Michael Ledo The film opens on New Year's eve with a stabbed drunk grown male and a young girl cowering in a corner. Apparently years later we have a group of four spending New Year's Eve on Maratha's Vineyard. Harrison (Evan Bass) a slightly dysfunctional irritating personality brings along his girlfriend Lacey (Miranda Noelle Wilson) without telling the other two in the group. Lacey has intimacy issues and always spends New Years alone. Harrison has had a bad business deal with his buddy Scott (Al Thompson). Scott's former girlfriend Jenn (María DiDomenico) rounds out the group. There is also the creepy neighbor caretaker (Rick Estabrook).Things are not hard to figure out. In fact too easy. It would have been nice if there was some kind of twist (reverse plot spoiler) i.e. if the childhood killer had been an unseen brother and not the girl. Unfortunately the writing was far too simple. It was painful to sit through knowing what was going to happen with the film proceeding at a snail's pace.Guide: F-bomb. No sex or nudity.

rossbrew The Eve is a super spooky thriller with lots of suspense that keeps you involved and watching. I jumped out of my seat few times. The story was executed well, giving you just the right amount of suspense. The acting was very believable, and the characters were well casted. The cinematography was stylistic, and added to the creepy undertone of the movie. Highly recommend.

ASouthernHorrorFan Ritchie Steven Filippi shows some real talent in controlling the story and moving it even paced from start to finish. The cast all give very strong performances and really emote. The dialog moves nicely between character development scenes, and allow for you to really buy into these people and the nightmare situation they are in. Plus for the first 40 minutes or so you really don't get a sense to who is the killer. More on that later. The special effects are very minimal, as I stated before-everything is really PG here. There are some small moments with blood and a bit of quick violence, but everything stays mostly off camera and suggestive. Filippi nor writer Evan Bass, every get visceral, or gory with the horror so the effects remain mostly driven by the struggles and fears of these characters. Plus the atmosphere has elements of Hitchcock that play up the melodrama and shadowy backgrounds. Most of the film happens at night so the psychological side really does play out well in "The Eve". The film has a nice, classic thriller soundtrack mixed in that carries the atmosphere and emotion of this nightmare. Overall "The Eve" is a nice thriller for fans of the more 'Lifetime adjacent' stories that works more on emotion and less on horror. The film really does show Filippi and the rest of the cast and crew's talent, I really could find no fault in the performances, the story, the cinematography or even the toned down scenes that call for violence. My only real complaint is that I wanted to see some more blood and carnage, I wanted to really get into the kill scenes on this one. Plus it would have been nice if there was a bit of decor or something that really played on the whole "New Year's Eve" horror aspect of "The Eve". Still it is a decent "soft" thriller with a devious ending, and it does have the Auld Lang Syne used in a dark and creepy way!

pensacolacomputer You've got to be kidding me, Evan Bass has to be one of the worst writers, if not the worst writer on the face of the planet. As a comedy this movie kind of worked but I don't think that's what they were going for. The "actors" and I use that word loosely, are horrendously bad. The script is laughably funny. The plot? Who cares, this movie was horrendously bad. Please save yourself an hour and 20 minutes and do not watch this pathetic piece of garbage. However if you like making fun of movies, there is plenty here to make fun of. I had a few good laughs at just how horribly written, directed, and acted the "movie" was. You have been warned.