There was a recently released Korean film called "Blind" that gave a nod to this film, which I loved. Someone also recommended me "See No Evil" (AKA: Blind Terror). Are there any other films like this?
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There aren't very many, and the ones that there are, are not very good. There's one called Blind Fear with Shelley Hack, which is really awful, and isn't even MST3K material, because it's just boring.
There was a made-for-TV movie with Victoria Principal, which was supposed to be her step up to serious acting. It isn't all that bad, but she personally had too much creative control, I think, and the movie was so unrealistic, I almost wrote the station a letter. I watched with a blind friend, who laughed most of the way through it, especially at the part where Principal identifies a suspect in a line-up by feeling all the suspects' faces. Even if a blind person did get a "look" at a face in a confrontation, they'd just describe whatever distinguishing thing they happened to feel, like loose dentures, or a deformed ear covered by long hair, before they'd go into the line-up room, and say "Hey! all you suspects, get a good look at the person identifying you." Plus, it was just a little touchy-feely weird.
On S.2;e.5 of Quantum Leap, Sam is a blind musician (just about the only profession blind people can have in the movies), who has to protect his girlfriend from a serial killer.
The only movie I can think of I'd recommend, which doesn't mean it's great, just that it's better than average, is See No Evil (aka, Blind Terror), with Mia Farrow. Farrow does a passing job of playing a blind person, although she's as usual, depressed about it. I think, in the story, she really hasn't been blind for very long-- it's probably another story written by a sighted person with no experience of blindness. Anyway, her family is murdered in their big English house one day, and manage to miss Farrow, and are coming back for her, so she runs, with no resources, and if I remember correctly, loses her cane pretty quickly as well.
The media don't tend to do blind characters very well. They did terrible Deaf characters until they started using Deaf actors in the roles. I guess until blind actors start playing blind characters, they won't improve much.
Although, I will say that the TV series Fame used a blind actor in a role, and he was obnoxious. I'd seen the actor in other things where he was fine. Maybe there were so many obnoxious characters on Fame, they thought he'd fit right in, I dunno.
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Uma Thurman is a blind woman in danger in Jennifer Eight. She's not the lead character, though.
"My name is Paikea Apirana, and I come from a long line of chiefs stretching all the way back to the Whale Rider."
A Patch of Blue (1965) is about a blind girl, who encounters a fair amount of peril. But it's not a thriller or a horror movie.
shareThere's a 1956 picture called 23 Paces To Baker Street - combining elements of both Sorry, Wrong Number and Rear Window - with Van Johnson as a blind playwright who overhears a conversation between people involved in a kidnapping, but can't convince authorities and undertakes to investigate on his own (which, of course, eventually puts him in jeopardy).
A step or two above routine, it's solid, involving and colorful, benefiting from London locations, a primarily British cast and Henry Hathaway's assured but unobtrusive direction. It's unfortunately hard to find these days; it's unavailable on video, but has turned up occasionally on both HBO and the FOX Movie Channel.
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