See No Evil See No Evil is a 2006 horror film directed by Gregory Dark , written by Dan Madigan , produced by Joel Simon , and starring Professional wrestler Kane . It is the first major film produced by WWE Films and was released by Lions Gate Entertainment on May 19 , 2006 . The film went through many different working titles before the final title of See No Evil was chosen . The original working title of the film was Eye Scream Man , but was later changed to The Goodnight Man , then Goodnight before settling on See No Evil . The MPAA gave the movie an R rating for strong gruesome violence and gore throughout , language , sexual content and some drug use . Plot . A group of delinquents ( four girls and four boys ) are sent to clean the Blackwell Hotel . Little do they know that reclusive psychopath Jacob Goodnight ( Kane ) has holed away in the rotting hotel . However , the teens have their own plans . Tyson and Richie look around for a safe . Zoe , Michael , Russell and Melissa decide to have a smoke in the penthouses ( Melissa and Russell leave later for some privacy ) . Christine decides to help Kira escape the hotel after catching Michael hurting her in the bathroom . When one of the teens ( Kira ) is captured ( She has religious tattoos that are revealed to Goodnight when he spies on her in the shower ) , those who remain — a group that includes the cop ( Frank ) who put a bullet in Goodnight ' s head four years ago — band together to survive against the brutal killer . There are occasional flashbacks to Jacob ' s childhood ( being locked in a cage , drowning in the shower , and watching a strapped girl have her eyes remove by his mother ) suggesting his killing sprees are owed to religious abuse . Some of the deaths in the film include zapping a man ( Tyson ) with a taser then crushing him with a vault , a man ( Richie ) tortured to death , a girl ( Zoe ) having a cell phone shoved down her throat , another girl ( Melissa ) being devoured by hungry dogs , a woman ( Hannah ) being crushed in the elevator , a man ( Russell ) getting stabbed in the back , and a hook going through a police officer ' s ( Frank ) chin . Unexpectedly , the manager of the hotel ( Margaret ) is actually Goodnight ' s mother and had set the whole thing up . She gets killed by her own son , because she was mad at him for keeping Kira alive and attempted to kill her . Goodnight takes Kira away and Christine follows . She finds Goodnight in another room with Kira in a headlock , but he ' s in some sort of a daze . She tries shooting him , but the police officer ' s gun is empty ( The gun was shot multiple times when Frank was killed and was shot twice by Christine at Michael ) . Goodnight snaps out of his daze and grabs Christine ' s and Kira ' s throats and attempts to perform a double choke slam . Michael intervenes , striking the back of Jacob ' s head with a pipe and hitting his leg with an axe , distracting him long enough for them to run and hide . While Jacob searches the room they ' ve hidden in , the three of them catch him by surprise and work together to defenestrate him WWE backing . See No Evil was the first movie to be released by WWE Films , thus WWE was adamant about promoting it . They had Kane disappear from television by having Snitsky crush Kane ' s throat ( kayfabe ) with a chair . Before the movie ' s release WWE ran a storyline involving Kane being haunted by " voices " and the idea that something would happen on May 19 , the release date of the movie . Kane became so paranoid about the date that he began attacking anyone who he heard say the date , including his tag team partner The Big Show and G4 ' s Attack of the Show ! host Kevin Pereira , whom he strongly warned not to mention the date before walking off the set at the end of the interview . On the May 8 edition of WWE Raw , three co - stars of See No Evil were interviewed by Todd Grisham . They all talked about how Kane was so ( kayfabe ) [ citation needed ] hard to work with and how his on - screen movie murders made him happy . During this segment Todd asked a male co - star , Michael Pagan , about the release date of the movie . Unaware of Kane ' s reaction to it , Michael then went on to say the date , which caused Kane to enter the area of the interview and make the two female co - stars , Christina Vidal and Samantha Noble , scream in terror while Kane choked Pagan to the ground . After the film was released Kane revealed that the reason he hated the date May 19 was because " his family was killed on that day in a tragic accident " . He would then briefly engage in a feud with a fake masked Kane who would later be repackaged as Festus . Many world - wide members of the press were invited to a red carpet ceremony for the release of the movie , which also included various other WWE superstars . Interviews were given by superstars , including Shawn Michaels , John Cena , Kurt Angle , Candice Michelle , Chris Benoit , Chris Masters and Rey Mysterio commenting on the movie . A segment on Raw showed footage from inside the movie theatre while the movie was screening before its release . Footage was shown of the audience cringing , hiding and covering their eyes during the movie . Interviews were later given to members of the audience as well as WWE superstars , which had them describing their experience . Some said they could not watch it , others said they cringed . Surprisingly , all the reactions of the screening were positive . Reception . Critical reaction was overwhelmingly negative . TV Guide ' s review described Jacobs of possessing " all the acting skills of a fire hydrant . " As of January 27 , 2009 , See No Evil has earned an 9 % critic rating on Rottentomatoes and 17 out of 100 on Metacritic . Box office . The movie opened with an estimated $ 4 . 35 million in box office sales for that weekend . The film was sixth in the weekend box office totals . After two weeks , the movie stood at over $ 9 . 8 million . The movie ' s final domestic gross stands at $ 15 , 032 , 800 . The movie ' s worldwide gross stands at $ 18 , 207 , 596 . [ 1 ] DVD release . See No Evil was released on DVD on November 28 , 2006 . The DVD included audio commentary by writer Dan Madigan , director Gregory Dark , co - executive producer Jed Blaugrund and Kane . The movie eventually went on to make $ 45 . 16 million in 7 weeks . [ 2 ] In Australia See No Evil was released on Wednesday May 28 , 2008 . [ 3 ] Sequal . In an interview , when asked about a second See No Evil film , star Kane said " It ' s been talked about , " but no actual statement from the writers has been made . Soundtrack