My Little Eye (2002)

Country of Origin: UK / France
Year of Production: 2001
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CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Momentum Pictures / Studio Canal / Working Title Films present a WT2 production
Production Executive for WT/WT2: Sarah-Jane Wright
Executive Producers: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Natascha Wharton
Co-Executive Producer: Christopher Zimmer
Producers: Jonathan Finn
Chief Operating Officer For Working Title/WT2: Angela Morrison
Head of Production For Working Title/WT2: Michelle Wright
Production Manager: Margaret Harrison
WT2 Coordinator: Amanda Boyle
Production Coordinator: Adele MacDonald

SCRIPT
Script: David Hilton, James Watkins
Story: David Hilton
Story Editor For Working Title/WT2: Rachael Prior

DIRECTION
Director: Marc Evans
1st Assistant Director: Stuart Renfrew
2nd Assistant Director: Kevin J. Walker
3rd Assistant Director: Evan Kelly

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Hubert Taczanowski
Camera Operator: Warren Jefferies
Camera Trainee: Gillian Matheson
Gaffer: Mario Paulin
Best Boy: James Thibodeau
Electricians: Kat Houlihan, Jordan Schella
Key Grip: Kelcey Parker
Best Boy Grip: Michael Jackson
Grip: Brian Adams
Riggers: Doug Betts, Dave Reilly
Stills: Chris Reardon
Lighting Equipment: Production Services Atlantic
Digital Film Lab Tape to Film: Duboicolor
Duboicolor Executive Producer: Antoine Simkine
Duboicolor Production Manager: Tommaso Vergallo
Duboicolor Assistant: Cendrine Gady
Prints: Technicolor

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Marguerite Arnold
Assistant Editor: Angeliki Despotidou
Post Production Supervisor: Deborah Harding
Post Production Consultancy: Steeple Post Production Services
Post Production Accountant: Tarn Harper
Post Production Facilities: De Lane Lea
Colourist: Chris Beeton at Pepper Post Production
Final Cut Pro Technical Advisor: Charles Teton
Post Production Script: Sapex Scripts

MUSIC
Music / Music Mixers / Music Recordists: bias (Flood, Alan Moulder, Rob Kirwan)
Songs: Garvey / Jupp / Turner / Potter / Potter / Nisker (Any Day Now; *beep* The Pain Away); Warren / Gideon / Viva / Albrighton / Juel (Wasted Spaces / Desolation Highway)
Songs Performed By: Elbow Performed by Peaches (Any Day Now; *beep* The Pain Away); Echoboy (Wasted Spaces); Bikini Atoll (Desolation Highway)
Music Supervisor For Working Title/WT2: Nick Angel
Music Editor: Mike Higham
Music Recorded At: The Bedroom Studios
5.1 Music Mixes: Andy Richards at Out Of Eden, London

SOUND
Sound Recordists: Jim Rillie, Lyle Scott-Darling
Boom Operator: Frank Kavanagh
Re-recording Mixers: Ray Merrin, Graham Daniel, Adam Daniel
Re-Recorded At: Shepperton Film Studios, London, England, UK
Supervising Sound Editor: Glenn Freemantle
Assistant Sound Editor: James Slavin
Dialogue Editor: Gillian Dodders
ADR Mixer: Bill Higley, New York; Matt Beville, Los Angeles
Sound Effects Editor: Mark Heslop
Foley Mixer: Kevin Tayler
Foley Editor: Grahame Peters
Foley Artists: Felicity Cottrell, Ruth Sullivan

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Key Make Up: Cathleen O’Connell
Key Hair: Barbi Jollota
Costume Designer: Kate Rose
Wardrobe Assistants: Marilyn Richardson, D’Arcy Poultney

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects Supervisor: John Laforet
Special Effects Technicians: Mark Ahee, Darcy Callaghan, Michel Gagnon

VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects Designers: Double Negative, Matthew Holben, Mark Coleran, Matthew Shaw
Titles Designer: Mark Coleran
Model Maker: Nicki Bayard

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Crispian Sallis
Art Director: Laura MacNutt
Buyer: Rev. Bob Chiasson
Props Master: Teresita Doucet
Props Assistant: Faye Cameron
Set Supervisor: Jim Worthen
Assistant Set Decorator: Rob Croll
2nd Assistant Set Decorator: Geoff Long
Construction Coordinator: Scott MacFarlane
Lead Carpenters: Rodney Leary, Max Bishop
Carpenters: Tony Black, Art Cormier, Donard Dunfee, Harry Goodick, Richard LeBlanc, Bruce MacEachern, Stan MacMillan, Glenn Martin, Daniel O’Grady, Arnold Pentecost, Michael Richardson
Carpenter’s Helpers: James Boudreau, Kevin Doublett, Raymond Phillippo, Wayne Russell
Carpenter’s Labourers: Mark Arnold, Richard Colp, Daniel Drapeau, Peter Fraser, Derrick Murphy, Carlo Spinazzola, James Thorne, Gareth Warren
Head Scenic Painter: Brenard Faye
Key Scenics: Kelly Chamberlain, Tony Owen
Scenic Painters: Kendrick Beck, Douglas Betts, Daniel Delaquis, Jennie Lamont, David Langley, Victoria Kent, Tammy Peters, Paul Schofield, James Tumblin
Art Department Assistant: Jason Clarke
Draftsman: Peter Child
Storyboard Artist: David Cullen
Leadman: Lance Barney
Craft Services: Kim Lohnes

MISCELLANEOUS
Script Supervisor: Maggie Thomas
Production Accountant: Elizabeth Kavanagh
1st Assistant Accountant: Janice Woodill
Chief Financial Officer For Working Title/WT2: Shefali Ghosh
Production Assistants: Kristin Arason, Robert Finlay MacDougall
Jane Villiers' Assistant: Cathy Kehoe
lan Greenspan’s Assistant: Todd Eikelberger
Christopher Zimmer’s Assistant: Natasha Ryan
Assistant to Natascha Wharton For Working Title/WT2: Hannah Farrell
Set PA: Evan Kelly
Publicist: Lisa Shamata
Head of Legal and Business Affairs For Working Title/WT2: Sara Curran
Vice President, Legal and Business Affairs For Working Title/WT2: Sheeraz Shah
Product Placement Consultant: Kellie Belle
Head Wrangler: Lee Phillips
Crow Wrangler: Richard ‘Butch' Hughes
Transport Coordinator: Michael Sullivan
Cast Driver: Nye Sullivan
Drivers: Kelly Peterson, Gib Russell, Fay Sullivan,Robert Meade, Juan Aliphat, Eric Cadegan, Fred Campbell
Security Coordinators: Darren Winter, Bill Gamache, Sharon McEwen, John Veinotte
Production Services: Imagex
Imagex Business Affairs: John Kelly
Imagex Financial Affairs: Dana Landry
Insurance: AON, Kevin O’Shea
Legal Services: Davis and Company
Script Clearance: Marshall / Plumb
Catering: Max Catering, Rainbow Catering
Produced with the assistance of the Nova Scotia Film Industry Tax Credit

LOCATIONS
Locations: Halifax, Dartmouth, Clementsport, Nova Scotia, Canada
Location Manager: Scott Simpson
Assistant Location Manager: Phil Hatcher

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Acknowledgements: Larry Flynt, First Amendment Advocate and Publisher of Hustler Magazine; The Breakfast Club Courtesy of Universal Studios Licensing
Thanks To: Nova Scotia Film Development Corporation

STUNTS
Stunt Coordinators: Branko Racki, Randy Boliver
Stunt Rigging Coordinator: Steve Staples
Stunt Rigger: Marco Bianco
Stunt Doubles: Leigh Brinkman, Robert Racki

CASTING
Casting: Billy Hopkins, Suzanne Smith, Kerry Barden, Mark Bennett
Casting Associate (LA): Deborah Maxwell Dion
Casting Associate (Toronto): Diane Kerbel
Casting Associate (Halifax): Sheila Lane
Casting Assistant: Molly Clayton

CAST
Sean CW Johnson (Matt)
Kris Lemche (Rex)
Stephen O’Reilly (Danny)
Laura Regan (Emma)
Jennifer Sky (Charlie)
Bradley Cooper (Travis Patterson)
Nick Mennell (the cop)

PLOT SUMMARY

A group of five young people retire to a remote and snowbound house where they have to live together for six months under the constant scrutiny of a battery of webcams - if any one of them leaves, they will all forfeit the one million dollar prize money. But as the experiment comes to an end they begin to suspect that they've been set up for something they could never even have dreamed of...

CAPSULE REVIEW

Shot entirely by a the surveillance cameras dotted around the house and from a few hidden lenses inside household objects - mist creepily from inside a torch - My Little Eye has a unique look all its own. It was an "experiment in unpleasantness" that Evans himself admitted restricted him - there are no cutaway shots or POVs for example - but he still manages to make an incredible tense and unsettling film. It's impossible to discuss the film in any detail without giving away the salient plot twists but suffice to say that it's a must-see film that has trailed controversy behind it when it was first screen. It premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival in 2002 but distributors Universal got cold feet and are still unsure about releasing it. Which would be a tragedy as this is definitely a film that deserves the widest possible audience. Deeply unsettling, its startling imagery stays with you long after it's fantastically twisty ending.

Netherlands
Theatrical Distributor: UIP Netherlands

USA
Theatrical Distributor: Universal Focus

USA
Rating: R (for strong violence and sexuality, pervasive language and some drug use)

TIMELINE

2001
March
6: UK - filming begins

April
20: UK - filming ends

August
24: UK - shown at the Lupo Frightfest, London

REFERENCES

MAGAZINES

Screen International no.1565 (29 September 2006) pp.11-13 (UK)
illustrated article

Sight and Sound vol.12 no.10 (October 2002) pp.26-28; 28 (UK)
illustrated interview with Marc Evans (Endurance by Kim Newman); interview with Flood (My little ear by James Bell)

Cineforum no.426 (June/July 2003) pp.66-68 (Italy)
illustrated credits, review (La paura che uccide

Sight and Sound vol.13 no.5 (May 2003) p.70 (UK)
illustrated dvd review (Home Movies: Close Up - Multi Angle Murder by Jamie Russell)

Empire.n167.May 2003 GB ENG
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5 StarBurst.n291.November 2002 GB ENG
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6 Empire.n161.November 2002 GB ENG
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1 Fangoria.n218.November 2002 US ENG
p.30-33.illus.article.synopsis.credits
2 Sight and Sound.v12.n10.October 2002 GB ENG
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3 Sight and Sound.v12.n10.October 2002 GB ENG
p.28.interview
4 Sight and Sound.v12.n10.October 2002 GB ENG
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5 Film Review.n623.October 2002 GB ENG
p.74.illus.review
6 Edinburgh Film Festival Catalogue.v56th.2002 GBS ENG
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1 Variety.12 Aug 2002 US ENG
p.23.illus.credits.synopsis.review
2 Screen International.n1367.9 Aug 2002 GB ENG
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KEYWORDS

reality television, suicide

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009