Starry Eyes is a b grade flick that aspires, much like its lead character, to be more than it is and fails.
Simply put, Starry Eyes does not know what it wants to be and, instead, tries very hard to be any number of dispirit things. The result is a horror film on a bad acid trip, with psychedelic overtones, that simply clash with one another, in a head-ache inducing way.
Its cause is not helped by, at times, cheesy narrative, that tries far, far, too hard, to be clever.The acting, such as it is, is acceptable but not especially memorable either.
That's not to say there are not some creative and original ideas, on offer, in Starry Eyes. If only one of those creative concepts had been chosen and a cohesive, articulate story, constructed around it.
Regrettably, that was not to be. What you get, instead, can best be described as a muddled, cinematic mess. Two out of ten from me.
Simply put, Starry Eyes does not know what it wants to be and, instead, tries very hard to be any number of dispirit things. The result is a horror film on a bad acid trip, with psychedelic overtones, that simply clash with one another, in a head-ache inducing way.
Its cause is not helped by, at times, cheesy narrative, that tries far, far, too hard, to be clever.The acting, such as it is, is acceptable but not especially memorable either.
That's not to say there are not some creative and original ideas, on offer, in Starry Eyes. If only one of those creative concepts had been chosen and a cohesive, articulate story, constructed around it.
Regrettably, that was not to be. What you get, instead, can best be described as a muddled, cinematic mess. Two out of ten from me.