The Eyes of My Mother

Simone joins us yet again for a tribute to Mother’s Day, only a week late. This slow burn creep-fest really got under our skin and we enjoyed discussing its many nuances.

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The Eyes of My Mother (2016)

Episode 81, 2 Guys and a Chainsaw Horror Movie Review Podcast

Todd: Hello and welcome to another episode of 2 Guys and a Chainsaw. I’m Todd.

Craig: I’m Craig.

Todd: And today with us, one of our favorite special guests. Say hi to the people, Simone.

Simone: Hey, guys. Good to be back.

Todd: We’re really happy to have Symone back with us today. Actually, she suggested this week’s film in honor of mother’s day, which by the time you hear this will have already happened. But, Simone, what movie did you choose?

Simone: I chose the 2016 film, The Eyes Of My Mother. And this was a movie that I had, heard had come out in the states, but of course, living abroad, I wasn’t able to see it in the theater. And I picked it up in one of our favorite little knockoff DVD stores over here, and gave it a shot. And man, oh, man, was this this is a very drastic change from the last time I was on this show talking about the fly.

Todd: That’s right. No Jeff Goldblum in this one for 1. Unfortunately, no. Not really many men in this one not not many characters really, actually.

Simone: Yeah. A small cast.

Todd: Yeah. Craig, I knew nothing about this movie. Did had you heard of this film before?

Craig: I don’t think so. I don’t think I had heard anything about it, and I just watched it. I didn’t look anything up. I didn’t know anything about it. So I didn’t know if this was a new movie, an old movie. I had no idea. And so when it started and I could tell that based on the cinematography and whatnot that it was a Todd, film, I was a little bit surprised. And I would say that that’s a good way of of describing my feelings about the movie overall. A little bit surprised. It’s an interesting film.

Todd: It really is. Interesting is a good way of putting it. Yeah. I’m glad you picked it, Simone, because we try to do all kinds of different, you know, types of movies. Mhmm. And I was surprised because, it was all in black and white, first of all. I I thought when it started out in black and white, for sure, we were seeing a flash back, and then pretty soon it would change. You know? But this is a pretty interesting choice nowadays for a 2016 horror film to go black and white. It it kinda shows the director is going for, like, art house. Mhmm. You know?

Simone: A film noir kind of thing, if you will.

Todd: Yeah. It’s not, you know, a lot of the horror movies now that are coming out, it seems to be, you know, we’ve talked about this before, like a genre that’s kind of revived in popularity again. Mhmm. But there’s so many of them getting churned out that they’re just all so commercial. You imagine that a person really wouldn’t be putting out a black and white horror film unless they really interested in more than just, like, making money. You know what I

Simone: mean? And this is unconventional in the way that other horror movies of this day and age are going and that it’s not a remake, I believe.

Todd: Oh, yeah. It’s kind

Simone: of an original idea. And the black and white really works because, Craig, you had mentioned it’s modern, but when we were watching it, like, I couldn’t decide what modern era. Like, people didn’t have cell phones. The the trucks and the cars looked maybe a little old. So we were guessing maybe, like, eighties, early nineties.

Todd: Yeah.

Simone: But then because of the, like, remote location of where the set takes place in this kind of small town, that also could help with, you know, a town that’s maybe a little, bit behind in the times. Yeah. But I think black and white really works with this film because in in a lot of the scary movies, especially the remakes that we see, it relies so much on, like, blood and gore and everything’s, like, doused in the color red. But this movie was very effective and very creepy, and we know that there’s blood. We we see it happening, but I guess encased in black and white, it’s just something old timey and off. It’s very haunting.

Todd: It mutes the the gore and the blood quite a bit, doesn’t it? Yeah. I mean, there’s a point in this movie where there’s a big puddle of blood on the floor, and you’re not even sure...