There are two kinds of bad movies: Some seem to aim for bad while others don’t seem to aim for anything. Eyes Behind the Stars seems to be the latter. It’s a story of a photographer that stumbles on evidence of aliens, but seems to be put together somewhat hastily and doesn’t make much sense.
It starts with the aforementioned photographer and a model doing their thing when they start to get a weird feeling. Their watches stop working, so they stop with the modeling. Later that day, the photographer is taking more pictures. He somehow manages to capture images of space ships without seeing any. (I’m not sure if he had some indication of where the ships were or happened to capture the images by accident.)
While developing the pictures, an alien comes and takes all evidence from the photographer. How do we know it’s an alien? He has this weird metallic suit and a motorcycle helmet. He also has fisheye vision. Fortunately, a reporter has some of the evidence. The reporter talks to people and goes places to hopefully put a story together. Unfortunately, that’s not going to happen. The aliens are on to him. There’s also a group called The Silencers that don’t want the public knowing about aliens. (I never understood why fear of public panic has always been the go-to excuse.)
There are also members of the Royal Air Force involved in this. (At least, I think they were British. They may have been American. Or Italian. Or maybe aliens.) Somehow, information was leak. The bas commander wants answers. I’m not really sure how it fits into the rest of the narrative, except that I think they found the aliens’ landing site or something.
Oh, and the photographer and model were abducted by the aliens. The model is returned, but not the photographer. What’s a reporter to do? He hires a psychic to probe the model’s mind for answers. The psychic feels that the model saw something that fried her mind.
The movie ends with some text saying that the entire thing was based on real events. Well, a set of real events. Everything supposedly happened, although not necessarily as the same series of events. That would at least explain why the writing was so bad. Someone hobbled together a conglomeration of narratives to come up with something that sort of made sense to them. The movie is sort of like Close Encounters of the Third Kind, but without the scene at Devil’s Tower to bring everything into focus.
The entire plot is barely cohesive. I kept waiting for something to tie it together. That never happened. I also thought there might be some big reveal, like who the aliens are or what they might want. That never happened, either. It’s just some reporter chasing a story and the aliens chasing down the evidence. The least they could do is maybe spend some money on makeup. Give us some idea of what the aliens look like.
I think that this is going to be a frustrating movie for anyone that watches it. If you go into it expecting a normal movie, you’ll be sorely disappointed. If you’re in to bad movies, like I am, I wouldn’t get this movie by itself. I’d get it as part of a set of movies, which shouldn’t be hard to do. I was able to watch it as part of a collection my brother had. (The DVDs were so disorganized, I’m not really sure which collection this was part of.) This is definitely among the worst movies I’ve ever seen.
It starts with the aforementioned photographer and a model doing their thing when they start to get a weird feeling. Their watches stop working, so they stop with the modeling. Later that day, the photographer is taking more pictures. He somehow manages to capture images of space ships without seeing any. (I’m not sure if he had some indication of where the ships were or happened to capture the images by accident.)
While developing the pictures, an alien comes and takes all evidence from the photographer. How do we know it’s an alien? He has this weird metallic suit and a motorcycle helmet. He also has fisheye vision. Fortunately, a reporter has some of the evidence. The reporter talks to people and goes places to hopefully put a story together. Unfortunately, that’s not going to happen. The aliens are on to him. There’s also a group called The Silencers that don’t want the public knowing about aliens. (I never understood why fear of public panic has always been the go-to excuse.)
There are also members of the Royal Air Force involved in this. (At least, I think they were British. They may have been American. Or Italian. Or maybe aliens.) Somehow, information was leak. The bas commander wants answers. I’m not really sure how it fits into the rest of the narrative, except that I think they found the aliens’ landing site or something.
Oh, and the photographer and model were abducted by the aliens. The model is returned, but not the photographer. What’s a reporter to do? He hires a psychic to probe the model’s mind for answers. The psychic feels that the model saw something that fried her mind.
The movie ends with some text saying that the entire thing was based on real events. Well, a set of real events. Everything supposedly happened, although not necessarily as the same series of events. That would at least explain why the writing was so bad. Someone hobbled together a conglomeration of narratives to come up with something that sort of made sense to them. The movie is sort of like Close Encounters of the Third Kind, but without the scene at Devil’s Tower to bring everything into focus.
The entire plot is barely cohesive. I kept waiting for something to tie it together. That never happened. I also thought there might be some big reveal, like who the aliens are or what they might want. That never happened, either. It’s just some reporter chasing a story and the aliens chasing down the evidence. The least they could do is maybe spend some money on makeup. Give us some idea of what the aliens look like.
I think that this is going to be a frustrating movie for anyone that watches it. If you go into it expecting a normal movie, you’ll be sorely disappointed. If you’re in to bad movies, like I am, I wouldn’t get this movie by itself. I’d get it as part of a set of movies, which shouldn’t be hard to do. I was able to watch it as part of a collection my brother had. (The DVDs were so disorganized, I’m not really sure which collection this was part of.) This is definitely among the worst movies I’ve ever seen.
