SANTA MONICA, California — When Kane walks into a room, it typically darkens. Perhaps the sunlight is snuffed out by his nearly 7-foot-tall frame, constructed with a brawny build that seems one protein shake away from 400 pounds.

Maybe the brightness falls prey to the sinister behavior shared by his WWE wrestling performances and Jacob Goodnight, the homicidal main character of his new film, "See No Evil."

Or maybe he wants optimum reading conditions.

Discussing "See No Evil," Kane (born Glen Jacobs) said the film breaks stereotypes by crafting a horror tale for both sides of the genre debate over old-school titans (Freddy, Jason) vs. new-school torture ("Saw," "Hostel"). Equally boundary-breaking, however, is the way this turnbuckle-busting, teen-slaughtering monster wields his English degree with the same head-spinning deftness as his Chokeslam From Hell.

Asked to explain Jacob recently, the hulking man with unsettling eyes began his analysis with a $5 word. "He has a penchant," he grinned, "for ripping eyeballs out of eye sockets."

"A very interesting thing about 'See No Evil' is the irony and the depth in the plot," the WWE star said. "What people desire most, and what they do, is the way that they die. One character is extremely greedy, and that greed is used against him. Another character, her cell phone is used against her. That's another interesting aspect of the film — that plot depth."

Such depth doesn't mean, however, that the wrestler (who earned his degree from Northeast Missouri State College and once served as a third-grade English teacher) is too highbrow to know what his audience wants. Or, for that matter, what it wants to hear.

"If you were to take Jacob, Michael Myers, Jason and Freddy and put them in a room together, only Jacob would come out alive," he speculated, rubbing his hands together. "Because frankly, I'd kick all their asses."

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In "See No Evil," a group of juvenile delinquents come to a burnt-out hotel to perform community service and get some time off their sentences by cleaning up a hotel to make it a homeless shelter.

"Unfortunately for them, the hotel happens to be the lair of the character I play in the movie," Kane explained. "As the movie proceeds, the juveniles meet Jacob.

"It's good for Jacob," he added, "but very bad for them."

Unceasingly polite in person, Kane leaves little doubt that inside that muscular frame and bulbous bald skull is an equally sizeable brain. Perhaps that's the reason he chose to make his debut in a WWE production spearheaded by company kingpin Vince McMahon, rather than attempting to go it alone like Hulk Hogan ("Mr. Nanny"), Roddy Piper ("They Live") or Terry Funk ("Over the Top").

"My decision to get into Hollywood is different, in that this is a WWE film," the wrestler said. "This script was written specifically for me by [longtime 'WWE Smackdown!' writer Dan Madigan]. The project was centered around me, which made it very easy to go through the transition of doing what I do in the WWE to making a movie. ... It was very different than when the Rock and Hogan made their transitions to the big screen, in those respects."

He hopes it will be somewhat similar, however, to the way that McMahon charted a course through Hollywood that transformed the Rock into the bankable star he is today.

"Anything that the WWE does, including WWE Films, Vince McMahon is a part of," he said of his boss. "This whole WWE Films idea is his concept, and it's a great concept. You take WWE stars, who are popular and famous on a worldwide level, and put them in a medium where people aren't normally used to seeing them. That's Vince's vision.

"He watched the dailies every day, and I got feedback from him on my performance," Kane said of McMahon's executive producer credit. " 'See No Evil' has Vince's fingerprints all over it."

The cast of attractive, largely unknown "Evil" actors had Kane's fingerprints all over them by the end of the shoot.

"The kids in the movie weren't trained stunt people," he grinned mischievously. "The kids did some of the stunts, and there were some things that happened that they probably don't really want to talk about. I did the best I could, but when the red light's on, stuff happens.

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"There were a couple of mishaps," he said, adding that he just wanted to make it look real whenever Jacob rammed a cell phone down a teen's throat or beat one against the wall like a rolled-up carpet. "Once I left, I heard about what people said on the soundstage. Of course, they weren't going to say that when I was standing right in front of them."

But does Kane have any regrets about leaving the actors a bit beaten up?

"No, absolutely not," he replied. "I think it adds to the realism of the movie."

As does Kane's current persona, which recently switched back from hero to villain to coincide with the flick's villainous character. "Right now, much like Jacob, I'm going through some changes," he admitted. "That's good for the WWE audience, probably very bad for my opponents. I don't know whether I'm a good guy or a bad guy.

"And," he added, "I don't really care."

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