Eyes of Fire

Film - 1983

8,0

10.6K

Eyes of Fire it's a movie with Dennis Lipscomb, Guy Boyd, Rebecca Stanley, Sally Klein, Karlene Crockett Full cast. Directed by Avery Crounse. Original title Eyes of Fire, runtime 86 minutes. Genres Horror, Western.

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Balkan Castevet

Folk horror with impactful and highly evocative images for a film that talks about colonial history and cursed lands. Avery Crounse's direction manages to create excellent atmospheres and construct suggestive shots in a story where vengeful spirits, harpies, the presence of the witch, therefore horror, supernatural elements inserted in a film that talks about American history, pilgrims, the promised land where we now know what was behind it, the massacres of the native populations. The narration shows how the preacher at the head of the expedition, Will, feels as a divine emissary and is instead in contrast with Marion who does not want the group to go beyond an area considered cursed by the local inhabitants, this does not go beyond the tree immersed in white, complete with a beautiful sequence. The clash between the two is well rendered as well as the fascination of the group of pilgrims who slowly loses towards Will. A film that shows dream sequences, signals that Will interprets as divine, he is saved from a hanging, a woman in the group regains her sight, this initially makes Will and the group of pilgrims believe that the area is actually the promised land. However, behind the presence of the spirits connected to nature, who observe, there is also the witch, Leah, who is in the group of the pilgrims and its dream sequences and impactful scenes are excellent and well managed. There is a strong fascination for the visual imagery of the film, the scenes where Leah is the protagonist are highly suggestive with images that also recall the cinema of Raul Ruiz. We are therefore talking about the pilgrims who colonized the lands, encouraging massacres, therefore the spirits ancients who take action to take revenge, it is the same nature, the same land that does not want, rejects the settlement of the pilgrims with Will at the head. It is also interesting that the Read all

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A preacher is accused of adultery and he and his followers are chased out of town and become stranded in an isolated forest which is haunted by the spirits of long dead Native Americans.