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See No Evil (film)

See No Evil is a 2006 horror film directed by Gregory Dark, written by Dan Madigan, produced by Joel Simon, and starring professional wrestler Kane. It is the first major film produced by WWE Films and was released by Lions Gate Entertainment on May 19, 2006.The film went through many different working titles before the final title of See No Evil was chosen. The original working title of the film was Eye Scream Man, but was later changed to The Goodnight Man, then Goodnight before settling on See No Evil.The MPAA gave the movie an R rating for strong gruesome violence and gore throughout, language, sexual content and some drug use.A group of delinquents (four girls and four boys) are sent to clean the Blackwell Hotel. Little do they know that reclusive psychopath Jacob Goodnight (Kane) has holed away in the rotting hotel. However, the teens have their own plans. Tyson and Richie look around for a safe.Zoe, Michael, Russell, and Melissa decide to have a smoke in the penthouses (Melissa and Russell leave later for some privacy). Christine decides to help Kira escape the hotel after catching Michael hurting her in the bathroom. When one of the teens (Kira) is captured (She has religious tattoos that are revealed to Goodnight when he spies on her in the shower), those who remain—a group that includes the cop (Frank) who put a bullet in Goodnight's head four years ago—band together to survive against the brutal killer.There are occasional flashbacks to Jacob's childhood (being locked in a cage, drowning in the shower, and watching a strapped girl have her eyes remove by his mother)suggesting his killing sprees are owed to religious abuse. Some of the deaths in the film include zapping a man (Tyson) with a taser then crushing him with a vault, a man (Richie) tortured to death, a girl (Zoe) having a cell phone shoved down her throat, another girl (Melissa) being devoured by hungry dogs, a woman (Hannah) being crushed in the elevator, a man (Russell) getting stabbed in the back, and a hook going through a police officer's (Frank) chin.Unexpectedly, the manager of the hotel (Margaret) is actually Goodnight's mother and had set the whole thing up. She gets killed by her own son, because she was mad at her him for keeping Kira alive and attempted to kill her. Goodnight takes Kira away and Christine follows. She finds Goodnight in another room with Kira in a headlock, but he's in some sort of a daze. She's tries shooting him, but the police officer's gun is empty (The gun was shot multiple times when Frank was killed and was shot twice by Christine at Michael).Goodnight snaps out of his daze and grabs Christine's and Kira's throats and attempts to perform a double choke slam. However, Michael rushes in and hits Goodknight causing him to drop the girls. The three teens run for another room and Goodnight follows. He checks one room and realizes the window is broken. He goes over to inspect it and the teens ambush him. He throws Kira against the wall. The three teens regain the upper hand and seemingly push Goodknight out of a window. They look out and he is holding onto the ledge. Goodnight attempts to grab the teens while climbing back through the window, but is impaled with a pipe through his eye. He falls several stories to his death.