Eye for an Eye (2025) poster
2025 · horror · supernatural · monster

Eye for an Eye

Directed by Colin Tilley1h 41m2025
ElsewhereIMDb4.9813RT85%
  • sombre
  • brisk
  • extreme
  • surreal
Movie DNA

Sombre, kinetic, extreme horror / supernatural, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Anna, grieving the sudden death of her parents, relocates from New York to a small Florida town to live with the grandmother she has never met. Isolated, vulnerable, and in need of friends, she finds brief solace in the company of two local teens. But when she becomes complicit to their unforgivable act of violence, she finds herself ensnared by Mr. Sandman – the twisted soul of a tormented child who haunts bullies’ dreams before feasting on their eyeballs when they finally wake - Anna must right her wrong before becoming a victim of this gruesome curse.

Our read · Eye for an Eye (2025) reads as a sombre, kinetic, surreal horror · supernatural · monster entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want atmospheric folk horror with a vengeful dream entity exacting justice.

ends unsettlingit leaves you shakengrabs you earlygrips from the openattention 4/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgoregraphic violencebody horrorchild peril

Skip it tonightYou hate gore or eye violence and stories of complicity.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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