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Henry (Dakota Shapiro) has had a difficult life. The abuse he endured from his father made it so he can barely leave the house. Talking to strangers (let alone women) is a non-starter. And he can’t even open the door to his dad’s old room for fear of thinking he might somehow be inside despite promising never to come back. Henry’s existence is thus confined to the den. He sleeps on the couch, takes late-night walks to stay isolated, and sublets his old room to Eric (Luke Cook), an aspiring actor from Australia, to pay the bills his lack of a job cannot. So his days are spent alone on his computer with “friends”: six unsuspecting women he watches through hacked webcams.

He’s the so-called Eye Without a Face, as writer-director Ramin Niami’s latest is titled. Henry “cares” about these women and believes himself...

Stars: Dakota Shapiro, Luke Cook, Vlada Verevko, Rebecca Berg, Ashley Elyse Rogers, Evangeline Neuhart, Benedikt Sebastian, Sarah Marie, Patrick Zeller, Spencer Trinwith, Danielle Hope Abrom | Written and Directed by Ramin Niami

Opening with an incredibly creepy scene featuring a woman walking slowly and methodically down a hallway, weapon in hand, shouting out for Henry – swiftly pulling back a sheet to… Hold on, let’s back up a minute. Because that’s what Eye Without a Face does – showing back to an earlier point in time as we meet Henry, an agoraphobic and anxious young man living in Los Angeles, who hacks into the webcams of various young women who inhabit the city. He watches over them in their daily lives, seeing himself as their guardian angel. Or is that guardian creep?

We’re in Rear Window territory with Eye Without a Face, though the plot device of a camera pointed...