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Starry Eyes

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Starry Eyes
Starry Eyes 2014 film poster.jpg
Directed byKevin Kölsch
Dennis Widmyer
Produced byTravis Stevens
Written byKevin Kölsch
Dennis Widmyer
StarringAlex Essoe
Amanda Fuller
Noah Segan
Music byJonathan Snipes
CinematographyAdam Bricker
Edited byBrody Gusar
Dennis Widmyer
Production
company
Snowfort Pictures
Parallactic Pictures
Dark Sky Films
Release dates
  • March 8, 2014 (SXSW)
Running time
98 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Starry Eyes is a 2014 horror film directed and written by Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer. The film had its world premiere on March 8, 2014 at South by Southwest and features Alexandra Essoe as a hopeful young starlet that finds that fame's price is not always easily paid.[1] Funding for the movie was partially raised through a successfulKickstarter campaign.[2]

Synopsis[edit]

Sarah (Alex Essoe) is a hopeful young woman that is desperate to become famous, but is stuck waitressing at aHooters-esque restaurant named Big Taters. Her boss Carl (Pat Healy) is frustrated with how Sarah's auditioning will occasionally interfere with her job but is unwilling to fire her. Her friends are generally unsupportive and selfish, as Erin (Fabianne Therese) is constantly trying to undermine Sarah and steal her roles and the others are lackadaisical about Sarah's efforts and Erin's actions. This is partially due to them being overly involved with themselves and partially due to Sarah purposely distancing herself from the others. The only person who appears to be interested in her well-being is Sarah's roommate Tracy (Amanda Fuller) and Danny (Noah Segan), an aspiring film director and photographer that seems to have a romantic interest in Sarah.
Her prospects at stardom look dim until Sarah takes an audition for the film The Silver Scream, which is being held by the powerful production company Astraeus Pictures. Her audition is met with a lackluster response by the Casting Director (Maria Olsen) and the Assistant (Marc Senter) and Sarah is summarily dismissed from the room. Upset, Sarah goes into a nearby bathroom in the building the auditions are being held in and proceeds to self-harm by ripping her hair out, a move that gains the interest of the Casting Director. Wanting to gain the role, Sarah returns to the audition room and reluctantly acquiesces to the Casting Director's demand that she self-harm again in front of them. Once this is completed, Sarah is dismissed again, much to her confusion, but she is overjoyed when she gets a callback to a second audition. She eagerly returns to the building and is caught off guard when she is now commanded to disrobe. Sarah again reluctantly agrees to their demands and after being told to open herself up to the potential to "transform", she experiences extreme euphoria and undergoes a trance state, during which she notices that the Casting Director is wearing a pentagram necklace. While in this state of euphoria, Sarah quits her job at Big Taters and begins to show some mild erratic behaviors, like laughing at one of her friends breaking her nose.
It is only when Sarah is called to a third audition that she balks at the demands of the employees of Astraeus, as she is now expected to have sex with the Producer (Louis Dezseran). Sarah refuses and runs home, where she confesses the night's events to Tracy. Humiliated, Sarah has to beg for her job back from Carl. After talking to Danny, Sarah decides to return to the Producer's house, where she performs oral sex on him. During the following days, Sarah shows more and more erratic behavior even while her body begins to deteriorate, which causes her to lose her job and attack several people, including her friends. Sarah eventually has a heated argument with Tracy and retreats to her room, where she sees the Casting Director and has a vision of herself as a beautiful and glamorous movie idol. She awakens from the dream and goes to the bathroom to vomit, where she finds that her hair and nails have almost completely fallen out. With her last bit of energy, Sarah manages to answer her cell phone, where the Producer taunts her and tells her that she can either die or she can embrace the transformation and become like him. Sarah then begins to embrace the transformation and ends up systematically murdering her friends one by one as part of this process. The film ends with Sarah completing her transformation and being reborn as a new member of the Astraeus cult.

Cast[edit]

Production[edit]

After writing the script, Widmyer and Kölsch sought funding for Starry Eyes through Kickstarter.[3] The campaign attracted Pat Healy to the film, and the campaign ended with the goals met.[4] Filming took place in Los Angeles in May 2013 over an 18 day period.[5][6]

Release[edit]

The film was released February 3, 2015 on DVD and Blu-ray Disc.[7]

Critical reception[edit]

Critical reception has been positive and the film currently holds a rating of 76% at Rotten Tomatoes, based on 17 reviews.[8] In their review Fangoria remarked that "Kolsch & Widmyer are clearly attuned to the pitch black nature that consumes Sarah but, like the alluring score, there’s something stirring in her eventual transformation of living through an actor’s worst cosmetic nightmare and still forcibly taking what she wants."[9] Shock Till You Drop and Bloody Disgusting also praised the film,[10] with Bloody Disgusting commenting that although the film did have flaws "[those] same elements that provide its flaws also supply its strengths, which are far more prevalent."[11] TIME has called the film one of the ten best films of South by Southwest.[12]

Awards[edit]

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