Written and directed by Richard E. Williams, Dead Eyes is an Australian horror presented in first person perspective, captured using a custom head-mounted Sony camera system.
The movie follows Sean and his friends as they venture into a remote forest searching for his missing father, only to uncover dark secrets where grief has blurred the line between the living and the dead.
The film stars Mischa Heywood, Ana Thu Nguyen, Stephen Phillips, Charles Cottier, Alea O'Shea and Rijen Laine.
Dead Eyes receives its World Premiere at SXSW on March 12th.
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Check out the first teaser below.
The official synopsis reads:
Sean and his fiancée, Grace, enter a remote forest to search for Sean’s missing father, Paul, who vanished following the tragic death of his youngest daughter, Lilly. Returning to the site of Lilly’s death forces Sean to confront his inner demons — which soon begin to manifest in terrifying physical ways. Their search takes a horrifying turn when they uncover Paul’s dark secret: cloning experiments designed to resurrect Lilly.The forest is now inhabited by cannibalistic mutant girls, each a clone of Lilly, violently battling to prove she is the “real” one. As Sean and Grace uncover the grim truth, they must survive grotesque creatures while grappling with disturbing questions about identity, loss, and the boundaries between life and death.