See No Evil (film)
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This article is about the film See No Evil. For the film named See No Evil, Hear No Evil, please check the appropriate article_Film
name =See No Evil | caption =Promotional poster for See No Evil|director =Gregory Dark|producer =Joel Simon|writer =Dan Madigan|starring =Kane|music =Tyler Bates |cinematography =Ben Nott |editing =Scott Richter |distributor =Lions Gate |released =May 19, 2006 |runtime =85 min |language =English | budget =$8 million | imdb_id =0437179 |}}See No Evil is a 2006 horror film directed by Gregory Dark, written by Dan Madigan, produced by Joel Simon, and starring professional wrestler Kane (Glen Jacobs). It is the first released film produced by WWE Films and was released by Lions Gate Films on May 19, 2006.
The film went through many different working titles before the final title of See No Evil was chosen. The original working title of the film was Eye Scream Man, but was later changed to Goodnight before settling on See No Evil.
According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Jacobs has signed a contract to act in a sequel for the movie.
The MPAA gave the movie an R rating for strong gruesome violence and gore throughout, language, sexual content and some drug use.A group of delinquents with a police officer clean the Blackwell Hotel to fill their community service. Unfortunately for the group, they are not aware that psychopath Jacob Goodnight (Kane) is also in the hotel. The psychopath is a man shot by the officer, and has a rusty steel plate screwed in his head and sharp blade-like fingernails. Goodnight locks them in and begins to hunt them down.*Kane (Glen Jacobs): Jacob Goodnight
*Joe Cappelletti: Voice Over, ADR Casting
*Craig Horner: Richie
*Tiffany Lamb: Hannah
*Penny McNamee: Melissa
*Samantha Noble: Kira
*Matthew Okine: Police Man
*Michael J. Pagan: Tye
*Luke Pegler: Michael
*Cecily Polson: Margaret
*Rachael Taylor: Zoe
*Christina Vidal: Christine
*Steven Vidler: Williams
*Mikael Wilder: RussellThis is the first movie to be released by WWE Film productions, thus WWE was adamant about promoting it. Before the movies release WWE ran a storyline involving Kane being haunted by "voices" and the idea that something would happen on May 19, the release date of the movie. Kane became so paranoid about the date that he began attacking anyone who he heard say the date, including his tag team partner The Big Show. On the May 8 edition of WWE RAW, three co-stars of See No Evil were interviewed by Todd Grisham. They all talked about how Kane was so (kayfabe) hard to work with and how his on-screen movie murders made him happy. During this segment Todd asked a male co-star, Michael Pagan, about the release date of the movie. Unaware of Kane's reaction to it, Michael then went on to say the date, which caused Kane to enter the area of the interview and make the two female co-stars, Christina Vidal and Samantha Noble, scream in terror while Kane choked Pagan to the ground.
After the film was released Kane revealed that the reason he hated the date May 19 was because "his family was killed on that day in a tragic accident".
Many world-wide members of the press were invited to a red carpet ceremony for the release of the movie, which also included various other WWE superstars. Interviews were given by superstars, including Shawn Michaels, John Cena, Kurt Angle, Candice Michelle, Chris Benoit and Chris Masters, commenting on the movie.
A segment on RAW showed footage from inside the movie theatre while the movie was playing. Footage was shown of the audience cringing, hiding and covering their eyes during the movie. Interviews were later given to members of the audience, which had members of the audience describing their experience. Some said they couldn't watch it, others said they cringed; most reviews were positive.Critics have generally given the movie bad reviews, questioning how scary the film actually is. As of July 19 on Rotten Tomatoes, the film received a 8% rating out of 50 reviews. However, www.horrorchannel.com gave See No Evil a 4/5 rating.
The movie opened with an estimated $4.35 million in box office sales for that weekend. The film was sixth in the weekend box office totals. After two weeks, the movie stood at over $9.8 million, thus turning over a 2 million dollar profit. As of June 27, the movie's domestic total stands at $14,951,528. The movie's worldwide gross stands at $15,387,513.*The film's tagline, "This Summer, Evil Gets RAW" is a reference to the famous WWE RAW television program and franchise brand. Kane is a prominent fixture of the RAW roster.
*Sgt. Frank Williams, a key officer from the film's opening scene, is named after Frank Williams, a beloved WWF enhancement talent of the 1970's and 1980's. Williams is also known for being the first guest on "Rowdy" Roddy Piper's weekly talk show, "Piper's Pit".
*In one scene shown midway through the movie, artwork depicting Stephanie McMahon is visible in the background.*Official website
*Upcoming Horror Movies - See No Evil ....Jacob Goodnight
*RottenTomatoes.com - See No Evil....Jacob Goodnight
*ComingSoon.net Plot Synopsis....Jacob Goodnight
*Movie Review - May Contain Some Spoilers.
*Archived online ad for 'See No Evil' in the adverlicio.us online movie ad archive
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