Dan Smith Movies

Shuki Levy, best known for his work on behalf of the Saban Entertainment animated-cartoon firm, directs a group of "live" performers in Blind Vision. Lenny Von Dohlen stars as nerdish mail clerk, who worships Deborah Shelton from afar. Emulating Hitchcock's Rear Window (or is it DePalma's Body Double?), Von Dohlen watches his dream girl through a highpowered lens. When one of Shelton's boyfriends turns up dead, Von Dohlen is sucked into a vortex of intrigue. Don't be lulled into the sense of deja vu in the early reels; this one's got quite a few tricks up its sleeve. Written by Levy and his frequent Saban collaborator Winston Rickard, Blind Vision costars Robert Vaughn (as "Mr. X"!), Ned Beatty, and Louise Fletcher; the film was lensed on location in Norfolk, Virginia. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

This plodding, amateurish horror film is basically a snow-capped variation on the standard stalk-and-slash killer formula. Six vacationers check into a posh ski resort where they are systematically slain, apparently in retribution for the accidental death of one of their friends years before. Despite a few inventive death scenes (by icicle, ski pole, snowplow, etc.), slasher-movie buffs looking for genre staples of bare nubile flesh, gushing gore and a high body count will be left out in the cold, as this is yet another late-80s exploitation thriller that contains no thrills (unless one counts the frequent ski footage) and hardly bothers to exploit anything. ~ Cavett Binion, Rovi