Eat Your Heart Out Absolutely Hits the Mark
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In Eat Your Heart Out they may break a few zombie rules, but you will get over it. Best-Horror-Movies.com has an exclusive look with the first-ever review.
Written by BHM Editor Don Sumner
February 2, 2007
Movie Trailer
Release: 2007
Directed by: James Tucker
Written by: Joshua Nelson
Starring:
Melissa Bacelar as Pandora
Jack Dillon as Jeffrey
Joshua Nelson as The Stalker
I love independent horror. Not all independent horror mind you, but the features that exceed the sum of their budgets. Somehow, most of the low budget independent horror movies that I like have something to do with zombies, too. Go figure.
Successful Independent horror has one thing that no Hollywood mega-feature could ever have: imagination and originality that is mandatory to the success of the film. I am not saying that big-budget horror cannot be original or imaginative of course, but when there is big money for gore, location, computer-generated graphics, animatronics, acting talent etc. then the originality and imagination can afford to be a bit more subtle. Not so in Independent cinema. The success of independent horror lives and dies by the quality of the viewing experience and the ways that a savvy and passionate film maker can turn a little money into a big impact.
Take Eat Your Heart Out for example.
The opening scene in Eat Your Heart Out, after a few aerial shots to confirm that the setting is New York City, shows a goofy guy in his underwear nervously talking to the voluptuous hooker that he has hired for the night. We never see the face of this John’s “date” so we don’t know what she looks like, but her sultry voice and roaming hands let us know that this dude is in for the night of his life. Suddenly, without warning, the “babe of the night” bites down on this guy’s lower lip and rips his entire chin from his face. Of course, she eats it. This is just the prelude.
Meanwhile somewhere else in Manhattan, Jeffrey (played by Jack Dillon) is talking to himself in his mirror about how great the new day is going to be. Then he collapses, admitting that it won’t be great at all. His life sucks, and he is a complete dork. Not only does he have a stupid job, no friends and an over-bearing sister that won’t stay out of his business, but he can’t get a single date. And man does he try. He asks women out at work, on the phone, everywhere…no dice. So, he does what any red-blooded loser that can’t get a date would do – he calls escort services. A lot.
The funny thing is, even the paid escorts don’t want anything to do with him after their “paid time” is over. Then he meets Pandora (Melissa Bacelar). A hooker? Sure, who else would come to his house? But she is “different”. She actually likes him. They fall in love. But Pandora has a secret (a BIG secret). Can their love survive it?
Eat Your Heart Out is an example of excellent independent horror.
The Eat Your Heart Out script is great – and appropriately funny. Not only does the dialogue flow and actually make sense, but there are great one-liners that had me laughing out loud. Particularly notable are when Pandora admits that she is an “abomination of God” and Jeffrey replies “You’re Mormon?”, and when the escort Passion (Pronounced Pash-shon, played by a very funny Erika Smith) complains about the gross John that had one of those “uncrucified penises”.
The acting is first-rate. Jack Dillon is perfect as the over-frustrated and under-ambitious Jeffrey, and Melissa Bacelar is absolutely stunning as the larger-than-life hungry hooker Pandora. The bit players were great also, each adding at least one little element that helped make Eat Your Heart Out an enjoyable time.
Oh, and the gore is fantastic. Over the top, show no mercy “yell out loud” gore, that’s what we’re treated to in Eat Your Heart Out. Plus, she EATS it ALL!! Beautiful.
The one complaint I had while watching Eat Your Heart Out comes from the point of view of a zombie movie lover. It broke the rules! Maybe I am a bit sensitive to the rules of zombiedom because of my interaction with the BHM resident Zombie Master Lee Roberts, but rules are rules. A good shot to the head TAKES A ZOMBIE DOWN! I don’t think that the creators of Eat Your Heart Out knew that. There are other zombie rules that were broken also, but I was ready to let those others slide until the failed head-shot. That was too much for me to take.
Rule-breaking aside, Eat Your Heart Out is a great flick that I am certain will have wide distribution soon. Eat Your Heart Out is not scary (at all), but is a great story that has zombies, young lovelies in panties, topless hookers, sawed-off fingers and lots of human flesh-feasting. Now if we can just get these folks familiar with the zombie rules, the sky’s the limit. � Questions or comments about Eat Your Heart Out?� Contact us!
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