The Mind's Eye comes to us from writer/director Joe Begos, who also helmed the indie pic Almost Human (which was a throwback to films like Invasion of the Body Snatchers). This marks his next venture and is clearly heavily influenced by flicks like Scanners and Firestarter, which I personally didn't mind since there isn't enough psychic horror in movies nowadays.

The story starts off with our protagonist Zack minding his own business, casually walking through a small town until a couple local cops decide to harass him. After a little scuffle with the officers Zack is forced to bust out his psychokinesis and throw them around with the simple use of his mind (wish I could do that). This gets the attention of a crazy Doctor named Slovak, who convinces Zack to join a small experimental institute to hone his psychic gifts and meet up with an old female friend named Rachel, who's apparently already there.

Zack agrees to join, but soon learns that the Doctor is actually suppressing their powers and extracting fluid from their spines to inject himself with, in an attempt to become psychic. Zack eventually escapes the place with Rachel, leading the Doctor (and a couple hired goons) to hunt them down, ultimately resulting in one final powerful battle of the minds.

The Mind's Eye attempts to bring back a 90's retro style mixed in with elements from other past films and does a decent job at it. There's some nice blue and red background lighting and a cool musical synth score, coupled with cheesy (but surprisingly good) practical gore effects like exploding heads and dismembered bodies. Had it not been for the gore I probably would've lost interest much sooner, because the writing isn't the sharpest and causes the movie to suffer at times, specifically with certain character decisions, like when a character decides to save the antagonist instead of killing him (WHY!?). 

There are also other scenes where the baddies point guns at the leads for an extended period of time instead of simply shooting them--I mean if you know they have psychic abilities why do you just stand there pointing your gun long enough for them to use these abilities!? Just shoot them already! But of course then we'd have a pretty short movie. The writing is really my only major issue here, as it's an otherwise decent watch, especially if you're in the mood for a cheesy throwback.

The Mind's Eye suffers from script problems and illogical character decisions, but it makes up for SOME of that with cheesy practical gore, cool use of red and blue lighting, and a nice retro synth score. I'd say it's worth a look if you're in the mood for a decent psychic throwback flick, but don't expect much otherwise.