Open your Eyes. Very original and quite disturbing. Moves beyond those tired traditional Hollywood vaporous plots. Enjoy something fresh here.

I'm amazed I hadn't heard of this sooner. Loved it! Acting, story line, effects...everything!! KimD

Starry Eyes from directors Kevin Kolsch & Dennis Widmyer, bring a tale of fake friendships, struggling actors & throw it all into a nightmarish dark decent of the personal price & lengths one will go for fame before spiralling into a slow transformation of pure blood-soaked rage. Lead actress Alex Essoe delivers a wonderful & bloody performance as the struggling wannabe star, that brings an unnerving mix of ambition, fear & uncomfortable panic-inducing self injuries. 

Biggest waste of time ever. Pointless film with no coherent story. Don't bother.

quite stupid and pointless movie

The actress and the acting was great, the overall movie plot was not.

One of my all-time, B-movie faves!!! From the first line ("Welcome to Big Taters!") this movie sizzles. It's funny, titillating, campy, intelligent, brutal and truthful. The characterizations are awesome, the situations are plausible and the dialogue is sharp. The trick of this movie is not to take it seriously, but to take it literally. People think it is hyperbole about an ambitious actress. It's more like the actuality of any actress that has "made it" and become a household name, a step-by-step recipe. If the film goes "over the top" at it's violent end, that is a good thing which makes it enjoyable to fans of the genre, because real Hollywood violence is more pathetic and depressing than it is entertaining. Is it "faustian"? Of course. Is it cliché? Whatever. Truth is always cliché. The challenge is to make it pop. This film does.

Was going through the menu on my peacock app & the poster on this movie caught my attention. This movie rattled my brain & pretty much gives everyone a perspective of Hollywood.

A decent but can be easily forget horror

it has it's moments, but most of the good parts are unrelated to the main plot. there is far too much preparation for an ending without much emphasis. the protagonist goes through all these crazy things to meet her goal, but i think we needed at least another 20 minutes more slasher content and 20 minutes less of the vomiting and menstruation. there is a lot of focus on the female lead's body, some of which is borderline pornographic and some which is decidedly desexualized, and while i appreciate that attempt at contrast, it wasn't entirely clear what the message was. as for some critics calling it satirical, it was often unclear which parts were supposed to be funny or which satirical, although the restaurant was obviously silly. it still just didn't make me laugh much, and the story wasn't scary or unique enough for me to say it was "good" even if the lead was pretty good at acting.

The irony in a film about a character trying to break into show business, played by an actress in her mainstream debut role that has been largely shoehorned into horror projects ever since. Much like Black Swan, Starry Eyes is a film about the self-destructive pursuit of fame, recognition, and success at all costs, but transplanted to the grimy world of Hollywood casting couches and featuring a much more conventional horror bent (lacking most of the psychological elements and replacing them with blood effects). While billed as a biting satire of the tit-for-tat unspoken exchanges that are notorious for making or breaking careers in the movie industry, there aren't any particular insights or clever interpretations that you haven't seen before; most of the film is spent exploring a relatively traditional 'struggling starlet' environment, just stretched out in an attempt to make the radical lengths that Alexandra Essoe's Sarah is willing to go seem palatable. Essoe's performance and the melancholic, inescapable environment she inhabits are the best part of the film, it's more the stark contrast between the slow-burn establishing segments and the late slasher territory (which doesn't seem to really tie into the main themes) that make the film something of a disappointment. Not much of a surprise that writer-director team Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer had to go outside of Hollywood to find funding for their film about how gross the industry can be. (2/5)

I liked this movie. Then again, I like most movies that aren't main stream. My 32 year old daughter and I love horror/thriller movies. I recommended this one. She told me after seeing it that it was one of the most scariest and horrific films she's ever seen and the one movie that I recommended that she had nightmares about. If that isn't an effective horror movie, I don't know what is.

Alexandra Essoe delivers a brilliant performance in this bleak body horror film. In a way, Starry Eyes serves as a dark portrayal of the Hollywood Industry. The protagonist's transition from human to monster was especially tragic and uncomfortable to witness. Despite the somewhat rough execution, Starry Eyes is still quite underrated (considering the fact that a lot of people don't know that it exists) and decently made. It might not scare the life out of you, but I assure you that it will keep you engaged till the very end.

This movie is very unsettling with its' ominous soundtrack that will keep any horror movie fan on their feet.

Though not everyone will like the third act and may be uneven in spots, this one should not be missed. It lingers on in the mind long after watching it.

A tight little horror character-study number. Not profound, but glad I didn't miss it.

A more profound take on satanic horror. The limits as well as turns this film takes are impressive. 7.1/10, B-

I mean some parts of the acting and the beginning was good but it turned lame and pointless pretty quickly. I want to forget even watching it now.

A young actress trying to hit the big time sacrifices her life in a desperate attempt to be the next big thing but at what cost will it bring for her & the people around her. Recommended.

What would you do for fame? To be reborn into the upper class? Really cool little retelling of Faust. I wonder how this would play now, in the #metoo climate...