DEAD ON SIGHT remains engrossing throughout but never transcends the limits of the serial killer subgenre. Confounding viewers with psychic visions, flashbacks, and tricky dream sequences, the film emerges as a superficial blend of JAGGED EDGE, THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, and dozens of
other paranoid potboilers.
College professor Caleb O'Dell (Daniel Baldwin), who teaches a course on the patterns of motiveless murder, is obsessed with the unsolved ritual slaying of his wife five years before. Although the crime was pinned on a slow-witted man who was shot down while holding the murder weapon, O'Dell is
quietly accumulating evidence against another man, mild-man...
Released:
1994
Rated:
R
Length:
90 mins