Memorable, crazy movie

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

STARRY EYES is one of those 'mumblegore' films set in the soulless world of the modelling industry. Watching it, the only thing that interested me was how similar the story is in tone to the later NEON DEMON, although this one's more graphic and distasteful. The main character is a waitress who aspires to become a model, so when she visits a new agency, you can guess the kind of thing that happens.Truth be told, I'm no big fan of this genre and STARRY EYES reminds me why. This is drawn-out and cheap, with unpleasant characters throughout and a lead you can hardly get behind due to her self-destructive drive. The horror tries very hard to shock but although unpleasant I didn't find it disturbing, merely juvenile in approach. In fact, the whole experience was rather depressing for me. If this is the face of modern horror, I'd rather do without it.

I'm very angry that almost 2 hours were wasted on this amateur movie, so this why am writing this review, it made me feel bad and angry.if it wasn't promoted as horror movie, then probably I wouldn't be disappointed and might be less frustrated, after 1 hour I hoped that maybe there will be sort of surprise from some kind of "creative" creators our there but, nothing changed, it remained boring as from the first minute.The last 10-20 minutes there was few bloody scenes (the main actress killed her friends), but based on that, you can't say it's a horror movie, because there was ZERO suspense.there was no interesting plot, no surprises , nothing mysterious that you the viewer could see and try to figure out until it's revealed , there is no such a stuff, but instead a monotonic character, desperate that hope to get a role for some kind of commercial or a movie, I even didn't care what that was due to the fact of many non-sense and crap that was there.to summarise the movie: A desperate young lady is ready to suck for getting role (and she did) , while portraying the interviewers and the producer as evil and belong to satanism groups (they wore pentagram symbolic accessories) , probably a metaphor to make them look evil and the "protagonist" as a victim, while this didn't happen , I couldn't sympathise the protagonist, so I'm not sure if producers wanted to do that by purpose or it's a mistake in the story. my overall impression was, that this movie was done by frustrated producers that are jealous from Hollywood's top successful producers so they made this film with lots of clichés and overacted/over-presented metaphors, that probably don't exist today or rare.So, yeah, this movie managed to make me feel like idiot that I continued watching it after 1 hour, or even after 30 minutes.

I was intrigued the entire movie because I didn't know where it was going to go. I've done some reading about the Hollywood/Illuminati/eyes wide shut conspiracy theories and was curious how this film would depict the occult in Hollywood. The film did a good job portraying the sinister side, however it was a snap shot of the creepy behind the scenes devil worshippers and more of a character study as we watch Sarah transform. It was interesting to see LA filmed this way, very unglamorous and almost always overcast. This set an ominous tone throughout. Ever her friends, aspiring actors and film makers, living out of vans or piled into small apartments constantly drinking and hanging out. It was a rosy vision of life in La La Land. Overall a Slow burn, worth the watch, and some solid gore as well!

For those who have been complaining that American horror hasn't kept up with European or Japanese Horror, well, how about Starry Eyes? It's equal parts Martyrs and Audition. It doesn't really make a lick of sense but the acting is so good and the tension is so high, who gives a care? It's really not as graphic and violent as others have let on, but since the tension builds so effectively during the first two thirds of the film, the violence of the last act just seems over the top, and that's a pretty cool accomplishment. I'm giving this a ten because it's a masterpiece of horror. How I didn't even hear about it until two years after its release is beyond me but whatever.