsuccessfully sued Desperate Housewives for 20 million in 2012 and again unsuccessfully appealed in 2017. Anyway Deadly Vision was made in 2004, 8 years before all of this but 20 million is going to keep coming up.
The film. Deadly Vision is in the tradition of the Hands of Orlac and Hands of a Stranger though about eyes. The previous owner of her eyes is trying to contact Sheridan's character Ann Culver, through her eyes, and catch her murderer. Julie Angeletti, the original owner of the eyes, was supposed to be a suicide but we all know otherwise.
There is the obligatory cute daughter, Sandy played by Ginger Page. The eventually, well, sort of helpful policeman Lt Austin Burke played effectively by Phillip Granger; the sympathetic best friend Cara Tapper played by Sarah Deakins, the quirky technician, Steven, at the eye bank played by Michael Eklund, and on it goes. Just an observation, Steven wears Hawaiian shirts so straight away we know he has to be unconventional.
Patricia Idlette as Jasmine, as the gifted 'psychic', deserves especial note. Hers is not a large role but she carries it off very convincingly.
The movie is in a sense a police procedural with Sheridan filling the role of the dogged 'police officer'. She doesn't believe Julie was a suicide but rather a murder and her eyes and some determined investigative work eventually realise an outcome.
As is the way with made for television movies there are lots of close-up head shots and head and shoulder shots. Apart the central premise, the plot doesn't stretch credibility too much. There some outside scenes and the general tenor of the film is suburban. Michael M. Scott, the director deserves kudos for his one industrial set scene. The usual is a handful of 44 gallon drums and an empty packing case and a lot willing suspension of disbelief. To his credit, he actually goes to an industrial site to film.
The English born Sheridan has a lot of experience to bring to this movie and it shows. Deadly Visions is a better than average mid-day movie and this in the main down to its polished star.
(There is no point using the same standards for scoring with all movies. Deadly Visions is not Casablanca and so shouldn't be compared with it regarding scoring. It should be compared with like movies.)
Deadly Visions, also released as Possessed, sees, no pun intended, Ann Culver, played by Nicollete Sheridan, losing her eyesight in a car accident but regaining it after a successful eye transplant. Unfortunately, post op, she is not really in control of everything she sees. (Just for the record, eye transplants aren't possible, yet, though parts of the eye can be transplanted.)
The film is made for television and is actually better than OK. Nicollete Sheridan is a competent actress and carries this project with ease. Is there anyway of getting away from the lawsuit? Sheridan unsuccessfully sued Desperate Housewives for 20 million in 2012 and again unsuccessfully appealed in 2017. Anyway Deadly Vision was made in 2004, 8 years before all of this but 20 million is going to keep coming up.
The film. Deadly Vision is in the tradition of the Hands of Orlac and Hands of a Stranger though about eyes. The previous owner of her eyes is trying to contact Sheridan's character Ann Culver, through her eyes, and catch her murderer. Julie Angeletti, the original owner of the eyes, was supposed to be a suicide but we all know otherwise.
There is the obligatory cute daughter, Sandy played by Ginger Page. The eventually, well, sort of helpful policeman Lt Austin Burke played effectively by Phillip Granger; the sympathetic best friend Cara Tapper played by Sarah Deakins, the quirky technician, Steven, at the eye bank played by Michael Eklund, and on it goes. Just an observation, Steven wears Hawaiian shirts so straight away we know he has to be unconventional.
Patricia Idlette as Jasmine, as the gifted 'psychic', deserves especial note. Hers is not a large role but she carries it off very convincingly.
The movie is in a sense a police procedural with Sheridan filling the role of the dogged 'police officer'. She doesn't believe Julie was a suicide but rather a murder and her eyes and some determined investigative work eventually realise an outcome.
As is the way with made for television movies there are lots of close-up head shots and head and shoulder shots. Apart the central premise, the plot doesn't stretch credibility too much. There some outside scenes and the general tenor of the film is suburban. Michael M. Scott, the director deserves kudos for his one industrial set scene. The usual is a handful of 44 gallon drums and an empty packing case and a lot willing suspension of disbelief. To his credit, he actually goes to an industrial site to film.
The English born Sheridan has a lot of experience to bring to this movie and it shows. Deadly Visions is a better than average mid-day movie and this in the main down to its polished star.
(There is no point using the same standards for scoring with all movies. Deadly Visions is not Casablanca and so shouldn't be compared with it regarding scoring. It should be compared with like movies.)