Eyeball (1975)
Day 108 of Sobriety. Eyeball is a giallo by Umberto Lenzi, who is perhaps best known to horror fans for directing a couple of the better-known Italian cannibal films, including the notorious Cannibal Ferox (1981). His resume also includes a number of other well-regarded giallo and poliziotteschi (crime films). Not much in the way of straight-up horror, but he did direct 1988’s Ghosthouse (AKA La Casa ), which I watched recently and wrote about on this blog. The plot follows a group of American tourists who are traveling around Spain on a tour bus, and who start to get murdered one-by-one by an unknown killer whose trademark is gouging out one of the victim’s eyeballs. I don’t know why I keep watching movies like this, but I do. Objectively speaking, pretty much every aspect of Eyeball is ridiculous. The characters that comprise the small tour group are all complete oddballs: a lesbian “photographer” and her model girlfriend, a bickering couple comprising a bitchy ...