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The DVD cover has a character with their eyes removed...I consider him lucky.

I swear if I ever direct a low budget horror film, I’m shopping it to Lionsgate.  For ever Saw they release twenty ultra-low budge cheapy film that should never see the light of day (I’m talking about you, Ulli Lomell).  While Sight isn’t quite that bad, it looks and feels like someone got a video camera for Christmas and got his friends together to make a movie.  It’s another case where someone’s ambition out does their talent and budget.

Jeffery is on the verge of killing himself after seeing vengeful spirits all his life ala Constantine.  Jeffery learns he’s not alone one night when he meets Dana while having coffee at the local bistro.  Dana sees the dead as well.  After forming a quick bond, Jeffery agrees to help Dana deliver food from a local soup kitchen to the sick and elderly.  While helping Dana, he meets Paul who tells him to stay away from Dana.  When Dana calls Jeffery in the middle of the night, he picks her up and takes her back to his place.  Enraged, Paul breaks into Jeffery’s place beats him into a coma.  Two-ish years later, Jeffery awakens from his coma and goes on an obsessive search for Dana.

I’ve got no problem with low budget filmmaking.  Some of my favorite films are low budget.  What I do have a problem with is a director trying to do stuff out of his range.  Writer/composer/director Adam Ahlbrandt is all over the place with this film.  He jumps around in time, the makeup looks like something a seven year-old would come up with and the acting…dear God…the acting.  Rarely have I seen two actors have less chemistry on screen than the two leads.  Clayton Haske (Jeffery) and Allison Persuad (Dana) are horrible together.  Persuad’s performance is painful to watch as he mopes around.  Then add Allison Persuad’s charmless acting and you’ve got two characters that look like they would rather be anywhere else.

Director Ahlbrandt does have a few moments where is able to squeeze out some tension and jump scares but everyone gets lucky sometimes.  What he does get right is the music.  It does help push the movie through the dull parts (coffee shop scene) and creates any moments of palpable tension.

Lionsgate has dumped a bunch of trailers on the disc for upcoming DVD releases as far as extra material goes.  I do love Lionsgate releases.  They’ve brought me some great unknown horror films over the years.  But they also keep dumping the trash of Ulli Lommell on us.  Sight isn’t as bad as a Lommell film but it’s not a film that anyone will really enjoy watching either.  If you see this DVD on the shelves, set your sights on something else.

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