midge56 The sound effects & pursuit technique scared the hell out of me and this is saying something because I was raised on Twilight Zone, Outer limits and a plethora of drive-in horror movies as a child & toddler. So less than a handful of thousands of films ever affected me. Those were "The Brain that wouldn't die" "Five" "Saturn 3" and "Darkness". To a lesser degree "Haunting in Connecticut" "Ring" & "The Grudge".Most of the other reviewers were either neophytes who were not born when this film came out or skeptics who would not appreciate any UF0 film. It would be tantamount to me reviewing Westerns. I don't like Westerns, so I have no business reviewing one since I could never give a fair opinion of a genre I didn't like. Neophytes who were not alive in the 50's-80's should not be judging films or methods which they have no direct knowledge or experience of those timeframes. Much less compare them to modern styles & technologies.At The end of the film is a screen statement which says it is based on a true story & all the gov't info was factual. You cannot apply cinematic criticism to a true story. To do so demonstrates the lack of maturity level in someone who cannot separate depiction of truth versus fiction. Let's give this film the leeway that it is based on a true story as it has stated. We cannot dispute this claim since none of us were present. Those who go out of their way to dispute the veracity of these events are usually some gov't hireling spreading disinfo or some know nothing bully trying to exert dissension & control to satiate their need to belittle others. So let's take the producers word that this film is based on true events.This is a British film setting so it is typically low key.Here are the spoiler events of the film: The film begins with a photographer & his model accidentally filming ET's in the background of a photo session. The photographer returns to the location, becomes terrified & runs to a nearby home for refuge. The model becomes concerned & a media friend takes the photographers negatives & consults a UF0 expert while the model returns to the location to search for the photographer who was since taken by the ET's. The model also disappears.Neighbors notice 2 abandoned cars & call police. The house the photographer sought for refuge was discovered to have a fired shotgun in the yard, an unconscious owner who died soon after & a blinded dog. The ET's go around destroying evidence. The couple reporting the cars are found dead and military soldiers guarding a UF0 landing site are found dead from radiation. A "men in black" British organization called "the Silencers" takes over. Unlike MIB, they beat up, steal evidence, & kill witnesses with brutal deliberation. They confiscate the negatives & everything else. Police find the model catatonic. The media reporter discovers his assistant is a Silencer who has been spying & helped kidnap the model.The reporter & UFO expert rescue the model, kill the bad guys & find a psychic to communicate. The model dies. The Silencers arrive & machine gun down the reporter & UF0 expert. The photographer is shown dead in the UFO which departs after all the evidence & witnesses are dead.Despite the pace & low key style, I found the movie quite interesting & downright scary.I only recommend this movie to UF0 buffs.

Bezenby Franco Garofalo, some years before quite rightly winning best Oscar for his performance as the undead-baiting, wild eyed Santoro in Zombie Creeping Flesh, plays in this film an alien-baiting, wild eyed photographer called Peter. Now, Peter's out on a photo shot with girlfriend Sherry Buchanan (some years before SHE won best Oscar for having her vocal chords removed in Zombie Holocaust), and although he notes that it's rather creepy out there, it's not until he gets home when he notices he's captured some strange figures in the background.Heading back out to the photo shoot, Peter is then abducted by some aliens who also blind a dog and irradiate some poor fellow. Sherry informs her journalist friend that she's going looking for him, but not before giving him some negatives. Then she vanishes too. Now our hack Tony's going to have to do some investigating, which isn't going to be easy as the cops (led by Martin Balsam, who's hilariously been dubbed by a Yorkshire accent) tells him to take nowt to do w' it.Tony teams up with his UFOlogist mate Coleman and with his secretary also helping out, Tony has to deal with the cops, a special, creepy branch called the silencers, and those aliens themselves, who tend to turn up rather a lot to clear up some clues themselves.At first, I thought this was going to be a snore-fest. Although there was plenty of atmosphere to begin with, it looked like there wasn't going to be too much going on after that. I was wrong though. If it isn't the Silencers turning up now and again to put the squeeze on Tony and give him a kicking, the aliens also appear often to make sure no ones got evidence. These days it would be all posted on Youtube and the aliens could have just typed in 'Fake!' and that would be that.There's loads of double crosses, espionage, proper references to UFO occurrences, and a nice soundtrack. For a late seventies Italian film, there's absolutely no gore, sex and (thankfully) animals getting killed, so that's refreshing for a start. As daft as the aliens look, they still manage to be creepy, as does the final image of what happened to Peter.This is a nice diversion from the usual carnage. Those with patience might like it.

phasedin For some reason, in the late 70's and early 80's the local CBS affiliated station in New York kept playing this movie in it's late-night slot on Friday or Saturday nights for several years, usually at 2 a.m. or some such time. It's a fitting movie for that time slot since it's really hard to follow and quite odd (see the other reviews for specific story info). Anyway, after catching it numerous times in those days just before cable TV (And even after it hit but before they offered much all night programming), I kept catching this little oddity. After not seeing it for many years I decided to see if I could find it on DVD. Well, it is only available (from every search i've conducted anyway)in a pretty lousy grainy print on the budget label "Brentwood Video" as part of a 4-pack of movies (4 movies on 2 double sided discs)called "Alien Worlds" if anyone is interested. It's usually available for around $10-but even much less if you shop around. The other 3 movies on this set are readily available in numerous other collections of public domain movies, so no need to comment on them here. But I haven't seen "Eyes" available anywhere else. Though hardly a "restored" version in any way, this print runs exactly 92 minutes, so for once IMDb's stated running time of 90 minutes is not correct. Even with the 92 minute running time it's not unusual for a movie dubbed into English from another language to also have some of the running time trimmed. It seems to be a common budget-conscience practice to sometimes save money by not bothering to dub some scenes at all if they are not considered to be important to the story. Would a longer version make in any less confusing? Who really knows-unless you've seen it in it's native language... By the way, my attempts to watch this during the day don't work and I end up just turning it off. There's something about watching this in the middle of the night that just fits this movie..or maybe it's just from my earlier experiences, who know??

Maciste_Brother I like movies about UFOs, which is why I recently decided to rewatch EYES BEHIND THE STARS after seeing it when I was a kid back in the late 1970s. And now I'm compelled to write a review about it because I'm afraid I'll start forgetting everything about it FAST. You see, even though EBTS ain't bad, it's VERY dull and nondescript. The story is sorta interesting but flat. The actors are good but their roles are boring and a little confusing. The FX are terribly amateurish but I can overlook something like that if the movie is compelling, which, unfortunately, this one ain't.Also, there's very little violence and there's no nudity whatsoever, which makes this 1970s Italian sci-fi opus a TRUE oddity, because if there's one thing that distinguishes Italian genre movies made in the 1970s from genre movies of other countries made in the same decade, it's the astonishing amount of violence and sex to be found in them. Oddly enough, because of the almost complete lack of exploitive elements, EBTS stands out from the rest of the pact. I don't know if this can be seen as a compliment though. Personally, I can enjoy a movie without sex and violence but I think EBTS NEEDED more violence and some sex here and there to spice it up because it is so deadly dull and dry. And the special effects aren't that special.The story itself is actually interesting. It's a combo of THE X-FILES and Antonioni's BLOWUP: a photographer accidentally captures aliens on film during a fashion shoot in the country. The aliens know they were captured on film and they proceed to kidnap the photographer and a model, subsequently destroying any evidence of their presence on earth. The problem starts when the model meets a man at the recently abducted photographer's apartment (this taking place just before she's to be abducted herself). The man takes some of the negatives and leaves, with the aliens having no knowledge of the missing negatives. The whole story is about this man wanting to know more about the aliens and a secret spy group who want to get a hold of the negatives. The majority of the movie centers around boring political intrigue, in the spy vs spy variety. The UFO element of the story is almost unimportant and could have easily been replaced by any cold war McGuffin. But as dull as EYES BEHIND THE STARS is, it does resemble THE X-FILES a LOT! I wonder if Chris Carter saw this movie. Anyway, the best thing in EBTS are the POV shots, which are creepy and effective. But the rest is almost completely forgettable, including the goofy looking aliens.Even though I've been mostly negative about this film, I sorta cherish it nonetheless. I still remember the effective ad campaign which scared me when I saw it as a kid. And I own the video. The film could have been so much more if it had been done properly. Oh well...