Day 10: Starry Eyes
Via: Netflix
Release Date - 2014
Synopsis: A woman's pursuit of Hollywood stardom puts her on a collision course with a satanic cult.
SPOILER ALERT - If you have not seen the movie do not read.
I'll start out by saying that this film was partly made due to its success on Kickstarter.
This film was awkward. Very well written at times but with a cheesy nature. We are introduced to our main character, Sarah, who is your typical starving actress/waitress. She longs to become a big star and succeed in the world of Hollywood. She works in a "Hooters" type of restaurant and is constantly trying out for new roles on her free time. Her friends seem to all be hippies of some sort with little ambition to do anything but party. We see glimpses of Sarah's odd behavior when she stresses over a part she may not have gotten. She'll get into some sort of deep, self-harming mindset and begin to pull out her hair until she feels satisfied with her punishment. The narrative of the film is really based on her life. Her relationships with them, her obsession with acting, her loneliness and those around her affecting her life.
It turns out that after a bad audition, Sarah goes into the bathroom to throw one of her fits, but someone is listening. It's one of the people representing the studio she just auditioned for. She looks at Sarah and asks her about her fit. She convinces Sarah to go back to the casting room and do it in front of the main representative for the studio. She does and the director loves it and tells her to comeback at a later date for more details about "the part" she will portray. We begin to see hints of Satanism and the connection to the studio. At this point in the film, it gets predictable and I really don't have to describe much more of the narrative. It's a basic overdone story from here-on. The studio wants her for something not related to film and she is willing to do anything to get the part she thinks is a movie.
Sarah obliges the studio with their every demand, including getting nude and performing fellatio on who we believe to be the director, but who is in fact, the leader of the Satanic cult. It gets pretty cheesy at this point until the end. The main things that saved this movie from being a complete disaster was the acting, the cinematography, the dialogue, the amazing effects, and the editing. Were it not for that, this film would be a typical B horror flick with an even worse script. It left me highly satisfied with the aforementioned qualities, but the script was just weak from beginning to end. So I was confused on how to feel at the end of the film. Either way, I would watch it again for its entertaining aspects.
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