Amber Benson

Mix the movies “Alien” and “The Thing” with a side of humor geared towards the younger male population and one gets “One Eyed Monster” with Ron Jeremy, Amber Benson, and Charles Napier keeping its viewer on the edge of their seat laughing. “One Eyed Monster” is a pretty good film with an organized storyline, good acting, well played jokes and puns that earn a smile or two, with less nudity and gore than would have been expected. The plot of “One Eyed Monster” was thought out well, which created a movie with no questions of how the characters got to where they are. In “One Eyed Monster” an adult movie is being filmed at the top of the snow covered Look Out Mountain in northern California where an alien takes control of Ron Jeremy’s penis and goes on a killing spree…without Ron. The ten people in the cast and crew of this film travel up the mountain, but only 2 will survive.

he acting throughout this movie is actually pretty good. At first, the acting may seem horrible (e.g. cheesy and dumb), but, when looking at who they are supposed to be playing, the acting makes complete sense. When one thinks of a porn star, they do not exactly think of them being smart or normal. They think of them only being about the sex and having never gone to college. Ron Jeremy and Veronica Hart play themselves, so there really is not much of a challenge there. Amber Benson, Caleb Mayo, and Jason Graham play their parts really well. They believably play the crew positions of their characters. Amber Benson’s character, Laura, maintains the crush she has on Ron Jeremy from the beginning to the end of the movie. An excellent example of good acting in “One Eyed Monster” would be when the jokes and puns are delivered quite seriously. No one bursts out laughing about a joke, but instead they take it as though it is fact. Timely jokes and puns delivered with a straight face keep the audience smiling and occasionally laughing. When T.J. tells Lance to put his dick in the machine, Lance tells him that he does not want to “fuck with his livelihood” to which Jonah replies, “You do fuck with your livelihood.” This earns a smile and maybe a start of a laugh since he is pointing out the obvious truth of Lance’s irony. Later on, Napier’s character, Mohtz, talks about the last time he dealt with a homicidal penis without a single smile. It is funny because he is so serious about something that would sound completely ridiculous in any normal conversation. Finally, when asked if it was raining, Jonah replies, “Not rain—Ron.” The comedy aspect of this movie has been covered very well with little humorous parts sprinkled throughout the horror story.

For a horror movie with big name adult film stars, there is a major lack of gore and nudity. A horror movie is usually thought to have buckets of blood used to create many gory scenes, but “One Eyed Monster” has very few scenes that can be seen as gory and there is minimal blood used in these scenes. Just like the lack of gore, there is a lack of nudity. One expects a movie to have plenty of nudity scenes when a major adult film star like Ron Jeremy is involved; however, there are maybe three of these scenes. Some may be disappointed by this, but it actually makes the movie more tasteful. The lack of nudity and gore leaves the viewer room to come up with their own ideas of how things may be, which can be even better than what the movie could have had in it. This aspect, if anything, gives the movie a more varied audience. “One Eyed Monster” accomplishes the goal it was working towards. It has a cohesive story line with good acting, comedy, and tasteful amounts of gore and nudity. This movie, however, is not for everyone. Its main audience would be young men, but because the movie was done tastefully, it is also good for anyone who likes a mild horror story with bits of comedy and a ludicrous story.

“If you see it coming, you’re already dead.”