ShangLuda Admirable film.

Bluebell Alcock Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

Kimball Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

rossbrew The Eve is a super spooky thriller with lots of suspense that keeps you involved and watching. I jumped out of my seat few times. The story was executed well, giving you just the right amount of suspense. The acting was very believable, and the characters were well casted. The cinematography was stylistic, and added to the creepy undertone of the movie. Highly recommend.

ASouthernHorrorFan Ritchie Steven Filippi shows some real talent in controlling the story and moving it even paced from start to finish. The cast all give very strong performances and really emote. The dialog moves nicely between character development scenes, and allow for you to really buy into these people and the nightmare situation they are in. Plus for the first 40 minutes or so you really don't get a sense to who is the killer. More on that later. The special effects are very minimal, as I stated before-everything is really PG here. There are some small moments with blood and a bit of quick violence, but everything stays mostly off camera and suggestive. Filippi nor writer Evan Bass, every get visceral, or gory with the horror so the effects remain mostly driven by the struggles and fears of these characters. Plus the atmosphere has elements of Hitchcock that play up the melodrama and shadowy backgrounds. Most of the film happens at night so the psychological side really does play out well in "The Eve". The film has a nice, classic thriller soundtrack mixed in that carries the atmosphere and emotion of this nightmare. Overall "The Eve" is a nice thriller for fans of the more 'Lifetime adjacent' stories that works more on emotion and less on horror. The film really does show Filippi and the rest of the cast and crew's talent, I really could find no fault in the performances, the story, the cinematography or even the toned down scenes that call for violence. My only real complaint is that I wanted to see some more blood and carnage, I wanted to really get into the kill scenes on this one. Plus it would have been nice if there was a bit of decor or something that really played on the whole "New Year's Eve" horror aspect of "The Eve". Still it is a decent "soft" thriller with a devious ending, and it does have the Auld Lang Syne used in a dark and creepy way!

tobyhubner I was always going to watch this movie because I spent a hell of a lot of time on Martha's Vineyard, the main location, and if you're not hobnobbing with the Edgartown Yacht club Set or hanging out with the POTUS at this private estate south of the airport, then lets face it, its a pretty damn creepy place and in real life I've experienced a lot of creepiness up there. We used to have a house next to a 200 year old cemetery and the housekeeper next door could be seen wandering the graves at night talking to people...especially around the graves of little kids...so was glad to see The Eve deliver not just a blood fest but a creepy and crafted thriller with a lot of suspense that is adult and NOT just teens so it tackles some real emotion and works its way into your head and delivers! Bravo!

PlayinUncleDew ...it was just terrible. Not a horror movie. No chills. No thrills. No suspense.My wife and I are horror fans and have spent time on the Vineyard in the winter so we were really excited about an indie horror movie shot in that setting. Unfortunately, the 2 stars I give the movie are for the setting only, the movie itself was a miss on every level. Poor acting, poor script (dialogue forced, unnatural), poor execution.The characters couldn't die fast enough for me. The only one character I enjoyed at all goes first. And in an unexplained way, bringing about a near comical response by his 'friends', who determine quickly that he has expired- without any visible signs of trauma- and left where he lay with a rising tide approaching.Too many contrived scenes with ridiculous dialogue delivered poorly to mention, but when you find yourself begging for a lame jump scare you know it's a bad movie. It was sealed when the girls ask Harrison why he was gone so long when he went to sneak into the neighbor's house in the dark to use their phone and he responds: "It was harder to get there than I thought it would be. I couldn't see and I had to deal with the bushes and thorns." Wow.As for the reviews invoking "throwback" type of horror, don't buy it. It is just so fundamentally weak in all respects that it can only be deemed an homage to other equally poor movies. Great to see the sleepy island in winter but other than that, a huge disappointment.