The Girl with the Hungry Eyes (1995) User Reviews

Could not have been worse

[mauro-12 · 1/10 · 6 February 2000]

I give this horrible film 1 out of 10. Not only the acting is way below par, but the camera shots are often confusing and the changes in tone and color of the scenes are done without an apparent pattern or logic. It is marketed as a horror movie, but what little death there is it appears so fake it never goes beyond a cheap thriller. The 'girl with hungry eyes', a vampire that not once behaves like one, is kind of cute but spends the entire movie with too much badly applied makeup and her eyes look more deranged and loonie than hungry. I had to fast forward through some of the parts! Please don't watch this!

Cheesy, but...

[HVY_WRKR · 7/10 · 2 June 2023]

FIrst time reviewing,

The Girl With The Hungry Eyes is not a good movie. But it's definitely an atomspheric one, and atmosphere goes a long way.

Again, this is not a good movie, per se. The acting is obvious throughout, The story is interesting, though, in a The Shining meets Fright Night meets The Red Shoe Diaries way. The filming borders on surreal so what it lacks in skill and technicality it more than makes up for in mood, with some interesting camera work set in and around a dusky, gothic, punk rock Miami. And while Christina Fulton's acting isn't a revelation, her performance in the film is quirky, sensual and haunting.

For the horror heads, there's plenty of gore, sex and dark humor to keep the interest up while the twilit, dark and dreamlike quality of the film makes it a worthy watch. Especially if time and your favorite vice(s) are handy. So, yeah, it's not a good movie, but with an open mind, it's a fun and memorable one.

Very good but they should have used the longer version only.

[artilevel · 10/10 · 5 May 2008]

There is the 'official' release of this on the DVD, which is the shorter edited version, which has far superior picture quality in that the colours are bright, whereas the longer, unedited version, also on the disc, has dull colours, but the shorter, official, release is spoilt by an annoying voice over, which really wasn't necessary, and seems only to be there to 'explain' more fully the story to what seems to be felt of as a dim American audience on the part of the makers. The longer version, which I saw first, is far, far superior in every way, apart from the dull colours, to the shortened version, so anyone seeing this should make sure to see the longer version first and see it how the director intended. It is based on the short story of the same name by Fritz Lieber, but in that 'the girl' remains nameless and an enigma, whereas in the movie, she is given a background supposedly explaining why she is the way she is, when the story works better without this, as she doesn't need an explanation, quite simply, she just - 'is'. And the written story conveys this very well. Never forget the last paragraph of the story where The Girl reveals her full intent, "I want that broken bike, I want your blood on the cobblestones, baby!" or whatever it was, she said. It said it all in that final paragraph. A brilliant story and one of the best I ever read when very very young indeed. ;-)

ps. I don't really think I have included any spoilers from the movie, but I ticked that I did, just to be on the safe side, seeing as I mentioned the ending of the written story. :-)