The Eyes of My Mother

Pesce’s first and best movie. Although a tad depressing, it’s super thrilling and horrific as well, and short and sweet

A slow, meditative examination of family, grief and our obsession with murder, The Eyes Of My Mother is a film that’s certainly not to everyone’s taste. If you like your horror quick and chockfull of scares, then this isn’t the movie for you. It has shots that go on for a long time, large gaps in conversation and not much dialogue. It’s one you need to have patience with and absorb everything that’s going on. The lead isn’t an interesting character on her own, but it’s the events she goes through and her increasingly erratic actions that make the story so interesting. I don’t think it was necessary to open the film with a scene from later on, but it does at least look distinctive and create a sense of mystery, one which hangs over the entire story. It’s proof that we don’t need to like our lead to find them compelling and engaging, and while it might strain your patience at times I still think that, at only 76 minutes, it’s more than worth the watch.

Twisted and beautifully brutal. Subtle, unsubtle, and unsettling. Pesce put to film an evil romance with loneliness that's portrayed by conditioned reality into an unconsciousness acceptance. Like salt to chocolate.

I saw this movie many years ago now, but I still vividly remember one of the first scenes in this movie, and it makes me cringe.

It didn't go anywhere, wouldn't recommend watching it to anyone. Terribly disappointing.

An attempt at using shock value to wow the viewer but it's just another serial-killer-esque romp done in poor taste that imparts no reward to the viewer. A thorough waste of time. Even its short runtime doesn't earn my forgiveness.

This is a unique movie. You don't see any Gore and there's no jump scares. But by the end, I didn't really know how to feel and I don't like movies that just abruptly and like this one did. I think it's good to put on before you go to bed but it's not something you'd re-watch.

Rating: 6/10. 63/100

A disturbing tale of a young woman and her journey of the disturbing horrors that have always surrounded her.

Will haunt you for its dark, creepy atmosphere.