This stylish horror-thriller benefits from terrific
photography by ace DP Douglas Milsome (Full Metal Jacket) and an extraordinary
principal location. Alex is a successful actress living with her glamour
photographer boyfriend (the always bankable Potts) in an ultra-stylish,
split-level luxury apartment. It has a bathroom bigger than your living room
and a slide between floors! But an AirBnB guest (who, oddly, they make no
attempt to trace) has smeared fake blood everywhere. Eve is a well-produced,
enjoyable flick with some seriously creepy ‘someone’s in the house’ moments, but
… I would be lying if I said I knew what was going on. It’s something to do
with duality (mirrors are a recurring theme) but is it a Fight Club thing? A
Jekyll and Hyde thing? An evil twin? Even as the credits rolled I was none the
wiser. Reading other reviews, some claim the basic plot is quite prosaic and straightforward,
but they are misreading things. Which is understandable; the stylish nature of the film (and the casting of two very
similar looking actresses) does somewhat obfuscate the story. I would probably have
understood this if I’d read a synopsis – but that’s something I never do, on principal,
for precisely this reason: a film must stand or fall on its own and require no pre-knowledge. Worth watching, but if you read other reviews than this beforehand, don't necessarily believe them.
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