The Girl with the Hungry Eyes 2002 Horror Movie Review

There is the ‘official’ release of this on the dvd, which is the shorter edited version, which has far superior picture quality in that the colours are bright, whereas the longer, unedited version, also on the disc, has dull colours, but the shorter, official, release is spoilt by an annoying voice over, which really wasn’t necessary, and seems only to be there to ‘explain’ more fully the story to what seems to be felt of as a dim American audience on the part of the makers. The longer version, which I saw first, is far, far superior in every way, apart from the dull colours, to the shortened version, so anyone seeing this should make sure to see the longer version first and see it how the director intended. It is based on the short story of the same name by Fritz Lieber, but in that ‘the girl’ remains nameless and an enigma, whereas in the movie, she is given a background supposedly explaining why she is the way she is, when the story works better without this, as she doesn’t need an explanation, quite simply, she just - ‘is’. And the written story conveys this very well. Never forget the last paragraph of the story where The Girl reveals her full intent, “I want that broken bike, I want your blood on the cobblestones, baby!” or whatever it was, she said. It said it all in that final paragraph. A brilliant story and one of the best I ever read when very very young indeed. ;-)