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  Review by Waldo ★★★★★ 10

  Sinister, dark, brutal, I fucking loved it. Alex Essoe gives a brilliant, punishing, literally, performance. Pat Healy plays another sleaze with Burt Reynolds stache and everything. The girl that played Britanny Murphy on that horrible Lifetime movie is here too. The two directors here directed the shit out of their own Hollywood story. They have vision, style and balls. The score is great also. Reminded me a bit of Mulholland Dr. Thanks Matt for the factoid.

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  Review by DirkH ★★★ 12

  This is one of those films that would have benefited from more and/and and less either/or.

  Starry Eyes starts off as a slow burn, disconcerting thriller with an absolutely outstanding female lead. Alex Essoe owns this role. She gives life to Sarah in a nuanced and affectionate way, reeling in the sympathy of the audience with apparent ease.

  The directorial duo manage to conjure up a fantastically creepy atmosphere in the first two acts, shifting from real life worries to the more intangible dread of the supernatural. The world Sarah inhabits feels real, the problems she faces as a young actress with a self centred circle of friends are relevant and tangible, providing a very interesting mix of almost satirical…

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  Review by universzero ★★★½ 2

  🤬 Rampage (Human)—💎 Gem #38 (2014) 👻 Adorrifying Women in Horror 🩸 🎼 ♾️

  ”I told you, Sarah. Dreams require sacrifice. And so do we.”

  Neon Demon’s scrappy older cousin—two years earlier, much less polished, but when it goes dark, it becomes the film it is reborn to be. That will make more sense after you watch it. Which you should do.

  My first watch I remember finding it a bit rough and linear with good violence toward the end. That is what it is like, absolutely. The beginning of this film has room for improvement. The color is a bit desaturated and muddled for me, and the acting seems overacting. But it improves quickly and becomes a frolicksome adventure…

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  Review by Rosie✨ ★★★★★ 4

  What a perfect, unsettling, and well-thought-out indie horror film! Starry Eyes follows Sarah (played by Alex Essoe), a young actress who’s chasing stardom and finds out the hard way just how dark that path can get. The film is both captivating and disturbing, with Sarah’s descent into madness for fame driving the whole thing. Essoe is absolutely incredible here—she owns this role. The gore and blood effects are used just right, never over the top but really effective when they do show up. The score is great, and the direction is sharp, building up the anxiety as Sarah spirals. The third act? Absolutely brutal, no holding back. It’s a dark look at what people will do to make it in Hollywood, and the feeling of hopelessness sticks with you long after the movie ends.

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  Review by matt lynch ★½ 1

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  really blows the lid off Hollywood being a poisonous environment for women/hotbed of Satanic activity. plus "awesome" title font and synth score. it's at least an hour before the lead girl has to blow some old sleazeball, so extra half star for restraint i guess.

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  Review by Tony the Terror ★★★★½ 2

  Saw this back in 2015, but basically anything I saw that year was a total waste because I was too high on my daily Vyvanse-Adderall-Klonopin cocktail to actually pay attention to anything sooooo I finally got around to watching it again tonight and while I might not have felt that state of better living through science, I certainly was able to actually watch it and goddamn is it great.

  A story about the lengths people will go to for fame and adoration that’s one fun ride from start to finish. The main character is very well thought out and wonderfully performed by Alex Essoe. An excellent #metoo tale that was a few years ahead of its time. Some really effective…

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  Review by ༘ ade ༘ ★★★★

  Looks like it's about selling your soul to be a celebrity, huh.

  
  
  

  Starry Eyes is a well-made film taking a look at the damaging physical and psychological effects, that women go through in the Hollywood industry. Haunting, brutal and disturbing--this film sticks with you long after the credits have rolled. Alexandre Essoe gives a deeply convincing performance as the lead character who is thrown into a world of chaos and madness. How far would you go to achieve your dreams--this is precisely the question Starry Eyes ask.

  
  Since we all know the high power, the richest partake in some gross devilish acts, for example the child prostitution ring run by epstein and many more powerful people, it's important to have moderate skepticism to look at the world clearly. i mean, to get famous we hear that proverbial, sell your soul for fame.. so yeah lol

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  Review by Kodiak ★★★½ 3

  So this is pretty much the satanic panic version of The Neon Demon? Groovy.

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  Review by sydney ★★ 1

  "actually, let me explain to you how hard it is to be a woman in the movie industry. ladies, be extra bitchy to each other and strip down to your underwear." - two dudes

  honestly, cut out all the dialogue and you've got a solid four star movie. mute it and put Goblin on the stereo or something.

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  Review by Dave Taylor ★½ 7

  It’s the journey, not the destination.  
  If that phrase is true, then ‘Starry Eyes’ sucks.

  The protagonist had zero redeemable qualities. Her friends had less than that.

  And when all was said and done, what part of Sarah’s ‘transformation’ was necessary? The body horror, or the regular horror? Because neither seemed to be related to the ceremony which honestly appeared to the key to the whole thing.

  I kind of liked the ending...but it was like visiting Hawaii via a sinking life raft.

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  Review by sun ★★★

  To be honest, thought they were chanting ‘Meryl Streep’ at the end

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  Review by Buddy O ★★★★ 1

  Dark, Eerie, Unsettling. Magnificent score.

  Damn worth a watch.