646f9e108c Zack Connors and Rachel Meadows were born with incredible psychokinetic capabilities. When word of their supernatural talents gets out, they find themselves the prisoners of Michael Slovak, a deranged doctor intent on harvesting their powers. After a daring escape, they are free from his sinister institution, but the corrupt doctor will stop at nothing to track them down so that he may continue to siphon their gifts for his own use. Here&#39;s a Fresh Meat review of &quot;The Mind&#39;s Eye&quot; (NR - 2015 - US)…Your services are no longer required.<br/><br/>Genre: Horror/Paranormal My Score: 4.8<br/><br/>Cast=4 Acting=2 Plot=6 Ending=7 Story=4 Scare=4 Jump=3 F/X=7 Creep=3 Gore=8<br/><br/>Zack and Rachel were born with psychokinetic capabilities. When word of their supernatural talents gets out, they find themselves the prisoners of a deranged doctor intent on harvesting their powers.<br/><br/>Once I saw that the lead looked like a love child between Zach Galifinakis and Daniel Radcliffe…I lowered my expectations. The acting was extraordinarily bad, making it a tough pill to swallow. The gore however, was really good…that was the only part that actually reminded me of &quot;Scanners&quot;. Considering the lack of budget and the temperature where they were filming, I was really impressed with how good the blood was. If all you were looking for was gore, then it would be worth seeing. If you&#39;re looking at the total package, this is barely a meh. If this feature stood on it&#39;s own, it might have made a weak 4 on my list, buta rip off of the 1981 classic it barely gets a 2. So let&#39;s settle then on 3. <br/><br/>Though the story line deviates from David Cronenberg&#39;s Scanners, this feature is a clear rip off from Scanners with very obvious parallels – even a classic reference to the forced veins on the face of Michael Slovak, the deranged scientist. <br/><br/>Someone clearly forgot to tell this movie maker though that if you are going to try and emulate the style of a legendary director like Cronenberg, one should probably at least try and come up with an original idea or study the thematic content of that particular director before putting out a half-bred attempt to cash in on a new generation that would not know the classic. <br/><br/>But with a very weak story line, a complete lack of thematic content, an over obvious choice to emulate Cronenberg&#39;s style and an insulting lack of innovation and originality, the best thing about this film is the B-grade special effects that is slightly nostalgic of early Rob Zombie films. Begos gets the texture and atmosphere right, but there’s nothing beneath his cool ’80s fog.
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