Movie directors--stop with the black eyes already

After watching Lazarus Effect which I gave a review on previously, I noticed a trend that I'm feeling annoyed with now. It's the big bulging black eyes movie directors are doing to elicit a fear response from movie goers. It's getting old.

Lazarus Effect

Exorcism of Emily Rose

It doesn't even have to be the horror movie genre that gets afflicted with this, like beautiful Jean Grey in the X-Men movies.

There are scarier tricks that you can do with eyes than just turning them black, special effects people. I'd like to think by now, things could be a bit more savvy.

Speaking of eyes, I have yet to see one movie starring Hannibal Lecter, portraying his eyes on the big screen as they were written in the book. The books said "Lecter's eyes were a shade of maroon and reflected the light in "pinpoints of red".

I haven't seen one attempt of any director giving Hannibal this shade of eye color, when the books and movie posters all have him with red eyes. Try to think outside the box a little bit movie industry.

Brian Cox as Lecter - not maroon eyes

Anthony Hopkins as Lecter - not maroon eyes

Mads Mikkelsen as Lecter - not maroon eyes