Edge of your seat suspense at its best I saw this movie as a child in Cali, Colombia in English with Spanish subtitles. It made a huge impression on me and I went to see it several times. Sara, played by Mia Farrow, is a young woman who has recently lost her sight. She is still learning how to operate as a blind woman in a sighted world and is visiting her aunt, uncle and cousin on their country estate. While she is out on a date with her boyfriend, her family is brutally murdered. When she returns home, she goes about the business of getting ready for bed. The audience sees what she cannot: the bodies of her aunt, uncle and cousin. The suspense begins there, when you know she will inevitably discover their bodies, as she does. The panic she feels is palpable and sets the tone for the rest of the film. The killer has inadvertently left an identifying calling card behind, one which she discovers by accident, just in time for him to come back and search for it. The race is on as Sara eludes the murderer in an attempt to avoid the fate her family met. Throughout the film there are visual clues to the killers identity but the culprit is still a surprise. Great suspense without the gore that is so often part of horror flicks nowadays.
SEEING IS BELIEVING British film of the Vietnam era with Farrow stealing the show in her role as a blinded girl recovering her place in the world.She's just beginning to re-connect with a former boyfriend when a mass murderer goes on a rampage, killing her entire household in beautiful,rural England. While the motive for the murders remains a mystery, it's Farrow who finds the corpses, a full 18 hours after their demise.It seems quite a "stretch" that the muderer, given several opportunities to kill Farrow too, especially at the end of the film,fails to do so. But, Farrow's incredible perfomance,surpassing that of Audrey Hepburn in "Wait Until Dark",has the power to overcome most of the weak points in the film's script. In summary, it's now a difficult film to locate, but one well worth the search.
See no evil is not really worth seeing It may have been scary back in 1971, but this slow paced thriller gave me a bit of a yawn and I needed to reach for the fast forward button to get to the good bits. This film reminds me of another english thriller called FEAR which is about a baby sitter.
Mia Farrow is convincing as a blind woman who returns to a house where her auntie and uncle have been murdered, but she does not realise straight away. THe killer returns to collect an item he left behind and she must fend for her life.
Has been done better in alot of other films. You could easily give this a miss.
Mia Farrow contributes an additional assault on our emotions... In "Blind Terror", Mia Farrow had lost her sight in a fall from her horse, but had come to terms with her handicap and was calm, gay and happy to be reunited with her former lover, Steve (Norman Eshley).
Then the first threads of menace appear: a man, seen only as a pair of high-heeled cowboy-style boots, watches the family constantly... We become aware of his envy of their security and their money, and of Sarah's happiness at being home... And then the threat increased into stark horror... Returning home from a ride with Steve, Sarah discovers the bodies, one by one, of her family, murdered in her absence...
Can you imagine the awful progression of such a discovery in a sightless world?
Petrified in her darkness, Sarah stumbles towards the kitchen, to get out for help... She opens the wrong door and falls down the cellar steps... Recovering consciousness, she hears footsteps overhead...
She makes it to the hall, feels her way towards the front door-but it opens towards her and the family gardener is there, shot in the stomach, trying to warn her...
Now gripped by panic, Sarah makes her way cautiously to the stables, gets her horse and leads it out-only to be thrown and left alone in the deserted countryside...
There is more to come... She walks with uncertain, uneven steps, meets a gypsy, and utters breathlessly to him her story... Unsuspectingly, she hands over her one piece of vital evidence-a broken bracelet inscribed 'Jacko.' We can see, but she cannot... The man's look of alarm as he snatches it from her...
It is Steve who rescues her, frightened and covered in mud from scratching her way out of a clay pit... He takes her home... She seems safe at last... She prepares to take a bath... And as she closes the door, we see the telltale cowboy 'boots' standing in the corner... They walk towards her...
For those who like to scream, "Blind Terror" is a competent but routine heart-stopper...
These Boots Were Made For Stalkin'... SEE NO EVIL is an excellent horror / thriller movie w/ loads of suspense and mystery! Mia Farrow (Rosemary's Baby) is Sarah, a blind woman who is staying w/ relatives in the country for some rest and relaxation. Well, she is rudely interrupted by a local maniac (we only get to see his legs and distinctive cowboy boots) who slaughters her family while she's out. Sarah returns home, unaware of the carnage around her. She walks through the big house, right past the dead bodies! Sarah's blindness works extremely well to heighten the tension. Meanwhile, the killer realizes that he's left something behind and must return to the murder scene in order to recover it. Yep, this is a classic!...
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