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2[[caption-width-right:300:''"Do you see the sin?"'']]
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4''See No Evil'' is a 2006 SlasherMovie starring Glenn Jacobs (aka Wrestling/{{Kane}}) of Wrestling/{{WWE}} fame and Creator/RachaelTaylor.
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6The film opens with two officers busting inside SerialKiller Jacob Goodnight's (Kane) home, saving one of his victims and lodging a bullet into his head. Cut to some time later, the surviving cop Williams (Steven Vidler) is now working in a juvenile prison and has been tasked to take some delinquents to clean up the old Blackwell hotel. Unbeknownst to them, Jacob has taken residence there and starts killing them off.
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8On August 6, 2013, Creator/WWEStudios announced ''Film/SeeNoEvil2'', with Kane reprising his role as Jacob Goodnight and [[Film/AmericanMary the Soska sisters]] directing.
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10Not to be confused with the 1971 thriller of the same name starring Creator/MiaFarrow.
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12!!This film has examples of:
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14* AgonyOfTheFeet: Jacob catches Richie by his foot. Later, Michael struck Jacob's leg with an axe.
15* AlphaBitch: Zoe, a kleptomaniac that always prefers to talk on her phone, no matter how rude it is.
16* AnArmAndALeg: Williams loses his hand in the opening when Jacob cuts it off. He has [[ArtificialLimbs an artificial replacement]] now.
17* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Jacob has flies and their maggots squirming inside the bullet hole in the back of his head, yet has no problem operating.
18%% * BaldOfEvil: Wouldn't be Kane without it.
19* BarrierBustingBlow: Ty punches a wall and bugs immediately pour out.
20* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Averted. Ty and Christine are the only black characters and get a lot of the focus. While Ty [[spoiler:does die, he is pretty much the last victim]] and Christine [[spoiler:ends up being one of the two [[FinalGirl Final Girls]] along with Kira]].
21* BigDamnHeroes: Michael in the climax. [[spoiler:He suddenly storms in to save the remaining survivors and manages to kill Jacob with Christine's help]].
22%% * BloodyHandprint: Two are seen in Jacob's home in the opening.
23* ChairmanOfTheBrawl: Christine knocks Jacob through an open window with a chair.
24* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Zoe getting her cellphone forced down her throat.
25* DeathByIrony: Melissa is established as a friend to all animals. She is eaten by stray dogs later on, one of them being the one she fed earlier.
26** Similarly, Zoe's CruelAndUnusualDeath, as she was practically glued to her cell phone.
27* DecoyProtagonist: Williams dies soon after the cast realizes that Jacob is in the hotel, and the focus changes to the {{Delinquents}} with [[FinalGirl Christine]] getting the most attention.
28* DestinationDefenestration: Jacob drops Melissa through a window.
29* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: The first twenty minutes or so after the opening is basically 20 minutes with {{Jerkass}}es.
30* DopeSlap: Williams gives one to Michael for his {{Jerkass}} behavior.
31* DrivenToVillainy: Jacob is the way he is because his mother raised him to be a "[[TheScourgeOfGod Hand of God]]" against sinners.
32* ElevatorActionSequence: Jacob uses a NeckLift to bash Hannah's brains on to the elevator roof.
33* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Averted, Jacob hated and feared his mother [[spoiler:but he breaks down after accidentally killing her]].
34* EvilMatriarch: Jacob's mother has raised him to be the "Hand of God" by caging him and taunting him about sex. [[spoiler:As Margaret, she apparently has continued to feed Jacob victims by directing people to the abandoned hotel]].
35* EyeScream: Jacob tends to remove his victims' eyes. He ends up getting one of his own stabbed out during the climax.
36* {{Fetish}}: Jacob seems to have a thing for religious symbols. He even spares anybody that has religious tattoos on their body.
37* FliesEqualsEvil: Flies have made home in Jacob's skull and one always appears before he attacks.
38* FlippingTheBird: Kira shows the finger to Zoe in the prison bus.
39* FinalGirl: There are [[spoiler:two final girls (Kira and Christine) and a final guy (Micheal), but Christine fits the trope better than Kira]].
40%% * GranolaGirl: Melissa, it's even lampshaded.
41* GrossUpCloseUp: We get a close up into an empty eye socket.
42* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Jacob uses Ty's own taser against him.
43* HooksAndCrooks: Jacob's secondary weapon, crossed with ChainPain.
44* HopeSpot: [[spoiler:When Margaret appears into Jacob's lair, it seems that Kira is saved. It's revealed then that Margaret has orchestrated the whole thing]].
45* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: How [[spoiler:Margaret]] is killed. [[spoiler:She]] is thrown toward and skewered by two metal bars in the wall.
46* {{Jerkass}}: Michael. To summarize his character, a scene has him throwing an empty can at a stray dog for kicks.
47* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Most of the teens, especially Kira, Christine and Tye.
48%%* MasterOfUnlocking: Ty.
49* MirrorScare: Jacob gives one to Russell and Melissa before he starts chasing them.
50* NeckLift: During the final confrontation, Jacob lifts both Kira and Christine by their throats and starts tightening his grip.
51* NeverRecycleABuilding: The Blackwell hotel has been unused for over three decades.
52* OohMeAccentsSlipping: At times you could hear the Aussie accents of the performers, since the film was film in the LandDownunder and used performers from around there.
53* PsychoticSmirk: Jacob lets out one when he finds Zoe hiding in the closet. And another one before he releases the rope that lets Melissa fall out the window.
54* RainOfBlood: Hannah's blood drips on Christine when she enters the elevator.
55* RedRightHand: The bullet hole in the back of Jacob's head, which has flies squirming inside it.
56* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Margaret is Jacob's mother and has deliberately brought Williams and the juveniles into the hotel for him to kill]].
57* SassyBlackWoman: Christine grew up in a rough household and pretty much came out cynical.
58%%* SayMyName
59%%* ScreamingWoman
60* ShowerScene: Kira has one, which is done to show off her tattoos.
61* SuperStrength: Jacob has enough strength to throw people around and grasp two victims by their necks with one arm each.
62* SoundtrackDissonance: Jacob has a record playing Christian music in the opening as the police search his home that just screams "serial killer house".
63* SecretPath: The hotel is filled with these.
64* TrophyRoom: Jacob stashes his collected eyeballs into one of the upper hotel rooms.
65* UnwillingSuspension: Melissa ends up this way and painfully as one of her arms hits the ground and breaks.
66* VillainousBSOD: Jacob hits his [=BSOD=] when [[spoiler:he kills his mother]].
67* WouldHitAGirl: Michael used to be abusive to Kira but [[spoiler: ends up being the hero in the end]].

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