White of the Eye Reviews

Directed by Donald Cammell (codirector with Nicolas Roeg of PERFORMANCE [1970] and director of DEMON SEED [1977]), WHITE OF THE EYE begins with an unseen killer stalking and killing a young housewife, one in a series of brutal murders that have plagued a small Arizona community. Joan and Paul White (Cathy Moriarty and David Keith) seem unfazed by the events in their neighborhood. Joan has a chance meeting with her former lover, Mike Desantos (Alan Rosenberg). Paul is doing some repair work at the home of a bored housewife, Ann Mason (Alberta Watson), and begins to have an affair with her. Later, the police investigation of the serial murders turns up a set of tire tracks that match those from Paul's van. WHITE OF THE EYE is a powerful, albeit flawed, portrait of a serial killer. Cammell seems interested neither in providing explanations nor in the traditional exploitation of sex and violence (there is very little blood or gore and no nudity).