Dr. Jordan Grady (Jonathan Norman) is a scientist who is working on a way to see into the 8th dimension. He hires homeless kid, Japlo (Ryan Van Steenis), for one of his experiments. Jordan tells the kid that he is going to put some drops in one of his eyes. Once the drops take effect, he will have him look into a piece of equipment and tell him what he sees.
After Jordan administers the drops, his wife, Rita (Jacqueline Lovell) shows up at the lab to complain about not getting enough attention from her husband. While they are squabbling, the drops in Japlo’s eyes begin to take effect. Japlo tries to get Jordan’s attention, but the mad scientist is busy arguing with his oversexed wife. Japlo gets up from his chair and looks into the eyepiece of the apparatus that Jordan referred to.
As he is looking into the eyepiece, something happens and the door to the 8th dimension opens. An entity comes through the doorway and into Japlo’s eye. The young man’s eye is taken over by the entity. The eyeball crawls out of Japlo and grows in size. Japlo dies. The giant eyeball grows to about six feet tall and glides out of the laboratory.
Jordan contacts his assistant, Morton (Costas Koromilas) to help him dispose of the homeless kid’s body. Jordan realizes that the eyeball is loose, but he has no idea that it has grown. As Jordan and Morton look for what they think is a small eye, the actual giant eyeball from the 8th dimension begins roaming around the apartment building seducing and having sex with all the women.
What no one knows is that the alien is a scout who, in addition to trying to procreate, is paving the way for the invasion of other eye creatures from the 8th dimension.
“The Killer Eye” was released in 1999 and was directed by David DeCoteau. It is an American low budget science fiction horror film and a monster movie. A sequel called “Killer Eye: Halloween Haunt” was done in 2011.
This has got to be one of the most ridiculous concepts I’ve ever seen. It has the usual bad acting and low budget production values, but it also has one of the strangest monsters. There are a lot of sexual situations and some gay undertones plus some naked women. It’s not porn but there is a lot of skin and some unusual alien sex or what is supposed to look like alien sex. The alien eyeball sex scenes go on far too long. There’s only so much alien eyeball on human sex you can see before it gets boring.
I actually like the stupid monster, and, despite the bad acting, the premise was kinda fun. The nude scenes, however, get more attention than the actual plot.
Director DeCoteau started out working for Roger Corman and ended up making a lot of made for TV romance movies, many of them holiday themed. Quite a few of them were for the Lifetime and Hallmark channels.